International Law

Collectivizing Rights; Privatizing Taxation: The Unarticulated Function of Copyright Collectives
The recent proposal from the Songwriters Association of Canada to fully legalize peer-to-peer file sharing of music by adding a $5 monthly charge to the cost of Internet access (and similar proposals floating south of the border) has brought renewed attention in the role of levies and tariffs collected by copyright collectives in Canada...

Define That Term #310
Last week's term was G.A.T.T., which is defined as:General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade-A comprehensive free-trade treaty signed in 1947 by 117 nations, including almost every developed country...

A Multiplicity of 'Mistress'es
Both local and national media are following the inquest in Glastonbury on the 2001 death of Andrew Chubb, the Somerset-based ...

Google Video held liable for the copyright infringement of Tranquility Bay (TGI Paris 19 octobre 2007)
In October 2007, a Paris court ordered Google to pay ?35,000 in damages for the copyright infringement of the documentary ? Tranquility Bay ?, multiple unauthorized copies of which had been posted on the video-sharing website Google Video...

Copyright Law #1: Introduction to Copyright I
In this, the first episode of Copyright Law, we begin a high-level overview of what copyright is...

Digital Copyright Slider
Thanks to The Wired Campus, I stumbled across this nifty digital copyright tool developed by the American Library Association’s Copyright Advisory Network (in the Office for Information Technology Policy)...

Copyright Lawsuits: Critical Issues Before Filing Copyright
Federa Rule 11(b) Considerations

How to evict a roommate?
First, in most jurisdictions "self-help" is not a remedy available to any party ...

Can collection agency call me for my mother debt that she never had?
Get an Attorney - quickly. Do not talk to the collection people. Do not tell the...

The company I worked for forced me to quit instead of dealing with someone harassing me, what can I do?
Look up CONSTRUCTIVE DISCHARGE...................this looks like what happened t...

How to tell if I have been subject to gender discrimination in hiring practices?
You didn't apply for the job. so that's a tough one. Seemingly your Bo...

What are the legal aspects of marrying someone carrying a huge amount of debt?
Yes, you would be accepting the debt of this new married partner as your own. Th...

Spike Lee and Showtime
Settlement reached in script copyright infringement lawsuit.

Joke Book
Judy Brown and publishers pay undisclosed settlement to comedians and talkshow celebrities for copyright infringement.