Archive for the 'Copyright' Category
The Nexus of Intellectual Privacy and Copyright
Tuesday, June 6th, 2006Alex Cameron has posted a nice essay on “The Nexus of Intellectual Privacy and Copyright” at the ID Trail Mix blog. Its opening salvo:
For nearly three centuries since the enactment of the world’s first copyright statute, individuals have been free to travel the kingdom of copyright as countrymen, enjoying the delightful objects to be found […]
MGM v. Grokster
Friday, March 4th, 2005The Electronic Frontier Foundation has an excellent page summarizing the MGM v. Grokster case and a complete listing of all the supporting court documents and amicus briefs related to the case. From their page:
EFF is defending StreamCast Networks, the company behind the Morpheus peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing software, in an important case that will be heard […]
Google Auto-Link Function Raises Copyright/Trademark Discussion
Sunday, February 27th, 2005[source: The Trademark Blog]
The new Google toolbar adds links to content through a function named Auto-Link. For example, it is my understanding that if an address appears on a webpage, a program in Google’s toolbar can create a link from that address to, perhaps, Google’s map service. This has stirred some controversy, as it gives […]




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