Ft. Myers, FL - Over the last few years the Recording Industry Association of America has been filing law suits on behalf of their member labels against individuals "sharing" their music collections on line. Since that time several people have said, "No problem, I only download music from school. There is no way they can track me from there ( Read more... )

Ft. Myers, FL - Many of you know that my wife and I once owned and operated a private investigation, process serving and skip trace business. The process service part of the company takes legal papers, summons, subpoenas, orders, eviction notices, etc and hand delivers them to the intended. Most of the practitioners of this highly advanced game of ( Read more... )

Jacksonville, FL - Do you remember the the Port Improvement Act of 2006? That was the act designed to improve security at our ports. And the Congress of the United States decided that putting a stop to international gambling over the internet was a key element to that act ( Read more... )

In response to yesterday's post, tlatoani pointed me to this blog entry on the Volokh Conspiracy. He's got far more legal expertise then I do.

I'm heading up north for a White House Press pool but first I have to go to Tampe for some sports stuff. I'll catch up with you later.

When some arrogant web site says it doesn't? I found this little blurb at the bottom of an article from the North Country Gazette's web site:All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed by anyone without the express written permission of the publisher. This article is copyright protected and Fair ( Read more... )

So someone offers this link to me.

"No thanks," I say. "I'm not into Dr. Who and I don't have a bit torrent thing."

"Oh go on and look at. Trust me..." He says.

So I click on it to see what there is to see. ( Look under the cut to see a screen shot... )

The Duke University Law School has released a comic book covering fair use and copyright law. You can view it on line or down load it as a PDF file. I've only started reading it but it so far it's pretty good. We get to follow the heroine through the trials and tribulations of tip-toeing through mine field of intellectual property rights while ( Read more... )