
Google has submitted an interesting set of views to the US trade representative's call for comments on the Anti-counterfeiting trade alliance, ACTA.

From Wired: Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement: Fact or Fiction?

From the Ottawacitizen:

Busy times at the moment with a lot going on in my day job and a lot going on in cyberlaw as ever. Yesterday the US Supreme Court, in a 7-2 decision, upheld Congress's latest effort to tackle child abuse facilitated by the Net, the 2003 PROTECT Act.

Busy times at the moment with a lot going on in my day job and a lot going on in cyberlaw as ever. Yesterday the US Supreme Court, in a 7-2 decision, upheld Congress's latest effort to tackle child abuse facilitated by the Net, the 2003 PROTECT Act.

The RIAA has outlined to the Chronicle of Higher Education how it tracks files sharers.
"To catch college students trading copyrighted songs online, the Recording Industry Association of America uses the same file-sharing software that online pirates love, an RIAA representative told The Chronicle at the organization's offNo votes yet

Michael Geist points me to another important story in the US: the Internet Archive challenged the FBI's serving of a national security letter late last year and the FBI has now withdrawn the request for a patron's details.

Michael Geist points me to another important story in the US: the Internet Archive challenged the FBI's serving of a national security letter late last year and the FBI has now withdrawn the request for a patron's details.