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Monthly Archives: January 2008
Lotto rape case victory opens gates for compensation
From Time Online (UK) – Lotto rape case victory opens gates for compensation: One woman’s quest for justice against the so-called Lotto rapist ended in victory this morning with a court ruling that paves the way for thousands of sex … Continued
UK High Court Allows Software Patents
Techdirt – UK High Court Follows Bad US Decision To Allow Software Patents: It looks like the UK is about to make the same dangerous mistake that US courts made a while back. A decision there has now stated that … Continued
Copyright Law and Cease-and-Desist Letters
The Volokh Conspiracy has a follow-up to the story about copyrighting cease & desist letters: The court … in this case … did not decide that posting a cease-and-desist letter is copyright infringement (which would have required considering the fair use … Continued
Bush Order Expands Network Monitoring
WaPo – Bush Order Expands Network Monitoring: President Bush signed a directive this month that expands the intelligence community’s role in monitoring Internet traffic to protect against a rising number of attacks on federal agencies’ computer systems. Somehow, I am … Continued
What Copyright Law and Plane Crashes Have in Common
Concurring Opinions – What Copyright Law and Plane Crashes Have in Common: As others have already noted, the Atlantic Monthly is now making its articles available online, including browseable issues going ten years back and select articles through most of … Continued
Court Says You Can Copyright A Cease-And-Desist Letter
Techdirt: Court Says You Can Copyright A Cease-And-Desist Letter: Back in October, we wrote about a law firm that was claiming a copyright on the cease-and-desist letters it sent out, and insisting that it was a violation to repost them. … Continued
MPAA Admits Mistake on Downloading Study
Wired News – MPAA Admits Mistake on Downloading Study: Hollywood laid much of the blame for illegal movie downloading on college students. Now, it says its math was wrong. In a 2005 study it commissioned, the Motion Picture Association of … Continued
Fair use of copyrighted material benefits US economy: report
JURIST – Paper Chase: Fair use of copyrighted material benefits US economy: report: The Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) released a report Wednesday saying that fair use exceptions to US copyright laws create more than $4.5 trillion in revenue … Continued
Judge Orders RIAA to Pay Legal Fees to Falsely Accused Lawsuit Target — the Second Such Ruling
Threat Level from Wired.com – Judge Orders RIAA to Pay Legal Fees to Falsely Accused Lawsuit Target — the Second Such Ruling : A litigation target of the Recording Industry Association of America has been awarded attorney’s fees after the … Continued
Why the Interdisciplinary Movement in Legal Academia Might be a Bad Idea (For Most Law Schools)
Balkanization – Why the Interdisciplinary Movement in Legal Academia Might be a Bad Idea (For Most Law Schools): Interdisciplinary studies are currently the rage in legal academia. An increasing number of law schools are touting their interdisciplinary programs, which include … Continued
Who Protects Your Cloud Data?
Web Worker Daily – Who Protects Your Cloud Data?: Yet in a world of imperfect hardware and software, as well as regulatory and legal issues, choosing one company for storage is still ultimately a gamble. It may be unthinkable that … Continued
Three concepts of surveillance in the National Surveillance State
Balkinization – Three concepts of surveillance in the National Surveillance State: In this article with Sandy Levinson and on the pages of this blog I’ve [Professor Balkin] been arguing that the United States is gradually moving from a National Security … Continued
Opinion: 10GB of e-mail could cost you $1M
Computerworld Opinion – 10GB of e-mail could cost you $1M: The growing number of e-discovery requests associated with the recently updated Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) is forcing companies to look for ways to automate their e-discovery process (see … Continued
Whose bandwidth is being given away?
NetworkWorld.com Community – Whose bandwidth is being given away? : But it’s on the point of ISP terms of service that I believe Schneier’s case falls. First, he expresses no concern whatsoever about others stealing his bandwidth from his open … Continued
Steal This Wi-Fi
Wired Security Matters – Steal This Wi-Fi: Whenever I talk or write about my own security setup, the one thing that surprises people — and attracts the most criticism — is the fact that I run an open wireless network … Continued
