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Google+The New York Times writes: A who’s who of technology and telecommunications companies announced Wednesday that it intended to build the first of a new generation of nationwide wireless data networks. The consortium includes a disparate group of partners: Sprint … Continued
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Open Source, Open Access, and Open Transfer: Market Approaches to Research Bottlenecks
The Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property has accepted a paper I co-authored with Professor Robin Feldman of UC Hastings School of Law. The name of the piece is Open Source, Open Access, and Open Transfer: Market Approaches … Continued
More Free and Open Source Law Resources
Concurring Opinions – More Free and Open Source Law Resources: Law.com has a good summary of the way projects seeking to make opinions, statutes, and other legal materials free. The history of these efforts goes back to the early 90s, … Continued
Australian judge on privacy: Computer code trumps the law
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
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
Social Networks – Why You Should Care
Slaw: Social Networks – Why You Should Care: How can you leverage emerging knowledge about social networking? Here are some suggestions: Use social sites for screening applicants Use social sites for alumni (Hill and Knowlton and Siemens did this instead … Continued
FCC Considers New Technology Mandates, Threatening Innovation and Privacy
CDT – FCC Considers New Technology Mandates, Threatening Innovation and Privacy: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is actively considering whether to adopt technology mandates that have the potential to significantly harm innovation and privacy on the Internet. Two ongoing proceedings—one … 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
The Right to Bear Ar–, Or Is It Access the Internet?
The Right to Bear Ar — , Or Is It Access the Internet?: All of these events [in Burma a.k.a. Myanmar] make we wonder whether the Bill of Rights would explicitly state that there is a right to free access and distribution … Continued
Justice Not Blind Blog
A new blog I found recently (via BlogCatalog), focusing on law and the use of technology in law: Justice Not Blind. As a current MS Word for Mac user (and hating it!), I’m going to be very curious how the … Continued
Clearwire Wireless Broadband Review
Clearwire (NASDAQ: CLWR) is a broadband Internet Service Provider with a twist: it’s wireless. The sleek Clearwire modems use a licensed 2.5 GHz technology (not line-of-sight) instead of the standard, unlicensed 2.4 GHz frequency of 802.11 WiFi devices, and in … Continued
Top 10 Steps to Make the U.S. House More Open
The Open House Project is working to open up the U.S. House to new technologies of Web-based access: We’re trying to find the least intrusive ways to open up the House, the low-hanging fruit where the internet and Congressional procedures … Continued
Laws for Bloggers
Laws apply to bloggers too. Resources that help make rights and responsibilities clear are always helpful, and this article is a useful compendium of twelve of the more important issues to bear in mind when blogging. While the Internet still … Continued
AACS
In an attempt to capture some of the current AACS (Advanced Access Content System, copy-restriction technology for new-format DVDs) controversy, here is some background information. The whole controversy started when someone managed to figure out what the 16-digit hexadecimal key … Continued
Remote Computing Services (Part II)
[T]he term “remote computing service” is defined in the ECPA as “the provision to the public of computer storage or processing services by means of an electronic communication system.” 18 U.S.C. § 2711(2). The statute’s legislative history explains that such … Continued
EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers
But here’s the important part: None of this should stop you from blogging. Freedom of speech is the foundation of a functioning democracy, and Internet bullies shouldn’t use the law to stifle legitimate free expression. That’s why EFF created this … Continued
