Regardless of your moral outlook, porn is a serious and growing sociological ill. It may not be the same type of problem as crystal meth, child predators, or terrorism. But it is a problem–and one that will get an order of magnitude worse when AR eyewear hits the market. How Internet Porn Affects Society Today[...]
Augmented Reality Eyewear & the Problem of Porn
Filed Under: Augmented Reality Tagged With: body recognition, eyewear, Jordan Yerman, mental health, porn, Project Glass, Thomas Traherne, YouTube
High School Ok’d to Suspend Student for Rapping About “Dirty” Coaches
Thursday, March 22, 2012 By Brian Wassom
To the surprise of exactly no one, kids are continuing to post material online that adults find inappropriate. Schools keep punishing them for it, and several parents are continuing to sue in response. The most recent example comes to us from Itawamba County, Mississippi. On March 15, 2012, in Bell v. Itawamba County School Board,[...]
Filed Under: Social Media Tagged With: facebook, First Amendment, Itawamba County, matters of public concern, Mississippi, public high school, public school, rap, school violence, social media, suspension, Taylor Bell, Tinker v. Des Moines, YouTube
Feb.15 Webinar: Social Media Legal Implications for Health Care Providers
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 By Brian Wassom
On Wednesday, February 15, my colleagues Linda Ross and Mary Pate and I will be presenting on this topic in a webinar sponsored by the Michigan Health & Hospital Association (MHA). More information and a registration form are available here. This is our second time presenting to the MHA’s constituency, but the substance of our[...]
Filed Under: Social Media Tagged With: facebook, health care, Linda Ross, LinkedIn, Mary Pate, MHA, Michigan Health & Hospital Association, social media law, twitter, YouTube
5 Predictions for Augmented Reality Law in 2012
Tuesday, January 3, 2012 By Brian Wassom
This could finally be the year that the public begins to see augmented reality as a serious, important technology. Lance Ulanoff, the editor-in-chief at Mashable, certainly thinks so. He listed AR as the first of “5 Tech Trends to Watch in 2012.” “Trust me,” he wrote, “by 2013, you’ll be hard-pressed to find anyone who[...]
Filed Under: Augmented Reality, IP Tagged With: Apple, Copyright, daqri, eyewear, Joe Rampolla, licensing, Mashable, negligence, patent, personal injury, Pink Visual, porn, Siri, Trademark & Unfair Competition, YouTube
Posting Videos of Police on YouTube: Protected by the First Amendment?
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 By Brian Wassom
In its Aug. 26, 2011 opinion Glik v. Cunniffe, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit became the latest court to rule that the First Amendment allows citizens to record police officers acting in the line of duty. Of course, people have been recording cops since at least 1991, when George Holliday’s video[...]
Filed Under: Social Media Tagged With: Anthony Graber, eavesdropping, Emory A. Plitt, Eyez, George Holliday, Glik v. Cunniffe, Oscar Grant, police, privacy, Rodney King, wiretapping, YouTube
Social Media and Student Discipline in Public Schools
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 By Brian Wassom
If there is a boundary, count on high school students to test it. And with the advent of social media, now the entire world–not to mention their school administrators and the rest of their student body–can watch them do it. Hundreds, probably thousands, of public middle and high school students have been disciplined for material[...]
Filed Under: Social Media Tagged With: Bong Hits 4 Jesus, Coulmbine, discipline, disruption, DJM v. Hannibal, Doninger v. Niehoff, Evans v. Bayer, facebook, First Amendment, free speech, harassment, JC v. Beverly hills, JS v. Blue Mountain, Kowalski v. Berkeley, Layshock v. Hermitage, Mean Girls, MySpace, OZ v. Long Beach, Requa v. Kent, school, school discipline, school violence, student, student speech, teacher, Tinker v. Des Moines, TV v. Smith-Green, YouTube
Public Companies, Social Media, and SEC Regulation FD
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 By Brian Wassom
Public companies are using social media to amplify the impact of their public statements and increase shareholder engagement. For example, companies are “live tweeting” (i.e., posting updates to Twitter in real time as an event is happening) their earning calls and annual meetings. A social media site called StockTwits curates such information in real time.[...]
Filed Under: Social Media Tagged With: CME Group, facebook, investor relations, LinkedIn, public companies, Reg FD, retweet, SEC, StockTwits, twitter, YouTube
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