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Google+CNET News.com: Judge on privacy: Computer code trumps the law: Australian High Court Judge Justice Kirby says computer code is more potent than the law — and that legislators are powerless to do anything about it. Technology has outpaced the legal system’s … Continued
Monthly Archives: February 2008
When you die, become an intellectual property donor.
kottke.org: When you die, become an intellectual property donor.: Why let all of your ideas die with you? Current Copyright law prevents anyone from building upon your creativity for 70 years after your death. Live on in collaboration with others. … Continued
High Court Says No to Wiretapping, Yes to Exclusionary Rule
WSJ.com – High Court Says No to Wiretapping, Yes to Exclusionary Rule: Yesterday, the Supreme Court granted cert in a case that, commentators say, gives them an opporunity to carve out more exceptions to the “exclusionary rule,” a criminal procedure … Continued
Freeing America's Operating System
Creative Commons – Freeing America’s Operating System: Last November Carl Malamud’s Public.Resource.Org announced an initiative to free 1.8 million pages of U.S. case law, publishing them online with no restrictions on reuse. Today the results of this initiative are available … Continued
Danish Pirate Bay Block Breaks EU Law
TorrentFreak – Danish Pirate Bay Block Breaks EU Law A crucial factor in the ruling is thus that the ISP commits copyright infringement in their routers when they allow access to The Pirate Bay. An absurd claim of course, and … Continued
Comcast Pledges To Keep Traffic Filters Active
Comcast Pledges To Keep Traffic Filters Active: Comcast, in a reverse effort to Verizon’s well-received neutrality plea, has now stated for the record that it will keep filters active as long as music and video sharing continues to occur within … Continued
The Public Library of Law
The Public Library of Law: What is the Public Library of Law? Searching the Web is easy. Why should searching the law be any different? That’s why Fastcase has created the Public Library of Law — to make it easy … Continued
Starbucks ditches T-Mobile for AT&T
Ubiquitous caffeine conglomerate Starbucks has ended its Wi-Fi partnership with T-Mobile in favor of one with AT&T.
Bush Administration Spending More Taxpayer Money On Intellectual Property Prosecutions
Techdirt – Bush Administration Spending More Taxpayer Money On Intellectual Property Prosecutions: Back when former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was running around pushing for stricter copyright laws, including making “attempted infringement” a crime, we figured that he was just looking … Continued
Law Reviews Get a Bad Review
Law Blog – WSJ.com – Law Reviews Get a Bad Review: The institution of law reviews has always been a great source of puzzlement to the Law Blog. As a 2L, the sunny afternoons we labored away blue-booking articles were—we’re … Continued
To bug or not to bug?
Times Online – To bug or not to bug?: Fury and outrage – but not surprise – were the emotions expressed by most criminal lawyers this week to the disclosure in The Times that a solicitor’s conversation with his client, … Continued
Lords refuse to continue hearing case against Simon Mann
Times Online – Lords refuse to continue hearing case against Simon Mann: A landmark case collapsed in unprecedented fashion today as the House of Lords refused to continue hearing a claim brought by Equatorial Guinea against the alleged plotters of … Continued
Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign and Yahoo! all join OpenID
Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign and Yahoo! all join OpenID: This morning the OpenID Foundation announced that Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign, and Yahoo! have joined the board. The OpenID Foundation was formed in early 2006 by seven community members with the … Continued
Is Facebook Your "Permanent Record?"
ReadWriteWeb – Is Facebook Your “Permanent Record?”: The internet is not like a diary, although many people use online journals, blogs, and social networking sites to share their innermost thoughts, feelings, and secrets with the world. With a hardbound diary, … Continued
Law lords to rule whether decision to invade Iraq warrants inquiry
Guardian – Law lords to rule whether decision to invade Iraq warrants inquiry: Questions about the legality of Tony Blair’s decision to join the US in invading Iraq will come under the spotlight before a rarely convened panel of nine … Continued
Should we fight the proprietary open source power?
Open Source | ZDNet.com – Should we fight the proprietary open source power?: Mr. Buzzword for February appears to be proprietary open source. This is an open source project which is owned or controlled by one company. Even though it … Continued
