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Google+For my “professional responsibility” class here in Hawai’i during the summer, my class is reading Broken Trust: Greed, Mismanagement, And Political Manipulation at America’s Largest Charitable Trust: the Bishop Estate in Hawai’i. So far, the book—jointly written by our professor, … Continued
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Zotero Gets More Legal
Zotero, the Firefox extension for managing research and citations, has expanded support for legal materials: We are excited to announce a set of seven new translators of particular interest to those who study law. Zotero users can now automatically capture … Continued
Search Warrants Required for Email (Maybe)
Freedom to Tinker notes: The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday, in Warshak v. U.S., that people have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their email, so that the government needs a search warrant or similar process to access … Continued
CIA and the Freedom of Information Act
The CIA has established this site to provide the public with an overview of access to CIA information, including electronic access to previously released documents. Because of CIA’s need to comply with the national security laws of the United States, … Continued
On Intellectual Property
Image via Wikipedia Lawrence Lessig writes: Physical property and the intangible property we call copyright are different. Jefferson pointed to one difference. But the really crucial difference that I’ve been trying to get people to see is that physical property … Continued
Is it OK to Share my WiFi? (Comcast)
So, with the growth of FON and Whisher, not to mention more informal sharing between neighbors, the question arises: is this legally acceptable from the perspective of the broadband subscriber? (Note: please do not rely on this for legal advice. … Continued
FISA/CALEA and "Lawful Intercept" Technologies
As I noted earlier, May 14th was the official deadline for CALEA compliance for a number of industries. How, you may be wondering, does one implement such a thing? These solutions are typically divided into three key functions: access, mediation … Continued
Tim Wu, "On Copyright's Authorship Policy"
Tim Wu, professor at Columbia Law School, has an intriguing paper available entitled, “On Copyright’s Authorship Policy”: It has long been the stated aspiration of copyright to make authors the masters of their own destiny. Yet more often than not, … Continued
Blog Redesign
in propria persona has been on temporary hiatus for a week or two while I finished finals and worked on my law review competition entry (due on Tuesday). Since this involved considerable mental energy, I’ve kept myself amused through a … Continued
My Top 10 Free Blogging Tools
1. ZoneEdit Without ZoneEdit, I wouldn’t have a custom domain… they provide the DNS hosting that changes ekris.org into a machine-preferred IP address. And it’s free. And reliable (if not pretty). 2. Google Apps Google Apps hosts my main page, … Continued
YouTube as a PR Outlet
The Flack posts an insightful look into the use of YouTube for PR battles in article entitled “The Beeb Battles Back“: One technique we used to counter the news program’s growing quest for drama entailed taping the taping. In exchange … Continued
Jurisdiction and the Internet: CivPro meets the Web
Brett Trout (of Blawg IT) writes in “Internet Jurisdiction: Win the Battle, Win the War“: Internet law opens up more jurisdictional possibilities than probably any other area of the law. Even if the other side may have a better potential … Continued
"NFL fumbles DMCA takedown battle, could face sanctions"
It’s no secret that some content owners don’t seem to understand how the DMCA works — that, or they simply don’t care when sending mass takedown notices. This seems to be the case with the recent saga of legal maneuvers between the … Continued
Reminder: Monday is Wiretap the Internet Day
Kevin Poulsen notes on Threat Level – Wired Blogs that May 14th is the official deadline for cable modem companies, DSL providers, broadband over powerline, satellite internet companies and some universities to finish wiring up their networks with FBI-friendly surveillance … Continued
Followup on digg.com, AACS, and "laws for bloggers"
In an interesting article entitled “Digg This?: What Laws Must We Obey?” at “The Faculty Blog” from the University of Chicago, a law professor not intimately involved with the DMCA and Web 2.0 writes: As to law, as Digg‘s attorneys … Continued
Done with Criminal Law, on to Contracts and Immigration
As my Criminal Law exam is now over, I am now focusing on updating my Contracts materials on Notes from Law School. I’ll also be creating new materials regarding my Immigration class.
