The European Court of Justice issued an opinion last week holding that it is a violation of EU law for member states to impose filtering requirements on ISPs. The case came by way of a dispute between Belgian IP licensing…
Archive for the ‘Court Opinions’ Category
Supreme Court Action: Arbitration And A Whole Lot of Habeas
14
Nov
The Supreme Court issued four opinions in the last two weeks. Three of them are Per Curiam and one was authored by Justice Scalia. The first of these is Cavasos v. Smith (10-1115). It’s an unusual case involving the prosecution…
Browsing On A Sunday: Borders Books, The Health Care Law, And The Search Market
14
Nov
Bloomberg Business Week has a lengthy analysis on the failure of Borders Books called The End of Borders and the Future of Books. The pull quote is “Borders seems to have been in the business of making mistakes.” The article…
Short Takes On The News: Some Tech, Some Scandal And Outrage, And Some Law
11
Nov
CNET has a positive review of a new reader for Google Books that is not from Google. Called GooReader, the product is described as “is a desktop application that allows you to read Google Books online and offline, add Bookmarks,…
Julian Assange Loses Extradition Case – Here’s the Text
02
Nov
The news that Julian Assange has lost his latest appeal to prevent his extradition from the United Kingdom to Sweden is all over the news sources. The Guardian has posted the judgment of High Court of Justice for that case…
Ninth Circuit Holds EPCA Applies To Non-Citizens In Foreign Court Disputes
07
Oct
Here’s a little case out of the Ninth Circuit that extends the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) to non-citizens involved in foreign proceedings. The question arose in a civil case in Australia between Suzlon Energy Ltd. And Rajagopalan Sridhar. Suzlon…
Copyright Developments In The News
05
Oct
There were three recent developments in copyright. The first is that the United States and seven other governments signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) last Saturday. Parties to the super-secret talks who have not signed yet include the European Union,…
A Bit More On The Rudovsky Case
23
Sep
I wrote a post a while back called The Rudovsky Case and Quality Control. The thrust of the case is that West Publishing (the defendant) libeled two authors, David Rudovsky and Leonard Sosnov, by updating their treatise called Pennsylvania Criminal…
Tenenbaum File-Sharing Case Reversed on Procedure, Otherwise the Verdict Stands
21
Sep
One of the cases I’ve been covering from time to time is the copyright infringement case of Joel Tenenbaum. When we last left Mr. Tenenbaum and his lawyer, Harvard professor Charles Nesson, a jury had found liability against Mr. Tenenbaum…
