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What Copyright Law and Plane Crashes Have in Common
Concurring Opinions - What Copyright Law and Plane Crashes Have in Common: As others have already noted, the Atlantic Monthly is now making its articles available online, including browseable issues going ten years back and select articles through most of the twentieth century. I immediately checked it out to see if one of my favorite […]
January 2008 / 1 min.
MPAA Admits Mistake on Downloading Study
Wired News - MPAA Admits Mistake on Downloading Study: Hollywood laid much of the blame for illegal movie downloading on college students. Now, it says its math was wrong. In a 2005 study it commissioned, the Motion Picture Association of America claimed that 44 percent of the industry’s domestic losses came from illegal downloading of […]
January 2008 / 1 min.
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 in the US annually, employ millions of workers, and represented one-sixth of the total US […]
January 2008 / 1 min.
Judge Orders RIAA to Pay Legal Fees to Falsely Accused Lawsuit Target – the Second Such Ruling
Threat Level from Wired.com - Judge Orders RIAA to Pay Legal Fees to Falsely Accused Lawsuit Target – the Second Such Ruling : A litigation target of the Recording Industry Association of America has been awarded attorney’s fees after the music business falsely sued an Oregon woman for copyright infringement. It is the second time […]
January 2008 / 2 min.
Why the Interdisciplinary Movement in Legal Academia Might be a Bad Idea (For Most Law Schools)
Balkanization - Why the Interdisciplinary Movement in Legal Academia Might be a Bad Idea (For Most Law Schools): Interdisciplinary studies are currently the rage in legal academia. An increasing number of law schools are touting their interdisciplinary programs, which include offering courses from other academic disciplines (economics, statistics, anthropology, etc.) in the law school curriculum, […]
January 2008 / 1 min.
Opinion: 10GB of e-mail could cost you $1M
Computerworld Opinion - 10GB of e-mail could cost you $1M: The growing number of e-discovery requests associated with the recently updated Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) is forcing companies to look for ways to automate their e-discovery process (see “FAQ: Changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedures Affect Storage Plans”).
January 2008 / 1 min.
Three concepts of surveillance in the National Surveillance State
Balkinization - Three concepts of surveillance in the National Surveillance State: In this article with Sandy Levinson and on the pages of this blog I’ve [Professor Balkin] been arguing that the United States is gradually moving from a National Security State to a National Surveillance State, which uses new information technologies and both public action […]
January 2008 / 2 min.
Proof Positive that the Intelligence Oversight System is Hopelessly Compromised
Balkinization - Proof Positive that the Intelligence Oversight System is Hopelessly Compromised: Now that the Harman/Muller letters have been declassified, it is evident that there was no basis for classifying them in the first place. And yet they were classified, as a matter of course. And the classification continued, even after the CIA program was […]
January 2008 / 1 min.
RIAA Behaving Badly; Let’s Cut Their Copyright Privileges
RIAA Behaving Badly; Let’s Cut Their Copyright Privileges - Wolfe’s Den Blog - InformationWeek: Innocent consumers are being bothered by another round of the record industry behaving badly, via more lawsuits and anti-copying threats. This time, though, I’ve got a solution. We should do what we do to children who misbehave: Take away their privileges. […]
January 2008 / 2 min.
Do the U.S. News Rankings Matter?
Law Blog - WSJ.com: Do the U.S. News Rankings Matter?: Cameron Stracher’s essays on the legal profession, which often appear in the WSJ, have been the subject of some of our more provocative posts. Today Stracher, a professor at New York Law, continues his run with a WSJ op-ed picking apart the U.S. News & […]
January 2008 / 1 min.