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Real Reverse Engineers iPod DRM
Real Networks bravely introduces a new song format that protects the intellectual property rights of the copyright holder but still permits the song to be playe…
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Plaintiffs Move for Discovery
In response to the Government's summary judgment motion, we filed a Rule 56(f) motion and affidavit seeking discovery. As our motion states, the Government…
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Does Rove Run Pentagon?
Does Bush's political advisor Karl Rove run the Pentagon? First, the Pentagon buries the Defense Department's self-study of torture and killing by the…
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Stopping the Copyright Term Extension Race in the EU?
After the European Union had harmonized the copyright term of its Member States' copyright laws to 70 years post mortem auctoris, the United States enacted…
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eBay sets more precedent in online defamation jurisprudence
Today's Recorder has an article by Brenda Sandburg about the California Court of Appeals' decision in Grace v. Ebay, a suit seeking to hold eBay liable…
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CreditCards.com sells for $2.5 million
The sale of creditcards.com for $2.5 million disproves the claim that domain names aren't valuable because of the proliferation of TLDs.…
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Cheney and Leahy Engage in Impossible Acts
A hilarious piece by Paul Simms in the New Yorker detailing new details of the Cheney/Leahy encounter on the floor of the Senate.…
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Ordinary Person's Guide to Republican National Convention Published
Every RNC event, corporate sponsor, delegate hotel, war profiteer in Manhattan, along with anti-rnc events, independent media outlets, protest sanctuaries, publ…
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Paper Kills
I am always impressed by the ability of US politicians to coin catchphrases. While European governments try to sell their e-health initiatives with lengthy argu…
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The Real Berger-Gate
Sandy Berger, loyal American and former National Security Advisor to the President of the United States, admits to misfiling papers in the national archives in…
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academic copyright
Another Elizabeth, another promising blog: academic copyright.…
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Move Over Markman- The Federal Circuit Takes a Claim Construction case en banc
Suuuueeee, feeding time for patent litigators (and patent avengers!). The Federal Circuit has issued an Order taking en banc a case called "Phillips"…