Jason Schultz

Jason Schultz Thinks Americans Care about Online Privacy

The San Francisco Chronicle, April 19, 2010 by Alejandro Martínez-Cabrera
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/19/BUE71CRF1B.DTL&type=printable

“I think people care a lot. All you need to do is go and ask them if they’ll give you the keys of their house and let you look through every drawer or see all the text messages in their phone, and you’ll find they’ll care a lot about their privacy,” said Jason Schultz, acting director of UC Berkeley’s Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic.

Jason Schultz Weighs in on Apple’s Patent Lawsuit against HTC

-CNET, March 4, 2010 by Marguerite Reardon
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/03/04/cnet.apple.patent/

“If Apple just wants to push one competitor out of the way, then it may not implicate Google or Microsoft at all,” said Jason Schultz…. “But if they are staking out their turf and letting everyone know that they own the whole touchscreen smartphone market, then there will be a showdown.”

-San Francisco Chronicle, March 8, 2010 by Ryan Kim
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/08/BUD11CBFSR.DTL&type=printable

“It’s economics. There’s a ton of money flowing into the mobile space; it’s the new platform,” said Jason Schultz…. “Laptops, many think, are a thing of the past. Anytime you have a platform shift, you’re going to have a lot of lawsuits over who owns the platform.”

Jason Schultz Raises Privacy Concerns about Google Book Settlement

Freeculture.org, September 30, 2009 by Jason Schultz
http://freeculture.org/blog/2009/09/30/gbs-and-students-schultz-privacy/

Despite Google’s assurances that they “take our privacy commitments to our users very seriously,” there are open questions about how much information they will collect on readers who use GBS, whether that information will be used in conjunction with other Google Services (such as its advertising services), how long they will keep the information, and under what circumstances they will disclose it to third parties, such as the government or those involved in civil lawsuits.

Jason Schultz Believes Libraries Will Retain Value Even as Books Go Digital

CNN.com, September 4, 2009 by John D. Sutter
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/09/04/future.library.technology/

Jason M. Schultz, director of the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic…. said libraries always have served two roles in society: They’re places where people can get free information; and they’re community centers for civic debate. As books become more available online, that community-center role will become increasingly important for libraries, he said. “It depends on whether we prioritize it as a funding matter, but I think there always will be a space for that even if all the resources are digital,” he said.

Jason Schultz Launches ″Cyberlaw Cases″ Blog

Berkeleyan, September 3, 2009 by Kathleen Maclay
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/09/03_cyberlawblog.shtml

“No other blog does this,” said Cyberlaw Cases blogger Jason M. Schultz, an assistant clinical professor of law and director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic. “There are blogs that talk about Internet-related cases, but none that rank them to help readers focus on where the significant decisions will emerge.”

Jason Schultz Puts Google Book Settlement in Historical Perspective

CNET News, August 29, 2009 by Tom Krazit
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10321371-265.html

If the class action settlement is approved, Google stands to gain control of a priceless asset. Jason Schultz, acting director of UC Berkeley’s Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic, called it “the largest copyright-licensing deal in U.S. history”: the right to display the contents of out-of-print books that are still covered by copyright protection.

Jason Schultz Notes Downside of Internet Patents

The Recorder, July 17, 2009 by Zusha Elinson
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202432339946&

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Jason Schultz, an IP lawyer at UC Berkeley School of Law, said Cordance’s Internet commerce patent on an “object-based online transaction infrastructure” is “just as suspect” as the Amazon 1-click patent.… “This is the hard lesson that Amazon learned and that a lot of software companies learn,” Schultz said. “You think these patents are great when you own them, but really it’s a minefield.”

Jason Schultz Helps Answer Slate’s Michael Jackson FAQ

Slate.com Explainer, June 26, 2009 by Brian Palmer
http://www.slate.com/id/2221408/

Could he have licensed his dance moves? Only the more complicated sequences. Since 1976, federal law has allowed for the copyrighting of “pantomimes and choreographic works” but not of isolated dance steps. So while Michael Jackson could surely have safeguarded the rights to the “Thriller” video choreography, he likely could not have licensed the moonwalk. (Besides, the moonwalk was probably not an original work.) Jackson does hold a patent on the specialized shoes he used in the leaning sequence of the “Smooth Criminal” video…. The Explainer thanks … Jason Schultz of Berkeley Law School.