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This article in Ms. Somma's local paper discusses the settlement. Read more about Article re settlement

The District Court in Colorado issued a ruling on the parties' pending summary judgment motions. The court granted summary judgment to the government on all claims. For the opinion and more details, see our case page. Read more about Golan: District Court issues disappointing opinion

Last week, the District Court ruled on the parties' pending cross motions for summary judgment. The Court denied Plaintiff's motion for partial summary judgment, and granted the government's summary judgment motion on all claims. This means the case is over at the trial court level. Read more about Disappointing ruling

At the end of March, the parties jointly filed a Pretrial Order in preparation for trial in June. A pretrial conference was held before Magistrate Judge Boland on April 11. Our new lead trial attorney, Ted Herhold of the law firm Townsend & Townsend, appeared on behalf of Plaintiffs. Read more about Joint pretrial order & pretrial conference

In February, Plaintiffs filed a summary judgment motion on the Copyright Clause claim. The motion has been fully briefed. Here is the Government's opposition, and Plaintiff's replybriefs. Read more about Plaintiff's summary judgment motion

I'm at CFP 2005 in Seattle and it has been an interesting week so far. Today, Nicole Ozer, Civil Liberties & Technology Policy Director of ACLU-Northern California, gave an interesting presentation linking several events in Hollywood sci-fi films (Enemy of the State, Gattaca, Brazil, and Minority Report) to post-9/11 "realities." Props to Ozer for a provocative presentation, with thought given to how to bring her message of surveillance and privacy concerns to a broader audience. Read more about CFP Update -- Hollywood Sci-Fi and Collages

Luck's Music et al v. Ashcroft raises a copyright clause claim against the URAA similar to that brought by the Golan v. Gonzalez case which I've been working on for the past year here at CIS. Read more about Luck's Music case update

We are pleased to report that CIS client J. Emily Somma and the Great Ormond Street Hospital have settled their litigation concerning Peter Pan rights. The parties have jointly issued a press release announcing the settlement (press release). The terms of the settlement are otherwise confidential. (Read more here.) Read more about Peter Pan Case Settled

An article in Five Eight Magazine by Magnatune founder, John Buckman, discusses how the Creative Commons licenses work for his record company business.
Read more about Creative Commons w/ Magnatune

I recently registered for 2005 Computers Freedom and Privacy conference to be held in my hometown, Seattle, Washington.

Read more about Coming Soon... CFP 2005

We are pleased to report that the parties have reached an amicable resolution of this litigation. The parties have jointly issued a press release announcing the settlement (press release). The terms of the settlement are otherwise confidential. Read more about Settlement reached

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I attended the FTC's Patent "town meeting" in San Jose on March 18 (complete set of slides from the meetings are available to download here).

Read more about FTC's Patent Reform "Town Meeting"

The Congressional Research Service, a division of the Library of Congress whose goal is to handle research needs of Congress, recently prepared a report which discussed DRM legislation in the 107th and 108th Congresses and reflects some prospects for the 109th Congress. Read more about Digital Rights Management Report from CRS