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Copywrong Again: Founding the Next Pinterest or Napster?

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Copyright is not the only type of IP right implicated — and others such as rights of privacy and publicity become increasingly relevant in the age of social media — but it provides many of the most accessible examples. Let’s use Pinterest as a case study.

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Keep It Under Your Hat: Valuation Caps and the $650 Million Sale of MySpace for $125 Million

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Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team.

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“AirB&E” and Disaster Response for Consumer Startups

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I give Mark Zuckerberg tremendous credit for that accomplishment, together with Sheryl Sandberg and the rest of Facebook’s senior team. Compare notes with the rest of the team, and with external experts if possible, to see what you might be missing. In the age of social media, word travels lightning fast of this kind of incident.

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