Cell Phones, the Fourth Amendment, and the Ohio Supreme Court
Arrested with an iPhone, Blackberry, Palm Pre, or some other smartphone on you? Were you carrying your fancy new Netbook? Officers can search you upon arrest in order to protect themselves, inventory...
View ArticleGarage Door Openers and the DMCA’s Anti-Circumvention Provision
Ars Technica, a website chock full of useful articles for any tech lover, has an interesting and lengthy examination of how law and technology interact when it comes to garage door openers. People...
View ArticleIs a data center liable for defamatory or harassing websites? No.
There are three categories of folks who may have control over a website’s content at any given time. These are (1) the website owner, (2) the web hosting company, and (3) a data center used by the web...
View ArticleOpen WIFI Access Points — Should you use them, or is that illegal?
You are away from home or you office yet you need the internet, and you need it fast. Your smartphone has it, but your files and program are on your laptop. No sweat, you’re downtown near a bunch of...
View ArticleStrip searches of the mind: Why the government can search your laptop at the...
Can the Government search your laptop computer when you cross the border? Yep. It’s called the border search exception. No warrant or reasonable suspicion is required, and it doesn’t just apply to...
View ArticleHow Auto-Tune the News made me look at the DMCA and copyright law
My 18-month old daughter and I watch Auto-Tune the News on our AppleTV in the mornings while her mother prepares her daycare bag and I try to function pre-coffee. One morning we clicked on AutoTune the...
View ArticleWhy Bitcoin isn’t a security under federal securities law
There are questions as to whether Bitcoin falls under the regulations of federal securities law. Federal securities law is a complex area of law that grants courts and the SEC great leeway in...
View ArticleThe iBooks Author EULA: What does it really mean?
Apple has announced iBooks Author—a new program that makes it easy for anyone to create stunning and compelling eBooks. The End User License, however, restricts anything made with iBooks Author to...
View ArticleThe iBooks Author EULA does not create an exclusive license, and doesn’t...
This is a follow up to my previous post on the iBooks Author End User License Agreement (EULA) and what it actually means. Rather than posting an update to that post, I decided to follow it up with a...
View ArticleWhy deleting your Pinterest boards over copyright concerns is an overreaction
Kirsten Kowalski of DDK Portraits wrote a blog post about why she “tearfully” took down her Pinterest boards. The reason she gave was her concern over copyright infringement and the liability she felt...
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