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Internet Radio Bills Supported by College Broadcasters
While with CIS, Fellow Elizabeth Rader (now with Akin Gump) did a lot of excellent work for college broadcasters facing prohibitively high fees and complex pape…
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Prof. Michael Geist at CFP
Here's a quick live-blog of Prof. Michael Geist's dinner talk tonight at the Computers Freedom & Privacy conference in Montreal. Future of the Inte…
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US v. Heckenkamp
Last week, in United States v. Heckenkamp, the Ninth Circuit (correctly) ruled that students have a constitutionally protected reasonable expectation of privacy…
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OECD user-created content report
I’ve just came across this report published recently by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) about User-Created Content (UCC). The…
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(Cyber) Crime and Punishment - Worries about the Convention on Cybercrime
href="http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1540,2100916,00.asp">My column in this month's CIO Insight describes a few of the big concerns I hav…
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Widgets aren’t welcome in TheirSpace
The NYT has the story about a popular blogger, Ms. Tequila, who was apparently contacted personally by MySpace’s founder, Tom Anderson, explaining to her why sh…
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The revolution will be televised...on YouTube
I am working in Europe this week with a large technology company, and of course everyone is talking about the filing of a $1 billion copyright infringement case…
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FCC May Allow Unlicensed use of 'White Space' Spectrum
Techdirt reports that the Federal Communications Commission may start to allow unlicensed uses in so- called "white space spectrum." WSS is the buffe…
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Court Rules on Copyright Preemption of Trade Dress Infringement and State Law Claims
Plaintiff Blue Nile, Inc. and Defendant Ice.com both own and operate online diamond and fine jewelry retail sales businesses. Plaintiff alleged that Defendant…
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Applying “Expected Norms of Intended Use,” Court Upholds Conviction for Accessing Protected Computer Without Authorization
Rejecting several challenges, the Fifth Circuit recently upheld the conviction of a University of Texas at Austin student violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse…
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Court Upholds Copyright Infringement and Unauthorized Access Claims Where A Single User License Was Shared By Multiple People
Plaintiff Therapeutic Research Faculty sued defendants – NBTY, Rexall Sundown, and Le Naturiste J.M.B. – for violating the terms of a single user license by all…
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Is Using Open Wireless Networks Illegal?
Alaska police are considering pursuing criminal charges against a 21 year old who was playing online games in the parking lot of the local public library. The a…