blogbook.orgA Guide to Legal BloggingUS v. Psycho- May 27, 2005 Now residing in the "Unusual Case Names" file is this recent sentencing opinion from the Ninth Circuit. If you enjoy double entendre, why not take the Case Name Challenge...http://blogbook.org/appellate/archives/000357.html DOJ Takes Down BitTorrent- May 25, 2005 Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division, John C. Richter just announced that members of the FBI and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement executed 10 search warrants across the country "against leading members of a technologically sophisticated P2P network...http://blogbook.org/tech_ip/archives/000356.html The Shrinking Public Domain- May 24, 2005 In Luck's Music Library, Inc. and Moviecraft, Inc. v. Alberto Gonzales, the D.C. Circuit affirmed a lower court ruling in favor of the U.S. Attorney General on the constitutionality of 514 of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA), codified...http://blogbook.org/appellate/archives/000355.html Legal Affairs on Blawgs- May 19, 2005 Legal Affairs editor Lincoln Caplan's article on Blawgs discusses the differences between general and legal weblogs. The article opens by mentioning the Supreme Court's citation of Douglas Berman's Sentencing Law and Policy Blog. It's exciting, in part, because judicial citation...http://blogbook.org/on_point/archives/000354.html Roll Out The California Barrel- May 16, 2005 New York and Michigan wine connoisseurs will be ecstatic to hear about today's Supreme Court news. In Granholm v. Heald, the Supreme Court of the United States invalidated two state laws that regulate the sale of wine from out-of-state wineries...http://blogbook.org/appellate/archives/000353.html InternetMovies.com Update- May 16, 2005 In a follow-up to the post on InternetMovies.com and the MPAA, the U.S. Supreme court has recently denied certiorari in Rossi v. MPAA, a DMCA case last heard by the Ninth Circuit in December 2004. According to this Andrews' article,...http://blogbook.org/appellate/archives/000352.html Broadcast Flag at Half-Mast- May 6, 2005 Today, in American Library Association, et al. v. Federal Communications Commission, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit blocked the FCC's "Braodcast Flag" rules. The controversial rules required digital television receivers (DTVs) to embed code into all transmitted...http://blogbook.org/appellate/archives/000351.html Lawyers Jumping Ship- May 6, 2005 Why are there so many uphappy lawyers This article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette mulls over the alarming rate of depressed lawyers leaving the profession -- 40,000 per year. That's roughly equal to the number of new attorneys entering each year....http://blogbook.org/ethics/archives/000350.html Standing on the Shoulders of Orphans- May 4, 2005 The US Copyright Office received over 700 submissions in response to its Notice of Inquiry that asked whether Congress should do anything about the "orphan works problem." Broadly speaking, Orphan works are any copyrighted works where the rights holder is...http://blogbook.org/tech_ip/archives/000349.html Survivor Reality Litigation- May 4, 2005 Today the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit published a trademark decision in Surfvivor Media, Inc. v. Survivor Productions. Very briefly, a surf & clothing company plaintiff, sued Survivor the TV show for infringement. This appellate decision affirmed...http://blogbook.org/appellate/archives/000348.html |