Legal personhood has a specific legal definition and it doesn't mean we mistake corporations for people. Some real people don't get some rights, and the legal personhood of a corporation doth not a fully legal person make.
Ars Technica – Law and Disorder
- What the NSA doesn’t have: iMessages and FaceTime chats
- Texas becomes first state to require warrant for e-mail snooping
- Pirate Bay co-founder can be extradited to Denmark over new hacking charges
- Snowden in online chat: NSA analysts can get “anything they want”
- It’s back: District court judge revives SCO v IBM
Techdirt
- 'Games Of War' Designer: Used Games Must Be Killed So Unsustainable Development Can Live
- Discovering Names Of Secret NSA Surveillance Programs Via LinkedIn
- Is Encryption Effective Against Snooping? German Government Says No, Snowden Says Yes
- Japan's Prime Minister Mocks TPP Protestors On Facebook
- British Intelligence Spied On G20 Officials' Phone Calls And Emails During 2009 Summit
The Art Law Blog
- "Some unutterably depressing reading"
- The other 90 cents are held in the public trust
- "[Michigan Attorney General] Bill Schuette says in a formal opinion released Thursday that the artwork 'is held by the City of Detroit in charitable trust for the people of Michigan.'"
- "There ought to be some type of criteria developed to articulate the public interest and policy goals with regards to assets"
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Posts Tagged ‘ Supreme Court ’
The Top Ten Supreme Court Copyright Holdings
The Constitutional grant of power allows copyright holders limited monopolies to incentivize further creative production. Does the case history bear this out?
The Creative Spark: Incentivizing Innovation
It isn't about money, it's about art. If economic protection incentivizes more innovation, awesome. If it is killing more creativity than it protects, well, then, it's unconstitutional.
Love and Marriage 2.0 – Interracial Marriage
Legal trends have followed cultural trends when restricting or enabling love and marriage. The controversy surrounding same-sex marriage is eerily close to the legal battle formerly surrounding interracial marriage. It used to be considered unnatural to marry across race - if God wanted different races to intermarry he wouldn't have put them on different continents.…
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