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Factums in Commercial Products

Clearinghouse IWG — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:35:01 +0000

Two issues are circulating on this issue in both Canada and the US.

Courts providing briefs to commercial vendors the US perspective, This post also provides links to the copyright question noted as the second issue.

Question of copyright in briefs, factums, and other court documents prepared by lawyers/law firms. For developments in Canada check out the SLAW post.

Clearinghouse IWG — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:06:37 +0000

Head over to Professor M. Geist’s blog for highlights of the year’s technology law and policy issues, arranged alphabetically (librarian style!).

Clearinghouse IWG — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:22:26 +0000

US Supreme Court watching on issues related to technology:

Review of cases since October 2010 as monitored by Wired;
Warrantless GPS monitoring as reported by EFF;
EFF involvement in cases related to copyright issues before the Supreme Court – sale of first right and foreign authored public domain works.

And from other US court levels and international jurisdictions, EFF provides the following news items:

Clearinghouse IWG — Wed, 04 May 2011 19:01:55 +0000

David Canton over at Slaw has a post election comment. With the majority Harper government the Canadian Library Association also has some comments.

CCCT-CCTJ — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 05:01:00 +0000