Thanks to the Concurring Opinions gang for inviting me back for another visit!
I will leave it to the likes of the incredible Rick Hasen and SCOTUSBlog’s Lyle Deniston — among many, many others — to talk about the important election law elements of Monday’s Supreme Court decision on voter identification in Crawford v. Marion County […]
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Filed under: Court Decisions, Privacy, Voting, Anonymity
I will be a guest blogger at Concurring Opinions this month. I will cross-post anything to do with info/law here — and perhaps some things that are too geeky will get posted here and not there!
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The New Jersey Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision on Monday ruling that the state’s constitution goes further than the United States Constitution by requiring a warrant before the government can obtain subscriber information from an information service provider (such as linking a name to an IP address). Under controlling Fourth Amendment precedent, individuals […]
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Filed under: Minnesota, Court Decisions, Internet & Society, ISP, Intermediaries, Privacy, Anonymity
The Minnesota State House has passed the “Hannah Montana bill”, 119-12. The proposed legislation, which I discussed last month, bans software that jumps the queue at Ticketmaster and other sites that sell event tickets. The state Senate passed a slightly different version of the bill easrlier this month, and now must consider the […]
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Filed under: Internet & Society, Minnesota, badware, Digital Media, Intermediaries, Software, Music
My new project involves examining legal protections for the public domain under United States copyright law. There’s a doctrinal component to that — what does the law say? — as well as a normative component — why should we care? It’s that latter question that I’ve been noodling around lately.
Anyone who looks for […]
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Filed under: Internet & Society, Copyright
Most readers probably know about the bitter lawsuit against Mark Zuckerburg, the controversial founder of Facebook, alleging that he stole the idea for the wildly successful social-networking site from other Harvard students who had hired the young geek to write code for a similar site, eventually unveiled as ConnectU. I never knew whom to […]
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Filed under: Social Networking, Internet & Society, Digital Media, Trademarks, Intermediaries
Via Boing Boing comes a story about the State of Oregon asserting copyright over its official codification of state laws, the Oregon Revised Statutes. The state’s Office of Legislative Counsel has been sending out C&Ds to groups like Justia and public.resource.org, demanding that they take down their copies of the state laws. The groups are […]
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Filed under: Open Access, Internet & Society, Digital Media, Education & Copyright, Intermediaries, Copyright, Scholarship
My friend and colleague Noah Hall has just launched an excellent new blog that examines water law, with a particular focus on the Great Lakes. What’s he discussing? Fights over bottled water, the challenges of climate change, pending Supreme Court cases - all great stuff. Noah’s one of the leading experts on water law, as […]
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Filed under: Blogroll, Court Decisions, international, Law School, Blogging
Back in September 2006 I expressed skepticism about the posting of all congressional staff salaries by a web site called LegiStorm. At the time I said:
It might be different if this were the members of Congress themselves (whose salaries are set by statute) or perhaps their most senior aides. Can it really matter to […]
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Filed under: Internet & Society, Digital Media, Privacy, Voting, Media
Paul Caron brought an interesting piece in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal to my attention: Candid Camera: Trove of Videos Vexes Wal-Mart. The story: about 30 years ago, Wal-Mart hired a small video production firm to record meetings of Wal-Mart’s executives, as well as speeches, shareholder meetings, sales presentations, and the like. The video […]
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Filed under: Video, Copyright, Media