by mxliu | Dec 5, 2013 | Commentary |
On November 15, 2013, self-described “hacktivist” Jeremey Hammond was sentenced to ten years in federal prison for obtaining and publishing confidential information from private defense firm Strategic Forecasting (Stratfor). [1] At the urging of the U.S. Department of...
by sindhoo | Nov 24, 2013 | Cases, Commentary, Legal/Tech News |
If you are anything like the average college student, you have probably scrambled for a book desperately needed for a research project in the last few days before said project is due. The most common fix to this problem is a technique perfected over the last decade –...
by pratter | Nov 24, 2013 | Cases, Commentary, Legal/Tech News |
In yet another unfortunate turn of events in the Authors Guild’s fight to enforce their interpretation of copyright law, the United States District Court in Manhattan ruled in favor of Google in Authors Guild v. Google, Inc. The court held that by digitizing books and...
by msputnik | Nov 20, 2013 | Commentary |
Are you counting down the days till the Michigan-OSU football game? What about the thrilling Houston Rockets-Dallas Mavericks game on ESPN’s Wednesday night NBA broadcast? Or for those of you who are more drama inclined, what about the latest episode of Rizzoli &...
by ckendig | Nov 18, 2013 | Commentary |
Earlier this year, 133 Galaxy tablets and smartphones were distributed to 25 law enforcement agencies in the San Diego region as part of a pilot program. Their purpose: to allow San Diego law enforcement officials to make use of mobile facial recognition technology in...
by keandrab | Nov 12, 2013 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News, Technology |
Music streaming service, Spotify, has yet again found itself at odds with a creator in the music industry. This time around, the disagreement centers on a more novel question: Does a compilation constitute copyrightable intellectual property? According to U.K. based...
