Riana wrote this article about the district court ruling in US v. #Anderegg “reiterating the constitutional right to private possession of obscene material (...) It is gratifying to see a court agree with my analysis and reiterate the continuing importance of Stanley.” #USA #politics #law
on 02026-08-25in the #history of #law, villages in #England had to build single-cell jails called “lock-ups”: “a place of temporary confinement for the reception of vagrants, paupers, felons and the like.” #policing
on 02026-08-12#Canada #law permits the use of “reasonable force” for a #citizens-arrest. #policing
on 02026-08-12Chevron deference was overturned in the #law of the #USA by Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimundo in 02024. #history
on 02026-08-05“The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that publishers and VPN providers aren’t liable for #copyright infringement” #law #human-rights #privacy
on 02026-07-30#PDF of the #FCC’s antepenultimate NOUO from March 25. This one is quite a bit spicier than the Jack Gerritsen and Conifer Communications ones: “The Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) received a complaint from Allegheny County Pennsylvania Emergency Services (Allegheny County) concerning interference to its 911 emergency communications channel operating on 470.4375 MHz in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. On July 30, 2025, Agents from the Columbia Office of the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau (Agents) conducted an investigation and determined, using direction finding techniques, that the source of the interference to the Allegheny County system was a signal emanating from the residence of David O. Knudtson (Knudtson), licensee of amateur radio station KD3ASC. After the Agents notified Knudtson of the interference issue, he produced a handheld radio (identified as a BTech UV-Pro). An examination of the radio determined that it had been modified to monitor the Allegheny County channel, and its “Audio Relay” feature had been activated. This feature turned Knudtson’s radio into a simplex repeater that was retransmitting the Allegheny County channel. Knudtson surrendered the radio to the Agents. Subsequently, the Agents verified that the interference to the Allegheny County system had ceased.” #communications #RF #radio #law
on 02026-06-02#PDF of the #FCC’s penultimate NOUO (“notice of unlicensed operation”), from April 1, to Conifer Communications: “The San Francisco Office of the Federal Communications Commission’s (Commission’s) Enforcement Bureau has received a complaint of an unlicensed radio station operating on frequency 10.915 GHz located in Moccasin Peak, California. On September 24, 2025, Agents from San Francisco Office confirmed during an on-scene investigation that Conifer Communications was transmitting on 10.915 GHz from Moccasin Peak, California, with a license that had expired on February 12, 2024, and was not renewed.” #communications #RF #radio #law
on 02026-06-02#PDF of one of the three “notices of illegal pirate radio broadcasting” (NIPRBs) the #FCC issued in April. #communications #RF #law #radio
on 02026-06-02Blog of #FCC enforcement actions, including the Jack Gerritsen Notice of Unlicensed Operation, which seems to be the only NOUO they’ve issued since April 1, when they issued another one. Also they issued three NIPRBs in April (“pirate radio” notices, similar to NOUOs), but two of them seem to have been about two #radio stations in Jamaica, New York, on 90.1MHz and 91.9MHz. #communications #RF #law
on 02026-06-02#Malta offered citizenship for €600k starting in 02014, but the #EU European Court of Justice ordered it to stop in 02025. #law
on 02026-05-29New #vegan-models called "talkie" trained entirely on public-domain material. #AI #law #copyright #LLMs #neural-networks
on 02026-04-28#AI and #copyright #law in the #politics of the #USA, #PDF of part 2, copyrightability: “This second Part of the Copyright Office’s Report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) addresses the copyrightability of outputs generated by AI systems. It analyzes the type and level of human contribution sufficient to bring these outputs within the scope of copyright protection in the United States.”
on 02026-04-27#AI and #copyright #law in the #politics of the #USA
on 02026-04-27#Law news: #Apple loses to #Epic in an en banc appellate confirmation of April’s “scathing” contempt-of-court ruling.
on 02025-12-12#DMCA subpoenas to unmask alleged #copyright infringers aren't valid against ISPs #law
on 02025-08-27#Texas #adverse-possession #law ranges from 3 years to 10 years depending on the circumstances.
on 02024-12-12“Belgium’s national #patent legislation defines research exemptions that allow sufficient room for research activities exempted from patent infringement that are vital for promoting innovation. Currently, #Belgium has one of the broadest research exemptions in Europe. Article XI.34 (1) (b) of the Code of Economic #Law provides that “the rights conferred by a patent do not extend to acts that are performed on and/or with subject matter of the patented invention for scientific purposes.”” However, this is being narrowed to “acts for experimental purposes that relate to the subject matter of the patented invention”. 02019-08-28. #politics
on 02021-12-14#history of Islamic #law in #Pakistan and how the role of the 'ulama has changed over time
on 02021-05-29Toner cartridge refills are legal under #USA #law according to a new US Supreme Court opinion in Impression v. Lexmark; patent rights exhaust at first sale, reversing a Federal Circuit decision. This decision also legalizes importing patented “grey market” cartridges, as long as they were sold by the patentee, which will likely have a major impact on pharmaceutical markets. The decision was nearly unanimous, except that Ginsburg dissented in part and Gorsuch abstained.
on 02017-05-30On freedom of speech, #censorship, #Wikileaks, and #USA #law. #human-rights
on 02016-10-17Judge Mayer in a concurring CAFC opinion declares that Alice outlawed most software #patents and also points out that patenting software can be an infringement on the First Amendment because software runs the internet. #USA #law
on 02016-10-06I just commented on HN about rule of #law, algorithmic decision making, and justice.
on 02016-07-24#pdf Posner #law opinion on Backpage.com #prostitution ads. Explains the business logic behind MasterCard and Visa complying with Sheriff Dart’s demand: “the potential cost to the credit card companies of criminal or civil liability and of negative press...may well have been very high”.
on 02015-11-30a book about different legal systems, aside from the civil and common #law systems, although unfortunately not very in depth.
on 02015-11-29Donald #Trump admits to #rape of Ivana Trump but claims a technicality in the #law keeps him safe.
on 02015-08-15