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Google+Image via Wikipedia Marketplace on NPR: Will this IPO translate into turnaround?: Rosetta Stone, the language software maker, is one of the few companies to file an IPO this year. With a strong market debut, will other companies follow suit? … Continued
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Microsoft Gets Slammed in Yet Another Patent Suit
Image via Wikipedia Microsoft Gets Slammed in Yet Another Patent Suit – Law Blog – WSJ: In what’s being billed as the fifth-largest patent award in history—and the second largest this year—a federal jury in Rhode Island on Wednesday ordered … Continued
Consumers and Copyright: Thoughts about reforming the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is much maligned, but, I think, not fully understood by very many people. Today, a visitor to our Software Law class from Microsoft presented a very good explanation of the 1998 law. He explained … Continued
Computer Programming and the Law: A New Research Agenda
Image by PanelSwitchman via Flickr Computer Programming and the Law: A New Research Agenda | Freedom to Tinker: By my best estimate, at least twenty different law professors on the tenure track at American law schools once held a job … Continued
Against Intellectual Monopoly
Against Intellectual Monopoly, a book by by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine, two economists who have proposed abolishing copyrights and patents: It is common to argue that intellectual property in the form of copyright and patent is necessary for … Continued
That Was the Copyright Year That Was (2008)
Image via Wikipedia That Was the Copyright Year That Was by Bruce E. Boyden of Marquette University Law School: I recently compiled a list of the biggest developments in copyright law in 2008, based on a not very systematic survey. … Continued
Copyright Fight Brewing Over Amazon's Kindle 2
Copyright Fight Brewing Over Amazon’s Kindle 2 | Threat Level from Wired.com: “They don’t have the right to read a book out loud,” said Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild. “That’s an audio right, which is derivative under … 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
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
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
Is the Golden Age of Patent Litigation Coming To an End?
WSJ Law Blog – Is the Golden Age of Patent Litigation Coming To an End? That’s the weighty question keeping us up last night as we contemplated In Re Stephen Comiskey, the latest in a string of rulings that has … Continued
Software Freedom Law Center Files GPL Lawsuit
On Behalf of BusyBox Developers, SFLC Files First Ever U.S. GPL Violation Lawsuit: The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) today announced that it has filed the first ever U.S. copyright infringement lawsuit based on a violation of the GNU General … Continued
Patent Reform
An update on patent reform legislation working its way through Congress right now. An interesting amendment (from the comments on Patently-O) includes the following: [The] banning of patents on “tax planning methods.” These are defined, inter alia, as any invention … Continued
Why are lawyers miserable: want a list? – Times Online
Why are lawyers miserable: want a list? – Times Online: the dehumanising hours. the yawning gap between their intelligence and the mind-numbing nature of their work. At least if you flipped burgers for a living you’d have the satisfaction of … Continued
Two Approaches to Community WiFi Sharing
Two different, broad-based approaches to community-based WiFi sharing: Whisher You don’t need to leave your WiFi open in order to share it with others. Simply enable encryption on your access point or router (WEP/WPA) and Whisher will do the rest. … 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
