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A non-profit company, Hispanics Union of Buffalo, Inc. was actually instructed to rehire 5 people that it dismissed just for complaining in regards to a co-worker on Facebook, as well as pay them back salary. The actual expenses of the social media mistake is often rather high, especially if you take into account attorneys’ fees. When it comes to HUB, HUB hadn’t retained replacement employees, but for a lot of organizations the firing of employees, who had engaged in protected concerted activity would also mean salary or overtime to get the work of the fired employees done.

The U.S. Copyright Office soon will look into a request that could effectively render content security on DVD inconsequential. Every few years the Copyright Office hears requests intended for exceptions towards the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and this time around the open public electronic advocacy organization Public Knowledge is really asking for the government to legalize the ability for consumers to render backups of DVDs protected with content scrambling system replicate protection programs.

Wikipedia is going to go down for 24-hours in order to demonstrate the U.S. anti-piracy laws – (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA). Worst-case situations of the projected new laws are actually being discussed. The Electronic Frontier Foundation speculates, “Instead of complying with the DMCA, a copyright owner may now be able to use these new provisions to effectively shut down a site by cutting off access to its domain name, its search engine hits, its ads, and its other financing even if the safe harbors would apply.”