Copyright Law

Yahoo filters (censors) the Pirate Bay
Torrent Freak blogs about Yahoo's decision to exclude the Pirate Bay from their search results: Filtering or blocking the Pirate Bay is beginning to become a trend. Little over a week ago, a Danish court ordered the ISP ?Tele2? to block its customers access to The Pirate Bay...

Acting Against ACTA by Professor Alan Story
?If it is a sin for the poor to steal from the rich, it must be a much bigger sin for the rich to steal from the poor. Don?t rich countries pirate poor countries? best scientists, engineers, doctors, nurses and programmers? When global corporations come to operate in the Philippines, don?t they pirate the best people from local firms? If it is bad for poor countries like ours to pirate the intellectual property of rich countries, isn?t it a lot worse for rich countries like the US to pirate our intellectuals?...

Blawg Review #153
The only fault that I could find with this week's pirate-themed Blawg Review #153 (or Blarrg Review) is that it's simply not C (sea)-worthy. Captain George Wallace of Declarations and Exclusions gets an A for his spirited journey around the...

Pirate Blawg Review #153
Aye, matey--it's not Talk Like a Pirate Day yet, but Real Pirates keep it up all year round. The savage and merciless "Captain George" Wallace of Wallace & Schwartz hosts this week's Blawg Review #153 at Declarations and Exclusions...

Schwedischer Pirate-Bay heuert bei Warner an
Vor dem schwedischen Prozess gegen vier Verantwortliche der Torrent-Website The Pirate Bay ziehen die Beklagten die Ermittlungsarbeit der Polizei in Frage. Schwedischen Medienberichten zufolge soll der Leiter der Vorermittlungen gegen Pirate Bay seinen Posten bei der Polizei inzwischen gegen einen neuen Job bei Warner Bros Schweden getauscht haben...

Talk Like a Tort Pirate
Still can't really type well, but I can at least urge you all to celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day. From last year's post on the subject: Some suggested terms: Res ipsa loquitARRRR! Matey, ye caused a batt'ry when ye...

Cipro
The FDA is seeking to add black box warnings of the risk of tendon rupture associated with Cipro and Levaquin. The ruptures can involve Achilles tendon, shoulder, hand, bicep or thumb tendons, and is especially increased in patients older than 60, or people who have received kidney, heart or lung transplants, as well as people on steroid therapy...