When you apply to law school, they ask you to write an essay. The essay is supposed to tell the admissions board why they should let YOU in, instead of some other schmuck with better grades and/or a higher LSAT score. When I wrote my essay, I focused on the SCO v. IBM case that [...]
Archive for September, 2006
IBM nukes SCO
Posted in civil procedure, copyright, free (or not) software on September 27, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Privacy or copyright? I choose both
Posted in copyright, privacy on September 22, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Just because you’re in a public school doesn’t mean you’ve forfeited copyright in your homework. Sounds to me like a recipe for a class-action lawsuit. These kids are complaining that they are afraid it might be a “violation of privacy,” whatever that means, but when the president of the company admits
The service has grown dramatically, [...]
pretexting
Posted in criminal law, privacy on September 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I haven’t been paying a whole lot of attention to this HP internal spying hoo-ha. Yes, it’s egregious, and yes, lots of very highly-paid people are going to lose their jobs as a result. But I can’t muster the interest that some tech bloggers and corporate reporters seem to have, becuase I just don’t care [...]
moving markets
Posted in copyright on September 14, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
another story in the news today that has nothing to do with our coursework…
Universal chief executive Doug Morris described video site YouTube and News Corp.’s social networking site MySpace as “copyright infringers” during a Merrill Lynch investors’ conference speech on Tuesday that was closed to the press.
“The poster child for (user-generated media) sites are MySpace [...]
why can’t we be more like norway?
Posted in copyright, privacy on September 14, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Slashdot has an interview with some attorneys. They took questions and wrote answers about the copyright industry and its nasty habit of suing its most enthusiastic customers. This is the kind of thing I want to do on my summer vacation.
why bother? From the answer to question number 8:
The US Attorney General is on [...]
a little pill
Posted in criminal law, torts on September 13, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Do you hate spam? I sure do. We might get to something like this in class today, but it seems like trespass to chattels is the least of his worries.
three more years
Posted in Uncategorized on September 11, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
three more years until i graduate, and i’ve already been replaced by a law robot.
