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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.
February 2008 / 2 min.
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 for some sort of distraction from the Congressional investigation concerning some of his other actions […]
February 2008 / 1 min.
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 pretty certain–among the most ill-spent hours of our law-school career. And yet we can’t deny […]
February 2008 / 1 min.
To bug or not to bug?
Times Online - To bug or not to bug?: Fury and outrage aEUR” but not surprise aEUR” were the emotions expressed by most criminal lawyers this week to the disclosure in The Times that a solicitoraEUR™s conversation with his client, a prisoner serving life, had been bugged by the police. The UK is almost alone […]
February 2008 / 1 min.
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 goal of helping promote, protect and enabling the OpenID technologies and community. TodayaEUR™s announcement marks […]
February 2008 / 1 min.
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, you only had to be afraid of your little brother finding it under your mattress; […]
February 2008 / 2 min.
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 may have a GPL license, you have no more power over it than a single […]
February 2008 / 1 min.
Inmate Requests Test Public Records Law
The Associated Press - Inmate Requests Test Public Records Law: An arsonist imprisoned for firebombing the cars of two lawyers is using his remaining 19 years behind bars to dig up information on the judges, lawyers and corrections officers who helped put him there. But Allan Parmelee’s hundreds of requests under the state’s Public Records […]
February 2008 / 1 min.
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 the Patent Office shouldn’t automatically reject patent apps on software. Although I am in general […]
January 2008 / 1 min.
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 defense). Rather, the court was only asked to decide whether the plaintiff could use a subpoena (under […]
January 2008 / 1 min.