Saw in the NY Times this morning that California has coming into effect soon a ban on foie gras. For those that don’t remember Chicago for a time passed a similarly dumb law. Why do I say dumb? Well for one foie gras is misunderstood – go watch how it’s made, the animals treated and [...]
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Interesting post over at TechCrunch discussing a number of legal issues touching on daily deals (and how they may be violating laws, especially consumer protection). Like any area that is new and evolving its unclear what daily deals (Groupon, Living Social, Faveroo here in Columbus among others) are and you might be able to fit [...]
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Headed out west for a couple days tomorrow and figured I mention a few interesting things I saw recently, so just a hodgepodge post: Coldplay is being sued for copyright infringement for their song Viva la Vida by guitarist Joe Satriani, (see a YouTube video comparison) check out his much lesser known song in comparison [...]
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Two Ohio college presidents are among dozens nationwide who are asking lawmakers to consider whether the legal drinking age should be lowered from 21. College presidents seek to re-examine drinking age – Cleveland Metro News – The Latest Breaking News, Photos and Stories from The Plain Dealer. I have long thought our nations mandated 21 [...]
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The free software movement had a tough choice of whether to appeal a lower court decision that held freely distributed software couldn’t be protected through the use of copyright infringement claims (only contract claims). The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C. overturned the lower decision saying that despite the traditional [...]
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit just overturned a lower court’s March 2007 ruling, which found Cablevision’s Remote Storage Digital Video Recorder infringed on copyrights. The Second Circuit held that offsite DVRs were not copyright violations (could still head to Supreme Court some think), paving the way (for now) for cable companies [...]
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Speeding tickets are one of the more annoying things to deal with, there is a certain helplessness that most people feel in terms of the ability to fight a supposed radar gun reading. An interesting case is taking place out west on the subject where a teen was nabbed for speeding, the only difference between [...]
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Chicago has by the same large margin that they instituted a foie gras ban, repealed their ban on the sale of fois gras, something that many, including myself thought was pretty ludicrous. Why ban foie gras? well some would argue (and do) that its inhumane, but if Chicago really cares about animals they’d probably be [...]
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An interesting case from the other side of the pond (fictional mind you) from column of the late Miles Kingston, humor columnist for the Independent (via Volkoh conspiracy blog) : “A most extraordinary trial is going on in the High Court at the moment in which a man named Chrysler is accused of stealing more [...]
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Been very slow on the posts recently, not really for a lack of subject matter, but rather time as work has been busy combined with a lot of travel over the last few weeks, including San Francisco and San Antonio, both places I’ve never been before and an unintended night in Memphis where Northwest Airlines graciously stuck [...]
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