Intellectual Property Law

minilinks for 2009-05-28

By hugh

• Sotomayor's Cyberlaw Record
  President Obama's nomination to the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, is the first nominee with a cyberlaw record.
  
• FCC's New Deal for Rural Internet
  ArsTechnica reviews the FCC's Rooseveltian proposal for how to deliver broadband to the rural public.
  
• Honolulu's Internet Vote
  The nation's first all-digital election successfully took place in Honolulu, where voters made their choices for neighborhood council online and via phone.
  
• Internet Child Porn Search Is "Knowing Possession"
  A Pennsylvania court ruled that the act of searching for and viewing child pornography online constitutes "knowing control."
  
• Banned E-Book App Returns -- And It's Good!
  MacWorld says the e-book reader Eucalyptus -- once banned by Apple for allowing access to racy public domain literature like the Kama Sutra -- is a hit.
  
• Why Android Could Be Headed for the Laundry Room
  Google's open source operating system for phones and devices appears to be taking off.
  
• Canadian Think Tank's Bogus Copyright Report
  The Conference Board of Canada admits plagiarizing sections of its report on copyright, as well as suppressing research that it disagreed with.
  

Full post as published by Electronic Freedom Foundation - Deep Links on May 28, 2009 (boomark / email).