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• Countries Are Still Negotiating ACTA, Still Keeping It Secret

  Body: The Washington Post's personal technology columnist, Rob Pegoraro, provided an update this week on negotiations of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement ("ACTA"), a multilateral agreement that we have chronicled in this blog before.  The update,…

• Ninth Circuit Applies National Standard to Regulation Under Miller of Obscenity Transmitted By E-mail

  Body: In a recent opinion, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit applied a national standard to assess whether the CAN-SPAM Act is unconstitutional when applied to the sending of obscene content by…

• Amended Google Books Settlement Agreement Goes Public

  Body: Late Friday night, the plaintiffs in the Google Book Search case filed the parties' proposed Amended Settlement Agreement.  A redline copy of the Amended Settlement Agreement, provided by The Public Index, and the plaintiffs'…

• District Court Judge Denies Motion to Tweet from Courtroom

  Body: United States District Judge Clay D. Land of the Middle District of Georgia has denied a motion by the Columbus Ledger-Inquirer to allow one of its reporters to send live twitter messages to the newspaper's…

• Court Halts Photographers' Attempt to Intervene in Google Books Case

  Body: Judge Denny Chin yesterday put an end to an attempt by the American Society of Media Photographers and other photographers' organizations to intervene in the Google Books case when he denied the photographers' motion…

• Sixth Circuit Affirms District Court's Judgment in "Atomic Dog" Case

  Body: George Clinton's 1982 funk standard Atomic Dog was the subject of an opinion handed down by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit yesterday in Bridgeport Music, Inc., et al. v. UMG…

• Former employer’s claims under CFAA and SECA survive motion to dismiss the complaint

  Body: The following discussion is from an NP Alert and follows up on our prior exploration in this blog of Lasco Foods, Inc. v. Hall and Shaw Sales, Marketing & Consulting, LLC, et al. (E.D.…

• E.D. Mo.: Access By Employees May Be Unauthorized Under CFAA, SECA

  Body: The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri held in a recent opinion that an employer suing a former employee can state a cause of action under the Computer Fraud and…

• FCC Votes to Move Forward With Net Neutrality Rules

  Body: The Federal Communications Commission voted today to proceed with rulemaking on Net Neutrality, endorsing the desire of Chairman Julius Genachowski.  The Washington Post has more here. Category: Internet Law;Legislation and Policy Published: 10/22/2009 1:27…

• The Government Briefs Bilski

  Body: In its Brief as respondent in Bilski v. Kappos, the Government has taken the position before the Supreme Court that the patentable subject matter must be tethered to technology, and that the Federal Circuit’s…