Waiting for WiFi

The blood bank, which relies entirely upon volunteer donors, is always trying to boost participations with raffles and other promotions. There are plenty of us who would gladly pay in blood for a couple of quiet hours every now and again when we could recline in peace and read blogs and tweets.

Courtroom Security, Terror Version

In order to have the kind of security that a terror trial demands, people with other business of any kind must be totally excluded from the security perimeter.

Thus, the building to house a trial with the highest security would, of necessity, be a prison. So where is there a prison with both state of the art highest security and courtroom facilities?

Back to Guantanamo.

Whatever the political and symbolic drawbacks, it is safe.

PittsburghLegal on Twitter.

Posted by Cliff Tuttle (c) 2010 If you would like to be notified of new posts on this blog, together with a link, you can follow PittsburghLegal on Twitter. I’ll also re-tweet selected tweets by others that I find interesting. Most legal blogs maintain sites on Twitter these days and it is very quick and […]

Closing the Book.

I remember discussing the assignment with my mother and suggesting if she actually wanted to to know what the book was about, she ought to read it. Shortly thereafter, she became involved in a discussion at a cocktail party where some of the condemnations were heated, only to discover that she was the only person in the room who had actually read the book.

iPad iPad iPad iPadâ„¢

Fujitsu had US trademark rights on the name for quite a while and may still, perhaps. In 2001, Fujitsu iPads, which had been anemic grocery store point-of-sale computers, were used as a database by volunteers at the Vietnam Memorial. Fujitsi was declared to have abandoned the mark in April 2009, but apparently made a subsequent effort to reclaim it. Meanwhile a company that was apparently fronting for Apple has been registering the Mark around the world — in Europe, Canada and Hong Kong. This activity lead to rumors that the new tablet would be call iPad.

Caveat to “Public Radio to the People?”

Posted by Cliff Tuttle (c) 2010 My post yesterday on the sale of WDUQ was not intended to comment negatively on the management and staff of WDUQ. However, it could have been taken that way and one commenter did just that. He states that the GM of WDUQ is outstanding and suggests that WDUQ does […]

Linda E. Plowman, Tell Me Something Interesting About Copyright Law.

For a quick rule of thumb, think of this equation:
ORIGINAL (attributable to an author)
+ WORK OF AUTHORSHIP (falls into one of ~8 categories of works protectable by federal copyright law)
+ FIXED IN A TANGIBLE MEDIUM OF EXPRESSION (written, painted, embedded, recorded, on a computer screen for a period of ‘more than transitory duration’)
= PROTECTED BY FEDERAL COPYRIGHT LAW.

Public Radio to the People?

There is probably only one person in this town who cares enough, knows enough and knows the people who would be willing and able fund the venture. Yes, that person is Charlie Humphrey.

Its a New Game.

In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, a 5-4 majority, held that the First Amendment did not permit Congress to punish citizens, or associations composed of citizens, for expressing political opinions and struck down provisions of the McCain-Feingold Act. The majority held that there there was no principled way to distinguish between political commentary on media such as Fox News and similar commentary from a non-media group or organization, including through blogs.

Deep End May Be Pretty Shallow.

Posted by Cliff Tuttle (c) 2010 There seems to be a certain amount of interest in the blawgs concerning the ABC prime time series “Deep End” which premieres on Thursday night. It seems to be Grey’s Anatomy for lawyers. Instead of interns, they stock the show with new lawyers going to work for a Wall […]

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