
This WEEK in LAW Does this interesting Australian copyright liability case have an international impact?
www.smh.com.au
The giants of the film industry have lost their case against ISP iiNet in a landmark judgement handed down in the Federal Court today.

This WEEK in LAW Does Facebook turn a blind eye to infringement and TOS violations when it comes to unlicensed images?
mashable.com
A look at the site’s terms of service reveals that the (sometimes) flattering pics may not be legally cool.

This WEEK in LAW Should Jammie Thomas have taken the RIAA's settlement offer?
www.wired.com
The recording industry is demanding Jammie Thomas-Rasset pay $25,000 to settle out of court the nation's first file sharing case against an individual to have

This WEEK in LAW If You Had Three Wishes, What Changes Would You Make in the Copyright Act? (Re linked conference hosted by the IP Section of the CA State Bar)
www.calbar.ca.gov
The Copyright Office comes to California, Santa Monica and San Francisco

This WEEK in LAW Should court proceedings be broadcast? (TV, YouTube, etc.)
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National Review Online

This WEEK in LAW No question there are a lot of lawyers out there; does that mean there are too many law schools?
ff.im
Remember the old joke about 20,000 lawyers at the bottom of the sea being "a good start"? Well, in an interesting twist, thousands of lawyers now find themselves drowning in the unemployment line as the legal sector is being badly saturated with attorneys. ...

This WEEK in LAW
Denise Howell
@TWiT My tech story of the decade is the two-way Web: http://vid.ly/bIip #twitdecade Happy episode #228+New Year!
vid.ly

This WEEK in LAW School regulation of student speech: how far should schools be able to go to curb cyberbullying?
www.latimes.com
One morning in May 2008, an eighth-grader walked into Janice Hart's office at a Beverly Hills school crying.She was upset and humiliated and couldn't possibly go to class, the girl told the counselor. ...

This WEEK in LAW Would you delete your tweet? (Remember, Everyone's a winner at Nixon Peabody...)

This WEEK in LAW What's *your* funniest Facebook snafu? Mine's a married male friend whose wife's profile pic was the family holiday portrait, while his was him surrounded by college cheerleaders, coupled with a relationship status of "it's complicated." Runner up: the friend who used our computer to log into FB, but then left us logg...ed in to his account when he departed...
www.huffingtonpost.com
Ever complained about your boss to your boss? Told your son you're getting divorced through a wall post?

This WEEK in LAW Is social networking the savior of privacy?
blogs.zdnet.com
I'm at the Privacy and the Social Web panel at Supernova, featuring lawyer/moderator Kraig Baker, Harriet Pearson (Security Counsel/Chief Privacy Offi

This WEEK in LAW Thoughts on Facebook's new privacy steps?
blog.facebook.com
It has been a great year for making the world more open and connected. Thanks to your help, more than 350 million people around the world are using Facebook to share their lives online. To make this possible, we have focused on giving you the tools you need to share and control your information...














