Archive for the 'Law' Category

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Monday, December 14th, 2009

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 [...]

New Cyberlaw Group Blog

Monday, August 31st, 2009

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…

The 1870 Patent and Copyright Act

Monday, July 6th, 2009

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 [...]

Privacy Research Released

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

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 [...]

UC Berkeley School of Information eScholarship Repository

Monday, May 18th, 2009

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.

StubHub and Section 230 Immunity

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

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 [...]

Website Terms Allowing Unilateral Changes Illusory and Unenforceable

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

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 [...]

Copyright and Trademark Double-Header

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

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. [...]

News in United States v. Arnold

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

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 [...]

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. v. iCraveTV, 53 U.S.P.Q.2d 1831 (W.D. Pa. 2000).

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

I still hate it when I cannot easily find an opinion online: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. v. iCraveTV, 53 U.S.P.Q.2d 1831 (W.D. Pa. 2000).