iTWire - Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
The chief technology officer of Canonical, Matt Zimmerman, has put himself in an untenable position after he took a public stance that a remark made by his boss in a...
Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Gawker Matt Zimmerman told Eliot Spitzer 's communication director, Christine Anderson : "If you ever want to get back into TV (and not ABC!) let me know and I can see about openings here." John Cook writes: "The casualness with which he made the offer" -- made while trying to arrange an interview with Spitzer -- "speaks volumes about the relationships between...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
... scholarship, or research." "This seems to be a pretty clear fair use case," said Matt Zimmerman, a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontiers Foundation, which is representing the Yes Men. He called the Chamber's letter a "nastygram" commonly used to scare people into removing stuff from the web. "People will frequently use this provision [of...
Deeplinks (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
... right, protected under copyright law and the First Amendment," said EFF Senior Staff Attorney Matt Zimmerman. "Hopefully, the Chamber will reconsider its position and realize that such strong-arm tactics are inappropriate and counter-productive." For the full text of the letter: http://www.eff.org/files/filenode/ip_freespeech/yesmenletter.pdf For the parody site: http://www.chamber-of-commerce.us...
PC World (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
... with little to no chance of success, do little to address the officers' underlying concerns," Matt Zimmerman , a senior staff attorney with the EFF, wrote in a . "Service provides are not liable because Congress correctly understood that the soap box should not be held responsible for the speech of others. Just as phone companies are not liable for harassing phone calls, or e-mail...
Threat Level (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
... Foundation, which is representing the Yes Men in the copyright dispute. On Thursday, EFF lawyer Matt Zimmerman fired back a response to the Chamber saying the pranksters would not be taking down the page. “It’s hard to argue that this is not for purposes of commentary and criticism, which are protected,” Zimmerman said in a telephone interview. Upon a close read of the online...
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
... on this ridiculous case. We couldn’t have put it better than the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Matt Zimmerman, who wrote : Meritless cases brought by law enforcement officers, amounting to little more than publicity stunts with little to no chance of success, do little to address the officers’ underlying concerns. You might remember how South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster...
The Register (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
"You could make the same argument about the offline world," said Matt Zimmerman, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "You know, every purchase you make should be tracked, we should ban the use of cash, we should put cameras up everywhere because in that massive data collection something might be collected to help someone. But we think privacy is an important...
iTWire - Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
Page 1 of 2The chief technology officer of Canonical, the company founded by open source entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth, has come right out and termed a remark made by his boss at the recent LinuxCon in Portland, Oregon, sexist.Canonical is the parent company of the Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution.CTO Matt Zimmerman, in on his blog, said he had been there in person when Shuttleworth gave...
Roar Lions Roar (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
The status of Princeton tailback Jordan Culbreath was topic #1 for both Columbia Head Coach Norries Wilson and Princeton's Roger Hughes during today's teleconference. Coach Wilson said the Lions will prep this week under the assumption that Culbreath WILL play. He said Columbia will be ready to make changes if he doesn't take the field in the end. He mentioned that he thought the Tigers' fullback Matt...
