lead to damages award against it. Larry Lessig reports: EFF and CIS received news of a huge victory yesterday in the Diebold case. In an opinion released yesterday, the Court held 512(f) of the DMCA could be used affirmatively against the company for its baseless claims of copyright infringement brought against the Swarthmore students who […]
Archive | October, 2004
And while I’m bragging
about my coblogger Orin’s success, here’s something from a UPI story about Sen. John Cornyn’s press conference on that decision holding unconstitutional a secret subpoena: [Sen.] Cornyn noted that the erroneous coverage was apparently first spotted by a George Washington University law professor named Orin Kerr, who wrote about it on a web site call […]
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The Volokh Conspiracy Gets Results:
In light of yesterday’s posts (see here and here) on how the press misreported Wednesday’s court decision allegedly striking down part of the Patriot Act, it is worth pointing to the first item on the Corrections Page of today’s New York Times: An article yesterday about a judge’s ruling to invalidate some federal surveillance powers […]
Naming the New D.C. Baseball Team:
I firmly believe that professional sports team names should reflect something important about the city. For example, the “New Orleans Jazz” was a great name, the “Utah Jazz” an abomination. I’ve been thinking about names for the new D.C. baseball team. As a resident of the region, I’m partial to the “Washington Stuck in Traffics,” […]
A comment on the debates.
–I personally find it hard to watch either Bush or Kerry speak, especially when it counts, such as in a debate. Both did a little better than I thought they would. I thought Kerry won on style and Bush won on substance, though Kerry certainly had some moments where he gave strong answers that would […]