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Pop-up Advertisement Vendor WhenU.Com Enjoined
Contact lens vendor 1-800 Contacts was granted a preliminary injunction against pop-up advertisement vendor WhenU.com and competing lens merchant Vision Direct…
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ARGOS Survives Dismissal Motions in Cybersquatting Suit
ARGOS is a corporation organized under French law—“[i]t is a non-profit organization that functions to promote and facilitate applied research in spinal surgery…
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New York State Supreme Court Sustains Trespass to Chattels Claim for Unwanted E-Mail
A former employee of plaintiff School of Visual Arts (“SVA”), allegedly posted false job listings on the website Craigslist.com, stating that SVA was seeking ap…
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Second Circuit Upholds Preliminary Injunction Barring Query and Use of WHOIS Information in Register.com v. Verio
Register was appointed by ICANN to serve as one of more than fifty companies that issue domain names for websites. In addition, it sells its own web-related ser…
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Court Upholds $521 million Jury Verdict Against Microsoft For Patent Infringement
In 1999, Eolas Technologies sued Microsoft for patent infringement over its implementation of ActiveX. The Patent, No. 5,838,906t, owned by the University of C…
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Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Denies Reporters Protection against Compelled Disclosure of Murder Defendant’s Statements
Brian Tyson shot and killed a drug dealer during a feud with local dealers in his neighborhood. Tyson claimed that he acted in self-defense. Prior to his tria…
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SF Chronicle: Yogis go to court over poses, Copyright dispute turns yoga into a legal exercise
CIS Residential Fellow Elizabeth Rader is quoted in this front-page article from the San Francisco Chronicle about her work on the Open Source Yoga case. Find o…
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CyberSecurity Audio
Audio clips from our CyberSecurity, Research, and Disclosure conference are now online in RealAudio format. You can find them here.…
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McDanel Decision
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling reversing and remanding the lower court's convinction.…
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Culture, Creativity and Information Technology
Digital Cultural Institutions Project – Summer 2004 Awards Competition The Social Science Research Council is pleased to announce a 2004 summer awards competit…
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More Times Coverage
This article over at the New York Times reports on a study about Diebold's voting system vulnerabilities.…
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The new social networking?
OK, so we all know Friendster, Orkut, Tribes, Sixdegrees, etc., etc. Enter Couch Surfing. For those not in the know (I had to look it up), couch surfing is wher…