Faculty Awareness Bulletin

According to the the head of the European Union’s group of data privacy regulators, “IP addresses, string of numbers that identify computers on the Internet, should generally be regarded as personal information.”  A report is due out soon regarding “how well the privacy policies of Internet search engines operated by Google Inc., Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. and others comply with EU privacy law.”  For more details, go here.

Topics: Intellectual Property Law

Take a look at this article that was posted to SSRN by Aaron Schwabach, Professor of Law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law.

Topics: Intllectual Property Law

On Monday, The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit dismissed a challenge to the constitutionality of changes to copyright law made in the 1990s. The Court affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of Kahle v. Gonzales.  For more details, go here.

Topics: Intelletual Property Law

The Christian Science Monitor recently published “The YouTube World Opens An Untamed Frontier for Copyright Law” by Daniel Wood.

 Topics: Intellectual Property; News & Events 

Franklin Pierce Law Center is looking for papers for its 2006/2007 Academic Year Publication.

For submission guidelines, go to: http://www.idea.piercelaw.edu/Call.htm