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The Year In Tech Law

Posted by michael on from the law-and-order dept.

Selanit writes "CNet has an article rounding up the year in IP law. Perhaps the most interesting thing about this article is that the SCO case gets only one paragraph out of a fairly lengthy article. It's good to get a reminder that there are other issues out there, including content filtering in libraries, the potential for a tax on Internet access, pop-up ads, domain name legislation, and of course file-sharing."

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  1. Why is it surprising? by ObviousGuy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The SCO case introduces no new law. The case relies almost solely on existing law.

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  2. No Eldred mention? by tepples · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Why wasn't the Supreme Court's upholding of serial copyright term extension (Eldred v. Ashcroft) mentioned?

  3. the diffrent meanings of the term "IP" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If someone said "IP" last year, people in the tech-world would probably assume they were talking about the internet protocol.

    This year however, its all about "Intellectual Property"
    Sad..

  4. Re:SCO only getting 1 paragraph understandable... by AKnightCowboy · · Score: 5, Funny
    Pop-ups? Same thing, affects everyone, legislation in any direction would be interesting to all.

    Pop-up? What's a pop-up?

    -- Clueless Mozilla user.

  5. libraries and secret site lists by bodrell · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I find the ruling on libraries, requiring them to install site-blocking software, especially frightening. I know it's been said many times before, but plenty of legitimate sites get blocked--like those discussing reproductive health, or censorship itself. And although outright pornography isn't found in libraries, some books are considered pornography to conservatives. The best example I can think of is "Naked Lunch" by William S. Burroughs, which has some repulsive content, but the Supreme Court ruled it could not be banned as an obscene material. I'm sure an online text of the book would be filtered out.

    Of course then there's the software patenting nonsense. At least the patent office has enough sense to realize it needs to reform itself.

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