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CIS Spring Speaker Series
We are pleased to announce the line-up for the CIS Spring Speaker Series: Elizabeth Rader February 9, 2004 Open Source Yoga Unity v. Bikram Choudhury- Stretchi…
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Grand Theft Auto suit moves to Federal Court
Er... Happy Holidays! Sorry for the lack of blogging. Anyway, the controversy over the videogame Grand Theft Auto: Vice City continues to have legs. Pointing to…
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Roemer UCLA J. L. Tech.
Ryan Roemer, Trusted Computing, Digital Rights Management, and the Fight for Copyright Control on Your Computer, 2003 UCLA Journal of Law & Technology 8 (20…
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German Government
German Government, Comments on the TCG and NGSCB in the Field of Trusted Computing, 2003.…
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celestial radio
Catching up on the New York Times online, I found this article from 12/26 about the diversity of music available on satellite radio, compared to the narrowing c…
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Owner Override and Distributed Computing
I have written before about the advantages and disadvantages of including an owner override feature into trusted computing architectures. In the earlier posting…
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Ninth Circuit Affirms Preliminary Injunction Against Elvis Video Documentary
Passport Entertainment, which produced and sold “The Definitive Elvis,” a 16- hour video documentary about the life of Elvis Presley, appealed a preliminary inj…
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Online Posting of Image of Streisand Estate Upheld by Court
The Superior Court of California upheld the online posting of an image of the California coast line, including a view of the Streisand estate in Malibu, made fo…
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7th Circuit Rules that Extraction of Public Domain Data from Copyright-Protected Database Is Not Copyright Infringement
Southeastern Wisconsin municipalities collect various data regarding properties located on their territory (address, owner’s name, the age of the property, its…
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Ninth Circuit Denies En Banc Review of Ruling on Defamation Liability of Website Operator
In 1999, Cremers, who was an operator of website Museum Security Network, posted an allegedly defamatory e-mail from Smith, suggesting that Batzel’s art work is…
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Court Denies Preliminary Injunction, Says Pop-Up Ads for Competitors Likely Don’t Infringe Trademarks and Copyright
WhenU.com, Inc. (“WhenU”) makes software that observes what web sites a consumer visits and what terms he or she searches for on the Internet. Based on those o…
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Mapping traditional user rights to cyberspace II
I have written before about some interesting aspects of the Digital Media Project. Now they have announced a workshop about how traditional rights and usages of…