BLAWG LOG: Boyden on First Sale, ‘Lawfully Made,’ and Copyright Stalking-Horses
The Supreme Court heard oral argument this morning in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., despite Hurricane Sandy’s imminent arrival and the fact the entire federal government in Washington DC is shut down today.
BLAWG LOG: Boyden on unsolved mysteries of Copyright Law, 1963 Edition
I recently came across an interesting cluster of similar statements from copyright decisions in the late 1950s and early 1960s, which struck me as significant: It is a curious fact that although the Copyright Law has remained without relevant change since 1909 this case should present a question both basic and novel. Does either the Copyright Act or the common law provide copyright owners with a r[...]
BLAWG LOG: Boyden on speech by proxy and do video games dream of electric speech?
On Friday I mentioned Tim Wu’s op-ed last week, which asked if machines “have a constitutional right to free speech”?
BLAWG LOG: Boyden on employers’ requests for Facebook logins
I see that noted cybercrime expert Orin Kerr, a law professor at George Washington University, was on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal this morning, and his comments in the first few minutes of this recording basically sum up what I had to say on potential employers requesting social networking login information in job interviews: it’s unclear, but such activity may be prohibited by federal law.
BLAWG LOG: Scoville on Amanda Knox; Boyden on One Public Domain to Rule Them All
With an Italian appellate court having just overturned Amanda Knox’s murder conviction, the prosecutor on the case, Giuliano Mignini, has stated that he will appeal to have the conviction and sentence reinstated.
Ritterbusch on advocacy; Boyden on legal error
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Bauer on recidivism; Boyden on social networks, discovery
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- Net neutrality restored as FCC votes to regulate internet providers
- Wisconsin Attorney General asks Congress to expand reproductive health services
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- State Bar leaders remain deeply divided over special purpose trust
- Former Wisconsin college chancellor fired over porn career is fighting to keep his faculty post
- Pecker says he pledged to be Trump campaign’s ‘eyes and ears’ during 2016 race
- A conservative quest to limit diversity programs gains momentum in states
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