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Seizing Domain Names

October 23, 2008 13:06

A court in Kentucky has (ex parte) made an in rem judgment ordering the seizure of 141 domain names because, the court determined, they are “gambling devices” or “gambling records” under Kentucky legislation. Domain names, said the court, “are virtual keys for entering...

How Much Excerpting of the News is Acceptable?

March 02, 2009 15:42

Yesterday’s New York Times article Copyright Challenge for Sites that Excerpt by Brian Stelter explores the boundaries as to what is acceptable with regard to excerpting from news stories by other websites, and what is causing news publishers to become uncomfortable. When is it acceptable to...

Canadian Government Launches Internal Wiki

October 29, 2008 17:35

As reported on the front page of today’s Ottawa Citizen, the federal government has launched its own internal version of Wikipedia to which all federal public servants will be able to contribute: “At the annual Government in Technology (GTEC) conference, taking place at the Westin Hotel...

U.S. Embassy in Ottawa does Web 2.0

December 22, 2008 15:31

The U.S. Mission to Canada is pretty hip, serving up content the way you want it: podcast facebook twitter (@usembassyottawa) news feeds (RSS) Ambassador David Wilkins also apparently held “web chats”, the most recent his farewell chat held on December 11th (transcript here). I wonder...

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The future of collaborative communications?

May 30, 2009 02:04

A friend pointed me to what I think may be The Next Great Thing that may actually enable the dream of networked collaboration and communication. It’s Google Wave and it hasn’t left the labs yet. But if the video is any indication, it’s amazing: It’s a long video (an hour...

Scavenger Hunt Wraps Up on Sunday

May 29, 2009 22:58

The Slaw Scavenger Hunt challenge Scavenger Hunt is down to a handful of items - our prominent lawyer from Toronto has an insuperable lead, but let’s see whether the last 3 items can be guessed. I’ve amplified the big fat hairy hints we gave last week. The works are not so obscure...

Twittering Your Corporate Securities Information

May 29, 2009 18:47

The desire of publicly-listed corporations to use current communications in fulfilling their duty to disclose material information about their activities can run into the technical limits of (some of) the new media. There’s an article [PDF] by an American law firm on the topic – 8 pages in all. An ...

Resources on U.S. Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor

May 29, 2009 18:26

The Law Library of Congress in Washington has put together a list of resources on Sonia Sotomayor, U.S. President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court. The list is broken down into: articles/books by Sotomayor her U.S. Senate confirmation hearings at the lower levels of the U.S. federal...

The Friday Fillip

May 29, 2009 17:52

I just flew back from Halifax a few days ago and was made to think yet again how like bus travel flying has become. It’s all so routine — and so ubiquitous. What isn’t so routine, perhaps, is all of the complex communication that goes on behind the scene to enable us to get from...

Is Your Firm on Wikipedia?

May 29, 2009 14:50

Rupert White of the U.K. Law Society’s Gazette has a couple of articles on law firms’ use of Wikipedia: “Top 50 firms that get Wikipedia - and those that don’t” and “Why the world’s favourite encyclopedia matters.” His basic position is that a law...