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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 ability to regulate its use in matters of privacy and fair use rights, said Kirby, […]
February 2008 / 1 min.
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. Make an intellectual property donation. By donating your IP into the public domain you will […]
February 2008 / 1 min.
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 doctrine that excludes evidence obtained from an unlawful search. At the same time, the Court, […]
February 2008 / 1 min.
Freeing America’s Operating System
Creative Commons - Freeing AmericaaEUR™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 at http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/. From the press release (pdf): TodayaEUR™s release covers all U.S. Supreme Court decisions […]
February 2008 / 2 min.
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 even more serious, it opposes the Infosoc Directive, that formed the basis of the Danish […]
February 2008 / 1 min.
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 to find the law online. PLoL is the largest free law library in the world, […]
February 2008 / 1 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.
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 a failed coup because it will not allow one of the defendants to meet with […]
February 2008 / 1 min.