Media Creation & Consumption is Challenging Traditional Legal Notions
At a time when media creation and consumption has transformed, two recent cases, both involving Fox News Network on opposite sides of the "fair use" defense to copyright infringement, highlight the evolving and dynamic legal challenges facing business and content creators. In each case, Fox News loses on Summary Judgment.
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University determined your Smartphone shares your location once every 3 minutes!
A recent study released by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University - discussed in the Wall Street Journal - followed daily Android smartphone use by 23 people over a two week period. Using specially-designed software, the researchers observed location data requests from each device during normal daily use. Shockingly, researchers discovered that many popular Android apps shared location data information about every three minutes. This revelation prompted Norman M. Sadeh, a Carnegie Mellon professor who co-wrote the study to ask "Does Groupon really need to know where you are every 20 minutes?"
Read the story on the Wall Street Journal Digits Blog here.
COCA-COLA IS LOOKING FOR YOUR START-UP
How would you like to do business with this global brand?
How would you like to do business with Coca-Cola? Well according to the company's vice president of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Coca-Cola is looking for you. In his new book, Design to Grow, David Butler explains how Coca-Cola uses design to grow its business by combining the advantages of scale with the agility to respond to fast-changing market conditions.
The book is filled with case studies, lessons and words of wisdom from his time at the company. He learned quickly inside of Coke that the word innovation means different things to different people. The book focuses on two things every company needs to grow: the ability to scale and the ability to be agile. Large companies have scale. Start-ups have agility. Pick up the book to explore how the world's most recognizable brand manages to do both.
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