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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, but the recent changes may the ones to threaten the big shots. According to the […]
March 2008 / 1 min.
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.
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.
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 of creating their own internal alumni databases) Use social sites for recruitment (Ernst & Young […]
January 2008 / 1 min.
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 involving a small part of the ongoing Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) saga […]
October 2007 / 1 min.
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 chipped away at patent holdersaEUR™ rights and reflects the growing concern over the patent-litigation boom. […]
October 2007 / 1 min.
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 of information over the Internet had the American Revolution occurred today. Now before everyone gets […]
September 2007 / 1 min.
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 editor’s experiment with Pages works out!
August 2007 / 1 min.
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 my testing, seemed to perform quite well. (Please note: I tested out their service as […]
August 2007 / 3 min.
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 come together. Their report to Representative Pelosi identifies 10 steps to take to make the […]
May 2007 / 1 min.