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Jeff reports on patents, copyright, privacy and other legal issues affecting the development of online media.
Prior to joining paidContent in August 2011, he worked as a reporter for Reuters in Paris and New York. He has also practiced law and passed the bar exam in New York and Ontario.
Jeff lives in Brooklyn and likes hiking, bourbon and baseball.
jeffjohnroberts 1 hour, 49 minutes Ago
Insurer needs court order to use facial recognition technology re Vancouver rioters h/t @VBalasubramani http://t.co/OF8Xw1G2
jeffjohnroberts 2 hours, 54 minutes Ago
Here's the Economist's take on FRAND patents and the mobile industry.. A good summary w/o the FOSS astroturf http://t.co/qrOEdqDU
jeffjohnroberts 3 hours, 23 minutes Ago
Here's a worthy piece on telling social media stories with Storify, inclu how NOT to use it @rww http://t.co/kIrdz3lY
jeffjohnroberts 18 hours, 34 minutes Ago
Lawyers already smell blood in Google Browser-gate.. There's gotta be a better way to solve this privacy stuff
http://t.co/S6pC3CYf
jeffjohnroberts 19 hours, 52 minutes Ago
Redbox to pay $6 million over hiding its access-to-content problems; Netlix still facing similar investor suit http://t.co/0ACndQpX
jeffjohnroberts 21 hours, 49 minutes Ago
Clever Comcast fights cord cutters, kicks Netflix w/new subscriber service. via my GigaOM colleague @ryanlawler http://t.co/5TPwV7hC
jeffjohnroberts 1 Day, 1 hour, 20 minutes Ago
Good news for newspapers: More than half of the 6 million users on Guardian's Facebook app are under 25! http://t.co/sE5IwQEY
jeffjohnroberts 1 Day, 1 hour, 34 minutes Ago
Sick of crummy Godfather sequels, Paramount wants court to give Puzo family offer it can't refuse http://t.co/sE5IwQEY
jeffjohnroberts 1 Day, 2 hours, 8 minutes Ago
Report confirms you can't shoot the messenger over user content But watch out for the IP backdoor @cathygellis http://t.co/V3zsFT2a
jeffjohnroberts 1 Day, 3 hours, 16 minutes Ago
Eternal copyright: extend CR to Shakespeare's heirs and the 'entire Jewish race' for the Old Testament? h/t @mathewi http://t.co/lMCDfvvy
jeffjohnroberts 1 Day, 4 hours, 23 minutes Ago
Romney's people are using copyright, other legal threats to shut up everyone from Forbes to local bloggers. Salon: http://t.co/fVeQOy9G
jeffjohnroberts 1 Day, 11 hours, 55 minutes Ago
@jonathanmayer I'm the legal reporter for paidContnet/GigaOM..Curious on your interactions with MS, WSJ et al.. Do you have time for a chat?
jeffjohnroberts 1 Day, 12 hours, 11 minutes Ago
RT @crgrpr: Copy editor Cormac McCarthy reportedly says exclamation points and semicolons "have no place in literature." http://t.co/kf4jtrN1
jeffjohnroberts 3 days, 20 hours, 47 minutes Ago
RT @om: 3 exhilarating, magical, amazing days with @gigaom + @paidContent teams r a founder dream come true. Look forward 2 building our future
jeffjohnroberts 4 days, 20 hours, 44 minutes Ago
Big legal win for Facebook against spammer that scraped address books.. http://t.co/6TWxTB3i
jeffjohnroberts 4 days, 23 hours, 8 minutes Ago
RT @dannysullivan: Amazing how WSJ overhyped Google-Safari story to degree that Google's getting bigger pass than otherwise would have http://t.co/yEGxqHEJ
jeffjohnroberts 5 days, 21 hours, 43 minutes Ago
WSJ media honcho reads the news thru iPad and Twitter, concedes he can't keep up http://t.co/epqCKRzq h/t @mathewi
jeffjohnroberts 1 week, 36 minutes Ago
Publishers take down 2 overseas piracy sites.. Book folks embracing music industry style legal tactics http://t.co/L7gNM4tp
jeffjohnroberts 1 week, 1 hour, 54 minutes Ago
Prof Tim Wu explains new TV device Aereo and how cable co's will sharpen copyright knives to whack it: http://t.co/mHZKUONK
jeffjohnroberts 1 week, 15 hours, 58 minutes Ago
Thx @chiefmaverick! RT Another must read by @jeffjohnroberts: Fair Use Or Free Riding? The AP’s New Attack On News Scraping
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