by nsims | Mar 25, 2009 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News |
New Zealand’s government announced this week that their proposed “three strikes”/”graduated response” copyright law would not go into effect, and would be rewritten from the ground up.The law, which would have required ISPs to cut off...
by nsims | Mar 10, 2009 | Technology |
Monday, President Obama signed an executive order intended to foster stem-cell research, reversing the policies of the previous administration that limited research to existing stem-cell lines. Further Congressional action will be necessary to remove all federal...
by nsims | Mar 3, 2009 | Cases |
The Supreme Court has granted cert in Reed Elsevier v. Muchnick, a case arising from settlement negotiations following New York Times v. Tasini. In Tasini (full decision), the court determined that freelancers who had not explicitly licensed electronic publication...
by nsims | Feb 20, 2009 | Commentary |
by: Rodney Tolentino, Associate Editor, MTTLR There is a current trend among states, including Texas, Georgia and South Carolina, to require computer forensic technicians to be licensed by state agencies as private investigators.1 On May 28, 2008, Michigan joined...
by nsims | Feb 18, 2009 | Cases |
by: Ali-Reza Boloori, Associate Editor, MTTLR The Supreme Court in Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG Elecs., Inc.1 made a broad, contemporary affirmation of the principle of patent exhaustion. By answering in the affirmative the question of “whether patent exhaustion...
