by Ashley Tan | Sep 4, 2009 | Cases, Commentary, Legal/Tech News |
The New York Times reported today that Amazon has changed its mind yet again about deleting Kindle copies of Orwell works, due to it lacking the rights to them. Amazon is now offering affected customers a free upload of a different, legally authorized...
by jjoerudd | Aug 31, 2009 | Commentary, Legislation/Regulations, Technology |
Speaking of destroying the internet, CBSNews.com reporter Declan McCullagh reports Senators Jay Rockefeller (D-W.V.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) recently introduced legislation that would give the president the authority to seize control of the Internet and order a...
by En Hong | Aug 19, 2009 | Commentary |
Richard Posner, 7th circuit appellate judge and expert on all things law and economics, recently commented on the impending death of newspapers. His post blames the “free riding” of blogs and other websites for the year-over-year decline of newspaper...
by Ashley Tan | Aug 8, 2009 | Commentary |
When Amazon controversially deleted copies of George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984 from its Kindles back in July, the ironic parallels between fact and fiction sent the Internet collectively scrambling to brush up on its literary quips. Not a bad thing, at least from...
by John Calvin | Aug 7, 2009 | Commentary |
In an opinion earlier this week, the California Supreme Court held that an employee’s right to privacy in the workplace is not boundless. An article on law.com lays out the reasoning behind the court’s decision. It should be noted that this decision is...
by Jason C. Miller | Aug 6, 2009 | Commentary, Legislation/Regulations, MTTLR Journal |
Last year, Professor Catherine Sharkey wrote that preemption is the “is the fiercest battle in products liability litigation today.” Catherine M. Sharkey, Products Liability Preemption: An Institutional Approach,76 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 449, 450 (2008) . Earlier this...
