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Written by professors of Business, Law & Technology and Legal Methods.
By Jonathan Ezor anad Michelle Zakarin

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Last Entry: August 16, 2009 at 15:36:18

Homeland Security Cuts Newspapers

Posted on April 24, 2009
The Department of Homeland Security is giving up newspaper subscriptions because the news is available on the Internet for free. Well, the President did ask his cabinet to cut a hundred million from the budget. More here.

The Third Annual Conference on

Posted on April 23, 2009
The Third Annual Conference on the Law and Economics of Innovation will be held on May 7th of this year at the Hilton Arlington in Arlington, Virgnia. The conference is sponsored by George Mason University and Microsoft, and features a...

YouTube Turns 4

Posted on April 23, 2009
YouTube is four years old today? It seems as if the site has been here forever, and that Google has owned it forever. Even though YouTube is, as Mark Cuban puts it, a lawsuit magnet, it is a site that...

Fourth Circuit Affirms Fair Use in Plagiarism Service Case

Posted on April 21, 2009
It's widely accepted that some high school students can be too smart for their own good. One case, A.V., a minor v. iParadigms, LLC demonstrates this. The case involved the use of an archiving service by schools for student papers....

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UN Digital Library Available

Posted on April 20, 2009
The United Nations World Digital Library went online today. See this article in the Washington Post for details.

Windows 7 To Be Limited On Netbooks

Posted on April 20, 2009
Microsoft sees the netbook craze as a threat to profits on the Windows side of the business. The company is forced to offer XP, where it makes $15 a copy, as opposed to Vista, which brings in around $55 a...

Do Network Costs Justify Tiered Pricing for Internet Access?

Posted on April 20, 2009
The Time Warner Cable back down on tiered Internet pricing has brought out a debate on what this all means and where the industry is going with pricing. One one side is the New York Times, which argues that the...

Time Warner Cable Drops Bandwidth Caps

Posted on April 16, 2009
Time Warner Cable's plan to add caps to Internet usage with fees for going above the caps are dead for now. The company says it didn't expect the consumer backlash it received. The caps were ridiculously low and the charges...

Computer Expertise Good Enough for Probable Cause?

Posted on April 16, 2009
In the world of search and seizure, computer expertise is the rationale for probable cause that resulted in the seizure of computers and other network capable electronics from a computer science student at Boston University. The crime is the sending....

Does the RIAA Support Terrorism?

Posted on April 15, 2009
The RIAA lawsuits against file sharers promotes terrorism. No, really. Read the details here.

Non to French Three Strikes Law

Posted on April 13, 2009
The French Law of Creation and Internet suffered an unexpected defeat at the end of last week. The law was seen as a model and the future of copyright enforcement by content creators. Notably, Paul McGuinness, the manager of U2,...

Variable Pricing Hits Online Music Sales

Posted on April 08, 2009
The Apple iTunes store raised the prices on popular singles yesterday from $0.99 to $1.29. The music industry has lusted over variable pricing as a way to squeeze more money out of new music. Older catalog items may fall to...

Newspapers Need More Online Imagination to Survive

Posted on April 08, 2009
Google CEO Eric Schmidt addressed a group of newspaper publishers that Google and newspapers are friends as Google and other aggregators drive traffic to their sites. He also told them they could do more with their content, like adding hyperlinks...

Sun and IBM Talks Fail

Posted on April 06, 2009
IBM and Sun have broken off talks to merge. Stocks plunge, well, Sun's at least. More from ZDNet.

Coming Soon, the Death of Newspapers, but Not the News

Posted on April 06, 2009
The newspaper industry suffered another shock last week when the New York Times Co. threatened to shut down the Boston Globe if it did not receive $20 million in concessions from unions whose members work for the Globe. The union...

Google Buying Twitter?

Posted on April 03, 2009
The rumors abound, and they may be based on some form of truth out there. Google's forays into social networking haven't been that successful. It's Orkut product has never taken off save for South America, and even there it was...

Online Education Becoming Attractive in Tough Economic Times

Posted on April 03, 2009
One of the conundrums of education is online coursework, or specifically taking a class online rather than in a classroom. The problem is how to evaluate purely online pursuit of degrees via schools without that physical campus. The established universities...

Wikia Search To Be No More (for now)

Posted on March 31, 2009
The economic downturn has claimed another tech victim. This time it's Wikia Search, the open search engine started by Jimmy Wales. Given the lack of users and contributors, it became untenable to pour resources into it. It seems as if...

Microsoft Shutters Encarta

Posted on March 31, 2009
And really, why does anyone need this product with so many information sources looming at one's fingertips. I remember stories from the start of Encarta when Microsoft allegedly approached Britannica about collaborating on a product. As most print publishers believed...

Cloud Computing Manifesto Available

Posted on March 30, 2009
The Open Cloud Manifesto has been floating on the web for the better part of last week. The text is now officially available. It's easy to see why Microsoft and Amazon have refused to sign the document which was essentially...

Warners Plays Hardball With YouTube Over Videos

Posted on March 24, 2009
Must be time to renew a contract. Warner Brothers is making an aggressive push to remove videos from YouTube that uses copyrighted materials. The newest twist is the removal of videos where amateurs perform Warner copyrighted songs in various forms,....

Best Buy Price Matching Under Fire

Posted on March 24, 2009
Best Buy's price match guarantee is under fire in a class action suit. This isn't the first time Best Buy has had funny pricing. They were once cited for having an internal web site that was different from the public...

Obama Administration Supports Damages in P2P Case, Files Brief

Posted on March 23, 2009
The Obama administration has filed a brief supporting statutory damages as reasonable in the Massachusetts trial for copyright infringement via P2P. The plaintiff is the RIAA, and the defendant is Joel Tennenbaum. He's being defended by Professor Charles Nesson and...

Patent Reform in Congress

Posted on March 23, 2009
Patent reform, specifically to address suits by patent trolls, is up in Congress, with a meeting scheduled before the Judiciary Committee on the Leahy-Hatch patent bill. Commentary from IPWatchdog.

IE8 Reviews

Posted on March 23, 2009
USAToday publishes a roundup of reviews for Internet Explorer 8. Microsoft says it's faster than Firefox. Like any such claims, this one is subject to a lot of qualifications. Read more here.

Call For Papers: Law and Wikis

Posted on March 19, 2009
This time it's tech related. Call for Papers on the Topic of ?Law and Wikis? 2010 AALS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Jan. 6-10, 2010 The AALS Section on Law and Computers invites you to submit a request to present on...

IE 8 Out Officially

Posted on March 19, 2009
Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 today. You can get the U.S. version for XP here. There are links on the same page for other versions of Windows and other countries.

Google's missteps with security

Posted on March 18, 2009
Google's missteps with security for online documents has generated a petition by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) with the FTC for unfair or deceptive acts or practices. Google's brief exposure of documents in the Google Docs service is the...

IBM to Buy Sun Microsystems?

Posted on March 18, 2009
News reports indicate that IBM is interested in buying Sun Microsystems for $6.5 billion in cash. A number of reports suggest that it would be a good deal for both companies given their synergies in open source systems, servers, and...

Call For Papers: LatCrit

Posted on March 18, 2009
Sometimes we step out of character and note an event not related to technology. The call for papers from The South-North Exchange on Theory, Culture and the Law is one of those events. I have been asked to publicize the...

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