Intellectual Property Law

minilinks for 2008-03-20The Electronic Frontier Foundation | Deeplinks Blogs

• FISA Attacks Fail to Sway CT Representative
  Rep. Joe Courtney has a good video explaining why he
  opposes telecom immunity, despite being attacked on the
  issue.
  
• Republican Opposes Telecom Immunity
  A Republican candidate in North Carolina says he wants
  telephone companies held accountable.
  
• Facebook Expands Privacy Features
  Facebook is making some privacy improvements -- but some
  changes are just theatre.
  
• Craigslist Not Liable for Postings
  A Circuit Court has ruled that Craigslist cannot be held
  liable for discriminatory housing ads posted on its site.
  
• Fingerprinting Foreign Visitors
  Airlines are objecting to a government plan would require
  them to collect fingerprints of each visitor to the United
  States.
  
• "All You Can Eat" iTunes?
  Apple is considering giving customers access to the entire
  iTunes library for a premium.
  
• Google Book Search Gets Better
  Library users can now use Google Book Search's new API to
  get a preview of books in the catalog.
  
• Hollywood Gets Into Spying Game
  MPAA chairman says he wants to work with ISPs to police
  networks and fight copyright infringement.
  
• Indie Labels Bypassing iTunes
  Independent record labels are going straight to the
  consumer, opening their own stores with high-quality audio
  and hard-to-find tracks.
  

Full post as published by IP Law Daily on March 21, 2008 (boomark / email).