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The Register published an interesting article on how the Supreme Court’s techies sent out e-mail messages with PDF attachments of Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly’s rulings on Microsoft, two hours prior to the announcement of their availability. The Planet PDF weblog was actually a recipient of one of the e-mail messages, and posted a copy of the …
From Salon, Money talks, Microsoft walks; from CBSMarketWatch, Microsoft foes find fault, vow to fight; Washington Post Special Report on the Microsoft Case; from the New York Times, Life With Microsoft Still Stifling for Rivals; from SFGate, Microsoft wins antitrust battle; from the Seattle Times, How Microsoft strategy paid off; and from SiliconValley.com, Microsoft gets …
Law.com’s Supreme Court Monitor has a number of useful resources that include: links to topical news and commentary from the American Lawyer Media family of publications; cases from the 2000 term to current (fee-based for full-text access), abstracts of cases by subject (fee-based for full-text of the decisions), and cases in which cert. was granted, …
Via Slashdot: Final Decree, Memorandum Opinion, Public Interest Order, Opinion on the State Settlement, and the State Settlement Order. See Microsoft’s PressPass for the company’s official response to the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.’s decision, along with links to an extensive library of documents on the case.
This Chronicle of Higher Education article profiles this shy man whose love of the great books and his fight to make them freely available on the web has resulted in a national focus on the Supreme Court case that bears his name.
The Supreme Court transcript in Eric Eldred, et al., Petitioners v. John D. Ashcroft, Attorney General, No. 01-618 October 9, 2002, Wednesday, Washington, D.C., was posted here.
The Google News Beta has a quick and easy canned search to follow news stories on the Eldred v. Ashcroft case. http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2002/10/20021010_a_main.asp
The Difficult Balance Between Liberty and Security is an op-ed by George Washington University law professor Jeffrey Rosen. He notes that there will not likely be much balance in regard to upcoming decisions involving security and technology issues in light of the broad application of the Patriot Act.
On October 9, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the much heralded case of Eldred v. Ashcroft that challenges the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA), which extended by 20 years (and in some cases even longer) the duration of existing and future copyrights. Stanford Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig, will represent Eric Eldred, …
From the Legal Information Insitute (LII) at Cornell University, here is a useful site that organizes the Court’s decisions by topic, also providing a brief synopsis of each case, the date decided, and a link to the full-text.
