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Is CSS copyrightable
Came across this article discussing whether CSS is copyrightable. It is pretty interesting because CSS consists the characteristic of software codes and also expression, in a formated way. So I was not sure how we should view CSS before reading … Continue reading
House Committee Bill on Sharing Information
Related to today’s lecture on interception and protection of your private information. According to EFF, this new Information Sharing Bill fails to limit how the fed. government can handle your private communications. Your information can be used for intelligence purposes. EFF claims … Continue reading
Chanel v. Does: Policy Implications of Centralized Internet Infrastructure
FACTS OF THE CASE Chanel has brought suite against hundreds of Internet domain name owners, accusing them of using the website domains that they own to traffic in counterfeit goods. A district court judge in Nevada has ruled that Chanel can legally … Continue reading
Differences between non-competition agreements in California and Massachusetts
By Tim & Anita We may be lucky to live in California, where the reach of non-compete agreements is fairly limited. The case of Edwards v. Anderson (2008) held that non-competition agreements are void in California with few exceptions. Furthermore, non-compete agreements … Continue reading
People v Weaver – An Appealing Reversal for 4th Amendment Privacy Protection
by Jacob Portnoff and Adriane Urband NEW YORK COURT OF APPEALS PEOPLE v WEAVER Decided on May 12, 2009 In People v. Weaver, a state police investigator placed a sophisticated GPS tracking device on the defendant’s van. The GPS was … Continue reading
Falun Gong v. Cisco – Aiding the Golden Shield
by Andrew Chao & Gilbert Hernandez Background In the class action lawsuit Doe v. Cisco Systems, the Human Rights Law Foundation, representing a group of Falun Gong practitioners, are accusing Cisco of aiding human rights violations through the distribution and … Continue reading
SOPA: R.I.P. Internet (As We Know It)
by Vimal Kini & Jennifer Wang On Wednesday, November 17 an entertainment industry-backed measure to “kill the Internet” comes up for review in the House of Representatives in the form of the Stop Online Piracy Act. The act claims to … Continue reading
DOJ wants to modify CFAA
An interesting news article came up discussing how the Department of Justice is scheduled to deliver a statement to Congress tomorrow telling them that they would like to make it a prosecutable offense to violate a site’s Terms of Services … Continue reading
Hotfile vs. Warner Bros vs. DMCA
In February 2011 a group of big Hollywood studios sued Hotfile, a data storage website, for copyright infringement. The way Hotfile works is that users upload data and control access to it, so the user can share links for downloading … Continue reading
RIAA Says DMCA May Need Overhaul
According to http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-57319344-261/riaa-lawyer-says-dmca-may-need-overhaul/, the four largest record labels are discontent with the way courts have interpreted the Digital Millennium Copyright act in recent years, says a lawyer who oversees litigation for the Recording Industry Association of America. Jennifer Pariser is … Continue reading