Fair Use Bolstered by Student-Cheating Detection Service
A federal appeals court granted a boost to fair use advocates Friday when it ruled that an online cheating-detection service storing thousands of student essays did not violate the intellectual...
View ArticleScholars Reject Obama’s Stance on Warrantless Cell-Phone Records
The Obama administration’s position that the government can force mobile carriers to hand over cellphone tower location information on their customers without a warrant is wrong, two legal scholars...
View ArticleObama, Keep Filling Administration with RIAA Insiders
The content industry, including the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America, are applauding President Barack Obama’s appointments of at least five RIAA...
View ArticleMPAA-RealDVD Trial Portends Legality of DVD Copying
SAN FRANCISCO — The Motion Picture Association of America and RealNetworks square off in a federal courtroom here Friday to determine the legitimacy of the Seattle-based tech company’s DVD copying...
View ArticleObama Revamps NSA Phone Metadata Spying Program
President Barack Obama announced today a revamping of the National Security Agency's vast surveillance powers by ending the government's bulk retention of records associated with every phone call made...
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Pirate Bay Bias Charge: ‘Random’ Judge Assignment Wasn’t
New allegations questioning the legitimacy of The Pirate Bay trial surfaced Friday when lawyers for the four file-sharing defendants accused the Swedish courts of secretly steering the case to a...
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Police Kill Hostage Taker Who Besieged Discovery Channel
After a daylong standoff, authorities shot and killed an armed man wearing an explosive device who had taken three hostages at the Discovery Channel’s headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, just...
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Yahoo Slams Facebook for ‘Retaliation’ in Patent Lawsuit
Facebook found and purchased eight software patents for the sole purpose of "retaliating" against Yahoo for its pending patent lawsuit against the social networking giant, Yahoo argued in a strongly...
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Ex-Employer, Not Secret Spying, Triggered Police Inquiry of ‘Pressure Cooker’...
A Long Island journalist set the internet aflame today by claiming that Joint Terrorism Task Force agents visited her house to find out why Google searches for “pressure cooker” and “backpack” were run...
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