Intellectual Property Law

minilinks for 2008-07-02

By Hugh DAndrade

• Is the Gov't Tracking Us Through Our Cellphones? Lawsuit Seeks Answers
  A lawsuit brought by EFF and the ACLU seeks to force release of documents on cellphone tracking.
• RIAA requests internet filtering in international treaty
  The ACTA treaty is too secret for the public to see, but the RIAA has been able to make suggestions -- including gutting "safe harbor" provisions that protect ISPs.
• US and Europe near agreement on private data
  Law enforcement agencies are looking for common ground to increase the sharing of private data across the Atlantic.
• MPAA helps land criminal conviction in P2P case
  A Homeland Security raid on EliteTorrents eventually led the first jury conviction for P2P piracy.
  
• Warning to copyright enforcers: 3 strikes and you're out
  EFF Fellow Cory Doctorow has a modest proposal to punish serial abusers of copyright law.

Full post as published by Electronic Freedom Foundation - Deep Links on July 03, 2008 (boomark / email).

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