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Sentencing Law and Policy
Split Ninth Circuit panel affirms below-guideline probation sentence as reasonable
Main July 14, 2008Split Ninth Circuit panel affirms below-guideline probation sentence as reasonableFederal defense practitioners on the West Coast will be pleased to see the Ninth Circuit's latest reasonableness ruling…
LawSites
D-Day: 1.8M Pages of Case Law Released
The day we previewed here last week has arrived: The non-profit organization Public.Resource.Org today released 1.8 million pages of federal case law free of copyright or other restrictions, in a…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Fascinating Eighth Circuit case on restitution
Main February 1, 2008Fascinating Eighth Circuit case on restitutionA somewhat amusing set of facts leads to an Eighth Circuit opinion today addressing a very interesting set of legal issues in…
The Prior Art
SF Chronicle on RIAA lawsuits: swing and a miss.
By Jan Wolfe
Today’s San Francisco Chronicle fronts the Business section with a piece on the RIAA lawsuits, focusing on a UC Santa Cruz student who has received one of the many thousands…
Contemporary Intellectual Property, Licensing & Information Law
Are numbers protected expression?
No. At least not according to three judges of the Second Circuit. And as a result, one company’s valuable market estimates expressed in numerical form were subject to comprehensive misappropriation…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Worth a Read
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Late last month, in In re: Literary Works, the Second Circuit decided that the registration requirement of section 411(a) of the Copyright Act is jurisdictional and that, in a class…
The Competitor
SCC divided on key issues of copyright law and policy: Grey marketer prevails
Justine Whitehead, D. Jeffrey Brown On July 26, 2007, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) issued its decision in the case of Kraft Canada Inc. v. Euro Excellence Inc. The…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Ghostwriters in the Sky
There is a growing trend for authors and/or their estates to control the characters they have created from beyond the grave making "literary estates some of the most powerful in…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Copyrights and Estates
Lee-ford Tritt(Assistant Professor of Law, University of FloridaFredric G. Levin College of Law) has published his article, Liberating Estates Law From the Constraintsof Copyright, in 38 Rutgers L.J. 109 (2006).Here…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Merrill Lynch Limits Access to Research
MerillLymch is taking steps to limit access to the research reports it provides to its best customers, as it worries about its research "being Napsterized." Merrill Lynch and other firms…