Jun 28, 2001 | law, Microsoft
If you’re looking for more analysis, here’s a good article on the meaning and likely effect of the appeals court decision today.
Jun 28, 2001 | law, Microsoft
If you want a headstart on tomorrow’s headlines, here’s an article about today’s appeals court ruling vacating the remedies ordered by Judge Jackson and remanding the case back to a different trial judge. Microsoft also backed away from the...
May 22, 2001 | audio, DRM, file_sharing, law
There’s a lot to learn about the copyright issues symbolized by the war against Napster. Copyright owners are waging a concerted battle with a single-minded goal: to make your every exposure to copyrighted material into an event that costs you money. In 1998 the...
Apr 10, 2001 | audio, file_sharing, law
My lawyer friends will appreciate this story. Last week jurors in a federal court trial in New York awarded $300,000 to an independent record label for copyright violations – delivered as 145 individual awards, one for each infringed song. The defendant,...
Feb 28, 2001 | law, Microsoft
If you’re following the Microsoft hearings, the best part was the obvious distaste shown the by appellate panel for Judge Jackson’s outrageous anti-Microsoft ravings in the press. Here’s an article that quotes extensively from the oral arguments...
Feb 25, 2001 | law, Microsoft
As we head into the arguments in the Court of Appeals, here’s a good article that presents the case for leaving Microsoft alone. A sample: “STATED SIMPLY: Consumers want computers and applications that work together. They want a platform, and they want...
