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Monthly Archives: November 2007

So why is it difficult to properly legislate for Cyberspace?

28th
Nov. ร— โ€™07
By Kevin A. Thompson
Ryan Blitstein asks this question in a great article at the Mercury News, here is the link. To summarize, the difficulties include legislators who don’t understand the technology, as well as companies that fight good laws because the proposed law hurts their bottom line. Special interests, as usual, appear to have more sway than implementing [...]
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IPLAC High Tech Committee – 11/16/2007

6th
Nov. ร— โ€™07
By Kevin A. Thompson
The first of the IPLAC High Tech Committee’s lunchtime discussions will be held on November 16, 2007 at John Marshall Law School from 12-1:30. As the chair, I can say that I am really excited to have this come together. If you can join us, please do! The details on how to register are in [...]
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Quick Links

5th
Nov. ร— โ€™07
By Kevin A. Thompson
Here are a few short items of interest I’d like to pass along: 1) Conrad Jacoby has a great article on the electronic discovery of employee-owned computer equipment that was published at llrx. Here is a link. 2) If you’ve not already seen Michael Wesch’s video called Information R/evolution, check it out now. It only [...]
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