Why the Digital Millennium Copyright Act Is a Failure of Reason
What technologists consider speech, lawyers and courts consider hardware. Therein lies the problem with building effective legislation around code.
Andrew Grosso
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Legally Speaking: The Individual in the New Age
There's nowhere to hide if one wishes to be a part of normal society.
Once upon a time, nations laid claim to three-mile, off-shore extensions of their jurisdictions. Any nation desiring to send its ships within three miles of another nation’s coast either obtained permission first, or risked having its ships fired-upon, cannon-damaged, and sunk. There was nothing magical about the measure of three miles: it simply represented the […]
Legally Speaking: the Economic Espionage Act: Touring the Minefields
In order to protect homegrown secrets from foreign competitors, the U.S. Congress concocted the EEA, a cause of broad concern on the domestic front.
Legally Speaking: the Promise and Problems of the No Electronic Theft Act
The information age has generated its fair share of new statutes, some of which may be considered criminal.
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