After hundreds of comments were received asking him to restore the blog archives, William Patry restored the public archives of the Patry Copyright Blog.  Patry’s blog contains over 800 articles on copyright case law, copyright legislative developments, and strategic approaches to contemporary copyright-related legal situations.  I highly recommend Patry’s blog — it’s required reading if [...]

William Patry, one of the most well-known and nationally respected copyright practitioners, has explained his reasons for terminating his long-standing Patry Copyright Blog in a final post:
http://williampatry.blogspot.com/
Patry cites the “depressing state of copyright law” and the direction of recent copyright law developments as among his personal and professional reasons for not continuing the blog.
His contributions [...]

Finjan, a data security services firm, reported today that more than 500 megabytes of stolen medical and business data and Social Security Numbers (SSNs) have been found on “crimeservers” in Malaysia and Argentina. The data were stolen from systems for a major airline and a health care provider using widely available hacker toolkits, [...]

A number of news sources and commentators are reporting this week on a University of Washington white paper criticizing the recent development of using automated processes (’bots’ or monitoring agents) against BitTorrent and other heavy bandwidth users to generate automated DMCA takedown demands.  Many takedown demands are based solely on observed patterns of Internet [...]

It was inevitable, and now it’s “official”: the 2008 Economic Stimulus Payment is the new Nigerian scam.
A few of my clients this week reported receiving one or more phishing emails about the 2008 Economic Stimulus Payment from the US government. Then I received one myself this morning. (”Gee, how could the [...]

A package of bills (with broad bipartisan support) was under consideration Tuesday in the Michigan Capitol which will provide business tax incentives to film producers, video game developers, and other entertainment based ventures. The key component of the legislation introduced last week is a 40% business tax break for firms engaged in moviemaking in [...]

My article “Enforcing Rights Against Online Infringers: Brandishing the Double-Edged Sword of the DMCA” is being published in the upcoming State Bar of Michigan Litigation Section Newsletter (Winter 2008).
The article discusses the legal ramifications for rights owners in using “takedown” procedures and cease-and-desist letters under Section 512 of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act.
A preview copy [...]

A federal class action lawsuit in California against Target, brought by plaintiffs claiming the discount retailer’s Web site is inaccessible to the blind, has been allowed to go forward.
The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Title III provides that “goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations” of places of “public accommodation” must be made [...]

Here’s an update to my post on The Cult of the Amateur, Andrew Keen, and “the Wikipedia Problem.”
Virgil Griffith, a CalTech graduate student, has built a search tool that traces the addresses of those who are editing Wikipedia.
The not surprising answers: Diebold — to suppress criticism of their electronic voting machines and to play down [...]

Probably everyone reading this has a broadband internet connection. But if you’re like me, you have parents and other significant people in your lives for whom you are the “IT Department.” Holiday time may involve sessions sitting at a vintage Windows machine with an installation of Millenium Edition because “email is broken.” And the [...]