Header graphic for print
New Media and Technology Law Blog

Monthly Archives: December 2008

Free Software Foundation Files First Copyright Infringement Complaint to Enforce its GNU Licenses

Posted in Copyright, Open Source

 The Free Software Foundation has filed a copyright infringement complaint against Cisco Systems. The complaint alleges that Cisco’s Linksys products contain certain works in which the FSF holds the copyright, but Cisco has not complied with the requirements of the licenses pursuant to which the FSF makes the works available.   This is the first… Continue Reading

Appellate Watch: Are Domain Names “Property” That Can Be Seized Under State Forfeiture Laws?

Posted in Domain Names

UPDATE:  There is a brief account of the oral argument on the pokerlistings.com Web site. That’s the interesting issue that a Kentucky appeals court will consider on Friday in an interlocutory appeal from the ruling of a Kentucky trial court. In Commonwealth v. 141 Internet Domain Names, Case No. 08-CI-1409 (Ky Cir. Ct., Oct. 16,… Continue Reading