Academic

File Sharing, Kazaa, Intellectual Property Rights and Privacy: Case C-275/06
The Court of Justice has handed down an interesting judgment in Case C-275/06 Promusicae v. Telefónica on the balance to be struck between privacy and the effective protection of intellectual property rights to prevent peer-to-peer musical file transfers...

How To Handle Intellectual Property When Buying A Business
The business purchaser needs to ascertain if intellectual property rights are needed for the continued operation of the business. Intellectual property rights that are important include trademarks, copyrights, service marks, and trade names...

Competition Law Enforcement and Intellectual Property Rights
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Alberto Heimler, Chief Economist of Italy's Autorita Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato discusses Competition Law Enforcement and Intellectual Property Rights in his latest working paper...

Intellectual Privacy by Richards
Neil M. Richards (Law, Washington U.) has posted Intellectual Privacy (Texas Law Review, Vol. 87, No. 2, December 2008) to SSRN. Here is the abstract: This paper is about intellectual privacy - the protection of records of our intellectual activities...

Masnick takes on Wayne Root
Mike Masnick writes:However, the split among libertarians over intellectual property rights fascinates me. There is a large group of libertarians who are against intellectual property rights (or, at least in favor of weakening them drastically)...

IP: Imaginary Property
Mike Masnick at Techdirt has another fulmination: If Intellectual Property Is Neither Intellectual, Nor Property, What Is It? and concludes:but we should be careful to not use it in a way that reinforces the concept that it's property just like other kinds of property...

Nanotechnology Law
Intellectual property laws

Privacy Protection Act 42 USC 21A
Federal Newsroom Law

Cumulative Voting
Protecting minority shareholder interests

The Civil Rights Act of 1871
Law bans discrimination enacted under color of state law

State Will Statutes
State Differences in Last Will and Testament Checklist

Discrimination
Federal laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability

Google Sued for Violating the Privacy Rights of Millions of Americans
Google Sued for Violating the Privacy Rights of Millions of Americans

Compellent, Storage Engine, et. al.
$10.5 million settlement reached in intellectual property dispute.

General Electric Co. and SABIC Innovative Plastics
$3 million settlement reached in intellectual property dispute.

Rally Rights
Gettysburg Borough awards arrested protester $22,500 civil rights settlement.

AOL Privacy Class Action
Can Proceed

Civil / Human Rights
alleging violations of basic human and civil rights.