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Sharing Is Airing: Employee Concerted Activity On Social Media After Hispanics United, Ryan Kennedy
Sharing Is Airing: Employee Concerted Activity On Social Media After Hispanics United, Ryan Kennedy
Duke Law & Technology Review
Section 7 of the United States’ National Labor Relations Act allows groups of American workers to engage in concerted activity for the purposes of collective bargaining or for “other mutual aid or protection.” This latter protection has been extended in cases such as Lafayette Park Hotel to workers outside the union context. Starting in 2005, the National Labor Relations Board increasingly signaled to employers that concerted activity may take place on social media such as Facebook. However, the Board proper delivered its first written opinion articulating these rules in the 2012 case of Hispanics United of Buffalo, Inc. There, the …
Mega, Digital Storage Lockers, And The Dmca: Will Innovation Be Stifled By Fears Of Piracy?, Ali V. Mirsaidi
Mega, Digital Storage Lockers, And The Dmca: Will Innovation Be Stifled By Fears Of Piracy?, Ali V. Mirsaidi
Duke Law & Technology Review
Kim Dotcom, founder of Megaupload Limited, has been in many news headlines over the past year. Megaupload—one of Dotcom’s many peer-to-peer sharing sites—was the center of controversy, as it allowed users to upload and share all sorts of files, including copyrighted material. After an organized effort by the Department of Justice and several foreign governments, Dotcom was arrested for (secondary) copyright infringement and his site was ultimately shut down. Dotcom has recently launched a new service, MEGA, which he claims will evade copyright laws entirely. Like other well-known cloud-sharing services such as Dropbox and Google Drive, MEGA allows users to …