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Congressional civility caucus gets little interest
Josephine Hearn in The Politico: "Cleaver has been fed up with the level of partisan bickering he has found in Congress since he arrived in 2005. He has he…
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Are Criminal Sanctions the Answer to Spam?
In yesterday's Wired News Circuit Court column "Free the Spam King" I take on the question of whether criminal prosecutions will stop spam, or are…
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Libel Claim Over the Sun's "Caprice in Clinic" Story
Supermodel Caprice has, according to the Press Gazette, launched a £100,000 legal battle for libel damages over stories in The Sun and on the paper’s website.…
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The L.A. Times Opines On Shloss v. Joyce Estate
Here is an editorial from today's L.A. Times, entitled Portrait of the Old Man as a Copyright Miser: How a Lawsuit About Some Old Books and Letters Sheds L…
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Apply to Be a CIS Non-Residential Fellow
The Center for Internet and Society is now accepting applications for the 2007-2008 Non- Residential Fellowship Program. CIS Non-Residential Fellows work indep…
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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…