It isn’t every company whose legal and personnel departments get covered by the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. Then again, as it’s often been said Google isn’t your typical company.
The New York Times did a through review of Google’s many intellectual property legal fights which will probably be familiar to anyone who has been following the company closely. Still, there was one interesting statistic in the story. Google had one — yes, one — lawyer back in the dark ages of 2001. Now, it has nearly 100 plus a slew of outside legal help, the Times said. The headline “We’re Google So Sue Us” pretty much says it all. What prompted the article was Google’s recent acquisition of YouTube, which is grappling with its own complaints about the misuse of copyrighted material. Google General Counsel David Drummond continues to insist that the company is covered by the safe harbor provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Billionaire blogger Mark Cuban takes another approache on his Blog Maverick site today, arguing that many of the big cable and satellite providers could create a “legal”‘ version of the popular Web site. The question I have is when will this happen.
Speaking of time, anyone who is thinking of applying to Google better be patient. The Journal says that applicants wenr through an average of 5.1 in-person interviews in June, down from 6.2 at the start of the year. (Just what constitutes a fraction of an interview?) More importantly for Google, however, is keeping its high standards as it growth continues to skyrocket. Back in the old days, applicants got to interview with one of the Google guys, but now they just review all of the job offers.
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