Hinds-Radix, Corporation Counsel, New York (Karin Wolfe of counsel), for respondents.Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Mitchell J. [read post]

While the “top end” of the market might sort its own house out in the negotiable world of IP without further regulation (see the protracted Viacom v YouTube saga, which could be seen as a very expensive game of blind negotiator’s bluff) other areas were (still) less amenable to self regulation.Privacy was identified very early on as an outstanding example of this: getting sites like Facebook and Google, which live off the profits of selling their client’s personal… [read post]