MICROSOFT NEWS

If you want a headstart on tomorrow’s headlines, here’s an article about today’s appeals court ruling vacating the remedies ordered by Judge Jackson and remanding the case back to a different trial judge. Microsoft also backed away from the...

DIGITAL COPYRIGHT

There’s a lot to learn about the copyright issues symbolized by the war against Napster. Copyright owners are waging a concerted battle with a single-minded goal: to make your every exposure to copyrighted material into an event that costs you money. In 1998 the...

JURORS MISCALCULATE MP3.COM DAMAGES

My lawyer friends will appreciate this story. Last week jurors in a federal court trial in New York awarded $300,000 to an independent record label for copyright violations – delivered as 145 individual awards, one for each infringed song. The defendant,...

SLAMMING JUDGE JACKSON

If you’re following the Microsoft hearings, the best part was the obvious distaste shown the by appellate panel for Judge Jackson’s outrageous anti-Microsoft ravings in the press. Here’s an article that quotes extensively from the oral arguments...

WHY MICROSOFT SHOULDN’T BE BROKEN UP

As we head into the arguments in the Court of Appeals, here’s a good article that presents the case for leaving Microsoft alone. A sample: “STATED SIMPLY: Consumers want computers and applications that work together. They want a platform, and they want...

FINDLAW ACQUIRED BY WEST

If you’ve been using Findlaw for its wealth of law-related resources (including free California cases and codes), then you may be interested to learn that West Group has agreed to acquire Findlaw. Here’s an article with all the information known to date....