Watching some World Cup games recently and hearing how Americans largely find soccer boring, noisy, full of sissies taking dives, and controversial officiating, the following suggestions occur to me:
Allow each team captain three opportunities over the course of the entire match to request an instant replay where any of the following are at issue:
A goal [...]
If, like me, you often find yourself searching for judicial opinions online, particularly to freely-available complete versions, and especially to Federal Circuit Court and Supreme Court opinions, then you’ve probably encountered the opinions at resource.org. I particularly like to link to these versions on my syllabi, because the paragraphs are numbered and then I can [...]
Today, Jason Schultz, Aaron Perzanowski, Joe Gratz, and I launched our new Cyberlaw Cases blog. You can read about it there, but please click on the Top 10 Pending Cyberlaw Cases chart. That thing took me forever…
Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900) has some great resources, but when I want to look at a multi-page pdf I always get frustrated if there is not a “download the whole pdf” option and I have to flip through it page by page online. So, here is An Act to revise, consolidate, and amend [...]
For the last year I advised a team of School of Information Masters students (Joshua Gomez, Travis Pinnick, and Ashkan Soltani) on their research into the privacy practices of popular websites. Today they have publicly released their findings on their website: knowprivacy.org.
They found that there is a mismatch between consumer expectations and website privacy [...]
The UC Berkeley School of Information eScholarship Repository contains publications, preprints, papers, and reports about work conducted under the auspices of the I School. Watch that space.
Fehrs v. StubHub, Inc., No. 0801-00515 (Ore. Cir. Ct. Sep. 9, 2008) found that StubHub was immune from a state law claim regarding ticket scalping. StubHub was not so lucky in NPS LLC v. StubHub, Inc., 2009 WL 995483 (Mass. Super. Jan. 26, 2009) where commentators at the Berkman Center and Mass Law Blog [...]
As part of the fallout from Facebook’s rollout of its Beacon ad service, some users of Blockbuster’s site sued Beacon-partner, Blockbuster, in the Northern District of Texas, for among other things, violations of the Video Privacy Protection Act. Blockbuster moved to compel arbitration of the dispute, relying on the Terms and Conditions on its [...]
Big day for interesting judicial opinions:
Golan v. Holder, (D. Colo. Apr. 3, 2009).
Congress has a legitimate interest in complying with the terms of the Berne Convention. The Berne Convention, however, affords each member nation discretion to restore the copyrights of foreign authors in a manner consistent with that member nation’s own body of copyright law. [...]
I just found something on PACER I have not seen reported anywhere.
U.S. v. Arnold is the 9th Cir. case which relied on the border search exception and reversed the C.D.Cal’s suppression of a laptop search at LAX without reasonable suspicion.
Petition for rehearing / en banc was denied a while back and cert was recently denied [...]
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