- Where Will Consumers Find Privacy Protection From RFIDs?: A Case for Federal LegislationBy: Serena G. Stein With the birth of RFID technology, businesses gained the ability to tag products with practically invisible computer chips that relay information about consumer behavior to remote databases. Such tagging permits ...
- Is Kelly Shifting Under Google’s Feet? New Ninth Circuit Impact on the Google Library Project LitigationBy: Cameron W. Westin The Google Library Project presents what many consider to be the perfect fair-use problem. The legal debate surrounding the Library Project has centered on the Ninth Circuit’s Kelly v. Arriba ...
- Does Information Beget Information?By: Dennis S. Karjala Using the language of mathematics, Professor Polk Wagner has recently argued that the impossibility of fully appropriating the value of information in a rightsholder leads to the surprising conclusion that ...
- T-Mobile USA Inc. V. Department of Finance for Baltimore City: What the Latest Salvo in Disproportional Cellular Phone Taxation Means for the FutureBy: Daniel P. Slowey Seventeen percent of the average monthly cellular phone bill in 2004 was comprised of federal, state, and local taxes. As the number of wireless subscribers across the nation continues to ...
- Newsgroups Float Into Safe Harbor, and Copyright Holders Are SunkBy: Alicia L. Wright Usenet newsgroups are swiftly becoming a popular vehicle for pirating digital music, movies, books, and other copyrighted works. Meanwhile, courts ignore Usenet’s tremendous potential for copyright infringement. In Ellison v. ...