April 2010 Archives

• David Weinberger on the Ebert-inspired brouhaha on whether video games can be art. Personally, I think that if The Manhole isn't art, then I don't know what is.
• Simon Singh wins against the British Chiropractic Assocation when the BCA gives up.
• Ethan Zuckerman on digital freedom at Freedom House.
• Looks like Elena Kagan wouldn't actually have to recuse herself from too many cases if she's appointed to be one of the Supremes.
• David Sasaki on digital suburbs and dropping out and tuning in.
• The ITC says that suing people for patent infringement isn't a domestic industry.

• The UK Parliament shoves through an ill-considered "Digital Economy" law.
• The Georgia Supreme Court (Georgia the state, not the country) finds that caps on non-economic damages are unconstitutional under the Georgia constitution.
• The Wall Street Journal Law Blog on how conflicts are keeping big firms from booking new business.
• Finally, two reaction pieces to the Comcast/FCC ruling: David Weinberger suggests that the time is ripe for reclassifying broadband, while Techdirt looks at the political foodfight that will probably be the outcome of the ruling.

• Apparently, the 3rd Circuit has held that defective sperm can't be the grounds for a products liability suit.
• In related news, the iBooks bad word filter doesn't like the word sperm, which makes reading Moby-Dick a little difficult.
• Wendy Seltzer argues that the DMCA is an unconstitutional restriction on free speech.
• Susan Crawford on the lack of competition in the US broadband market and why consumers don't like it (even if they don't know that they don't like it).
• An interesting look at how to resolve choice of law questions in international commercial contracts in an upcoming paper by John Coyle.

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