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Do Internet firms have a responsibility to spread democracy abroad?
Perhaps you've heard, but if you haven't, check this out: Just last week, the House International Relations subcommittee hauled a number of executives…
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Ripping my own CD's is infringment?!?
The EFF posted this very interesting article about the RIAA's filing in the DMCA rule-making proceedings -- apparently, the RIAA thinks that ripping my own…
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Proposed fair use exemptions to DMCA anticircumvention
H.R. 4536 proposes adding an exception to 17 U.S.C. § 1201 for circumvention of access control or copy protection provided that the circumvention is "neces…
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Should we be using RFID tags to monitor workers?
A few days ago FT.Com ran a story (available here) about an Ohio company that has embedded RFID (radio frequency ID) technology in two of its employees. Ostens…
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Goldstein and Friedman
Some random thoughts I had about two books I read recently: "Copyright's Highway" by SLS Prof. Paul Goldstein, and "The World is Flat" b…
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Spyware stories
Ever had your computer attacked by spyware? Do the names PacerD, Exfol, EliteBar, 180solutions, 3D Desktop, YupSearch, or BlazeFind sound familiar? If so, the…
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Federal Circuit vacates dismissal of a patent infringement suit, finding that a patent holder retains standing to sue in an excl
In this patent infringement suit, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit considered the question of whether a patent holder retained the sta…
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Federal Circuit Dissent Calls for Clarification of Written Description Doctrine
The Federal Circuit denied a petition for rehearing en banc over the issue of what is required in the written description to justify a patent’s claims. Lizardte…
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Court rules website not liable for third party false information
Plaintiff Shelly Landry-Belle sued defendant Various Inc., the operator of AdultFriendFinder.com and several other websites, after Landry-Belle’s ex-boyfriend p…
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California District Court Enjoins Enforcement of Violent Video Game Law
The United States District Court for the Northern District of California, granted plaintiffs’ Video Software Dealers Association (VSDA) and Entertainment Softwa…
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Communications Decency Act Does Not Protect Internet Author-Administrators
The district court for the Southern District of Texas remanded this Internet libel action to state court. Plaintiff had originally filed suit in state court ag…
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Court Finds No Antitrust Injury From GNU General Public License (GPL)
This case involves the GNU General Public License (GPL), which governs the use of many products sold and distributed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF), incl…