EU European Commission to Revise Competition Rules to Foster Technical Standards in Cross-Border Trade in Digital Goods and Services

Out-Law.com at Pinsent Masons LLP reports that:

Commission to revise rules on agreements among rivals to foster technical standards | Pinsent Masons LLP:

"The European Commission will revise its rules on agreements between competitors to help companies to agree on technical standards, it has said. The move is designed to help encourage cross-border trade in digital goods and services."

Read the report at Out-Law.com.

Viral Marketing in Law? Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn?

Viral Marketing in Law? Should Lawyers be Playing with Social Media?

Law Firms: Should You be On Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn?
asks Liza Salazar at 3 Geeks and a Law Blog.

Nice read. You decide.

Germany is Wunderbar (Wonderful) : A New UK Website (in English) for Tourism and Travel in Germany

Germany is Wunderbar writes:

"Germany is Wunderbar is a new kind of website for people who want to see more of Germany, and who are looking for good ideas."

Check it out if you are taking a vacation to Germany or otherwise traveling there for business or pleasure:

German travel, tourism guide - Germany is Wunderbar

UK: United Kingdom Copyright Reform: Laws to be Reviewed to Make them Fit for the Internet Age : Announcement Prime Minister David Cameron : BBC News

This is quite brilliant.
Some good news about "creative innovation" in America as a model for the UK legal system.

BBC News UK reports that United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that
UK copyright laws to be reviewed:

"Speaking at an event in the East End of London, at which he announced a series of investments by IT giants including Facebook and Google, Mr Cameron said the founders of Google had told the government they could not have started their company in Britain.

'Fair use'

He said: "The service they provide depends on taking a snapshot of all the content on the internet at any one time and they feel our copyright system is not as friendly to this sort of innovation as it is in the United States.

"Over there, they have what are called 'fair-use' provisions, which some people believe gives companies more breathing space to create new products and services.

"So I can announce today that we are reviewing our IP laws, to see if we can make them fit for the internet age. I want to encourage the sort of creative innovation that exists in America.""

Read the rest here.

Newton scandal shows game stays same - College Football - Rivals.com

In our opinion, Dan Wetzel at Yahoo Sports Rivals.com writes some of the best sports commentaries, and this one is a really good one. Read Newton scandal shows game stays same - College Football - Rivals.com. It is time that anachronistic and outdated ideas about "amateurism" be locked up in some drawer in the back stacks of the library, and that Congress and the NCAA draft an "amateur" law that provides some sensible leeway for players and all the other small fish involved in the "big business" of college football and all other so-called "amateur" sports which no longer are as in "the good old days" before the commercialization of sports.

As Weztel writes:

"This is the real business of college football and only the most naive inside the sport even pretend that it is not.

It’s happening nearly everywhere with nearly everyone because no amount of NCAA legislation can stop the wheels of capitalism....

In the end this is the same old story. College football’s power brokers write a bunch of lip-service rules in an effort to maintain the sports’ “amateurism” so they can continue to beat federal, state and local taxes....

[T]his is the confusing world the players operate in. Everyone’s making money but them. Everyone’s offering money to them. Yet if word breaks that anyone anywhere near them took any money, it’s their reputation that gets trampled."

Read the whole thing here.