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Sauron's Offer to the Dwarves: Enforceable?
In a first-rate showing that law students can geek it out with the best of them, a student (1L?) at Michigan has written up a contract law analysis of Sauron…
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"On the cutting edge of cyberspace legal issues"
The San Jose Mercury News has profiled Jennifer Granick within a series of articles about Silicon Valley business leaders who fly under the radar. Read the stan…
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Auto communications systems permit secret eavesdropping
The New York Times is reporting that a recent opinion of the Ninth Circuit, though rejecting a wiretap request on unrelated grounds, leaves the door wide open t…
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DC Circuit Holds Against RIAA Subpoenas
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a strongly worded opinion holding that the DMCA § 512(h) subpoenas used by the RIAA against Verizon and other ISPs ar…
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Third Branch Takes on Second Bush...
Our offices are closing (just for the break) but I did not want to leave without reading the Second Circuit's opinion in Padilla v. Rumsfeld, holding that t…
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Merc on McDanel
December 19, 2003: San Jose Mercury News on the McDanel victory…
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FCC Proceeding on Smart Radio
The FCC is beginning a proceeding on removing regulatory impediments to "smart" radio. What makes a radio "smart?" Well, software-defined ra…
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Napsterization
Napsterization…
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Berkeley IP Blog
bIPlog: Berkeley Intellectual Property Blog…
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Information Security Names CIS Fellow Phil Zimmermann "Best Problem Solver"
Information Security Magazine has named CIS Fellow Phil Zimmermann security's Best Problem Solver.…
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UnCommon Soiree
Sunday night I went up to 111 Minna Gallery for Creative Commons's one year anniversary bash. It's inspiring to see how people are using the cc licens…
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Creative Commons 2.0
As noted elsewhere, the big anniversary party for Creative Commons happened last night in SF. A fancy new Flash movie (7mb) and some great discussion re CC'…