Legality Questions About Use of Stingray
Covert Electronic Surveillance Prompts Calls for Transparency [pdf] Law enforcement officials across the United States have become enamored of the StingRay, an electronic surveillance device that can...
View ArticleI’ll Take “Exploiting Tragedy” for $500, Alex!
Because, if Mike Huckabee and Republican (+1) US governors can do it, why can't the US security apparatus? Encrypted Messaging Apps Face New Scrutiny Over Possible Role in Paris Attacks [pdf] American...
View ArticleFurdlog Redux
After the site got hijacked and, thus, shutdown, I’ve been a little overwhelmed with lots of other things, so it’s lain fallow for some time. With the 2016 election, however, it seems that I need an...
View ArticleArchives Reloaded
Well, got the archival posts from the base WordPress site back into the system. And I moved over the PDF/image archive directories, so at least some of the old links will have PDF equivalents that...
View ArticleThe Battle Never Ends
Because, of course, the distinctions between “shall” and “will” are a prima facie demonstration of copyrightable innovation: ‘We Shall Overcome’ Copyright Case Moves Closer to Trial Along with the...
View ArticleFake News
The NYTimes has decided to run with the issues of “fake news” — the generation of clickbait articles grounded in the principles of urban legends, turbocharged by the combination of heightened political...
View Article“Patent Exhaustion” Sustained
From Supreme Court Rules Patent Laws Can’t Be Used to Prevent Reselling regarding Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark Int’l, Inc. [local pdf] The Supreme Court on Tuesday placed sharp limits on how...
View ArticleNYTimes “Tees Up” A Discussion of Winner’s “Frankenstein’s Problem”
I always enjoy my class discussions around Langdon Winner’s “Frankenstein’s Problem: Autonomous Technology,” but I so rarely see a precise analog in the public press. But todays Facebook’s...
View ArticleFreelancers Win Copyright Suit Over Digitization
It Took 17 Years: Freelancers Receive $9 Million in Copyright Suit The Authors Guild filed the suit — along with the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the National Writers Union and 21...
View ArticleArticle 13 of the Digital Single Market Directive Rejected (for now)
Tech Giants Win a Battle Over Copyright Rules in Europe [pdf] It’s a fight nearly as old as the internet. On one side are news organizations, broadcasters and music companies that want to control how...
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