Day archives: November 2nd, 2011

New on LLRX.com – The Digital Death of Copyright's First Sale Doctrine

via LLRX.com – The Digital Death of Copyright’s First Sale Doctrine: An important copyright case won’t be argued in the Supreme Court, which on October 3, 2011 declined to review Vernor v. Autodesk, a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision involving the applicability of copyright’s first sale doctrine to transactions involving software and other digital …

Subjects: Copyright, E-Commerce, Legal Research

Economic Projections of Federal Reserve Board Members and Federal Reserve Bank Presidents, November 2011

“The Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday released the attached table and charts summarizing the economic projections made by Federal Reserve Board members and Federal Reserve Bank presidents for the November 1-2 meeting of the Committee. The table will be incorporated into a summary of economic projections released with the …

Subjects: Government Documents

CDC – November 2011 Vital Signs Issue: Prescription Painkiller Overdoses in the US

CDC Vital Signs, November 2011: “Deaths from prescription painkillers have reached epidemic levels in the past decade. The number of overdose deaths is now greater than those of deaths from heroin and cocaine combined. A big part of the problem is nonmedical use of prescription painkillers—using drugs without a prescription, or using drugs just for …

Subjects: Government Documents

Capitalisation of bank exposures to central counterparties – consultative document

Capitalisation of bank exposures to central counterparties – consultative document, November 2, 2011 “The Basel Committee issued today its second consultative paper on the Capitalisation of bank exposures to central counterparties. The Committee’s proposals relate to the capitalisation of bank exposures to a central counterparty (CCP) and cover both capital requirements for default fund exposures …

Subjects: Government Documents