technology law
The Long Tail of Book Authoring
According to Noam Cohen’s article He Wrote 200,000 Books (but Computers Did Some of the Work) in tomorrow’s New York Times, Philip M. Parker, a professor at Insead, has generated more than 200,000 books using computer algorithms and publicly available information. As an experiment, it’s fascinating; as commerce, less so.
The books themselves, unsurprisingly, leave […]
New Forms and Directions for Law Review Websites
Doug Hass at This is where the cowboy blogs away… notes that not only are the Hoosiers good shots (see my previous post here), but they just rolled out a fantastic update to their Law Review’s website - the Indiana Law Journal Supplement.
In design and function, the Indiana Law Journal Supplement represents the best implementation […]
Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Computer Forensics
I only have a week left of my summer “break” but I think I found one last project to sneak in - making a forensically sound copy of my hard drive - punk rock style.
Law Technology News: Do-It-Yourself Forensics
Texas Attorney General Arrests Convicted Sex Offenders with MySpace Accounts
The Houston Chronicle reports today in MySpace profiles lead to sex-offender arrests that Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has ordered the arrest of convicted sex offenders accused of violating their parole by posting profiles on MySpace. More details on this Houstonist post.
Abbott could not say whether any of the men had actually approached, or tried […]
Cell Phone Forensics - Evidence gleaned from Cell Phone used in High-Profile Cases
We had a fact pattern in mock trial last year that used cell phone evidence to place the defendant in a murder case. On one hand it was hard to know what to do with it or how to present it to a jury. On the other, its appeal to cold, hard facts gave it […]
Proceed and Permit Letter
via /. - Linden Labs Sends “Permit-and-Proceed” Letter. Take note, Pyrrhic lawyers, victory is in the thickness of your client’s wallet. Are you listening RIAA?
UPDATE: NFL are you taking stupid pills? A church? What, couldn’t find an infringing orphanage? or a puppy to kick?
Eben Moglen
The O’Reilly Distributing the Future Podcast turned up this interesting talk at OSCON 2006 by Eben Moglen, professor of law and history of law at Columbia University. Moglen, pro bono General Counsel for the Free Software Foundation and Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center is an unabashed champion of open source software development and staunch […]
Interesting Case: Spamhaus
CNET reports Spam fighter hit with $11.7 million judgment
Spamhaus appears unfazed by the ruling. In a statement on its Web site, Spamhaus dismissed the judgment as invalid and charges that the court was “bamboozled by spammers.” Spamhaus didn’t mount a defense in the case; the ruling was a default judgment in absence of counterarguments.
“Default judgments […]
Supreme Court Rethinks Obviousness
The Patently-O Patent Law Blog has a great analysis on the concept of obviousness that will be central in a patent case SCOTUS just agreed to hear - KSR v. Teleflex (Supreme Court 2006)
The doctrine of nonobviousness ensures that patent rights are not granted on inventions that are simply throw-away modifications of prior technology. […]
MySpace Inadequate Protections Case
Here’s a case worth watching. Social networking website MySpace is being sued by a 14-year-old girl in Texas state court in Austin for failing to provide adequate protections against sexual assault.
I have to wonder how MySpace, aside from being an almost perfect target for this kind of suit (cash reserves + negative publicity on this […]