Intellectual Property Law

minilinks for 2008-09-18

By hugh

• New Bill Would Tighten Rules for Laptop Searches
  The Border Search Accountability Act would place limits on the governments ability to seize and search computers at the border.
  
• RIAA, MPAA Resume Lobbying on Copyright Law
  The recording industry and the motion picture industry are pushing the latest version of the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act.
  
• Obama v. McCain on Tech Policy
  Tim Wu compares the positions of the main candidates for president on
  technology and the Internet.
  
• Virginia Supreme Court: Spam Is Protected Speech
  A law banning anonymous mass emails was struck down as unconstitutional.
  
• YouTube Bans Terror Videos
  Terrorist training films and films that incite violence will be taken down as soon as they are identified.
  
• UK Cops Expand Car Surveillance
  Ubiquitous surveillance cameras will enable UK police to log every car journey, raising privacy concerns from civil libertarians.
  
• Hollywood's New DRM — Lipstick On a Pig?
  The motion picture industry is developing new copy protection that aims to allow some interoperability and loosens controls within the personal domain.
  
• Spies Turn to Wikipedia
  US News and World Report claims the intelligence community is beginning to use "open source" material — meaning "unclassified" — in their reports.
  
• Copyright's Paradox
  BoingBoing reviews Neil Natenel's new book on the intersection between free speech and copyright.
• Book Review: Intellectual Property and Open Source
  A review of Van Lindberg's new guide to US IP law for open source coders.
  

Full post as published by Electronic Freedom Foundation - Deep Links on September 18, 2008 (boomark / email).