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Cellphone Users Rebel
Cellphone users try to wrest some of carriers control - The Boston Globe I'm quoted in this story about cell phone companies efforts to keep their customer…
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Virtual Property, Real Litigation: Second Life Cannot Prevent User From Suing In Court
A Pensylvania federal court has held that Second Life's user agreement cannot be enforced insofar as it requires arbitration of claims alleging that Linden…
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"Does Virtual Reality Need a Sheriff?"
This fascinating article appears on the front page of today's Washington Post: Some virtual activities clearly violate the law, like trafficking in sto…
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Amicus filed in U.S. v. Andrus
Paul Ohm and I wrote an amicus brief in the 10th Circuit case of US v. Andrus, the opinion I wrote about in last week's Wired News column. In the case, the…
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Doe Wins Motion to Unseal, Bodes Well for Preservation of Anonymity
The Sixth District Court of Appeal in California has granted Cyberlaw Clinic client John Doe's motion to unseal records in H.B. Fuller v. Doe. In the trial…
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Another Victory For Carol Shloss
Most who have followed Professor Carol Shloss's lawsuit against the Estate of James Joyce and its Trustees know she prevailed completely when the Estate agr…
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Effective TPMs the Finnish way
A district court in Finland ruled yesterday that the Content Scrambling System (CSS) - the standard technological protection measure for movies distributed on D…
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U.S. v. Andrus
My Wired News column today is Hack My Son's Computer, Please, a discussion of the Fourth Amendment opinion in U.S. v. Andrus (pdf), issued in April by the T…
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The Assault on Reason
From Al Gore's new book, The Assault on Reason: "Why has America's public discourse become less focused and clear, less reasoned? Faith in the powe…
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The Two Faces Of Perfect 10 v. Google
The Ninth Circuit has issued its long-awaited opinion in Google v. Perfect 10. Read the decision here. My initial take is that it's a mixed bag. On one h…
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A proposed new crime: "attempted" copyright infringement
This has left me speechless. Read also here on the administration's new bill called the Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2007. Maybe you'll becom…
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(Rejecting) The Human Community
Brooks in the 5/11 NYT : "In April 1999, Blair delivered a speech in Chicago in which he ran down all the features of the globalized world that cross borde…