
William Patry has decided to stop blogging. That is a real shame. His blog has, for the past four years, been one of my first ports of call when difficult copyright issues or cases come round. Where else can you get that depth of experience and analysis freely on tap but the Internet?

William Patry is rightly angry at the latest piece of entertainment industry corporate welfare legislation about to get passed by Congress.

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.