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PublicationCanadian Supreme Court Rules on Republication of Articles in Context of Electronic MediaCase Note on Robertson v. Thomson Corp., 2006 SCC 43. The case dealt principally with the question of whether publishers are free to republish in electronic databases articles they have accepted from freelance journalists for publication in their newspapers.Type: journal articleJournal: Bright IdeasVolume: 16Issue: 1
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PublicationDigital Case Notes: International Airport Centers, L.L.C., et al. v. Citrin and Krumwiede v. Brighton Associates, L.L.C.Summary of and commentary on two federal cases within the Seventh Circuit involving claims brought by employers against former employees: These cases highlight the perhaps increasingly serious repercussions for the destruction of digitally based evidence as well as for "cleaning up" too meticulously upon leaving the company. Additionally, they touch upon the issue of the increasing erosion of personal privacy in the digital environment--a problem to which employee privacy is not immune.Type: journal articleJournal: NY Business Law JournalVolume: 11Issue: 1
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PublicationType: journal articleJournal: ZZZ: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Zivilprozess- und ZwangsvollstreckungsrechtIssue: 12
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PublicationLicense to a View: Second Circuit Finds No Direct Infringement of Reproduction or Public Performance Rights by Digital Video Recording ServiceCase Note on Second Circuit case Cartoon Networks LP v. CSC Holdings, 536 F.3d 121 (2d Cir. 2008), petition for cert. filed, No. 08-448 (filed Oct. 6, 2008). The Second Circuit reversed the decision of the SDNY, finding that the operation of a digital video recording service proposed by a cable company would not represent direct copyright infringement of the plaintiffs' reproduction or public performance rights in their television programs.Type: case review (law)Journal: Bright IdeasVolume: 2008 (17)Issue: 3
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PublicationThree Case Studies from Switzerland : SmartvoteSince 2003, a diverse coalition of political scientists, computer scientists, economists, historians, and other specialists largely affiliated with universities have developed and made broadly available an online voter information system in Switzerland called Smartvote. By taking user input and candidate data about positions on various political issues, Smartvote ranks and matches citizens with the politician that best matches their preferences. This case study gives an overview of Smartvote, examining the design, administration, and development of the system into the future. While this initial assessment suggests that Smartvote possesses huge opportunities to improve access to information among the electorate, promote participation in elections, and increase transparency on political positions, it also suggests that there are several salient risks. These include biases in the survey tool that collects information for Smartvote, the impact of a largely opaque system of administrating Smartvote, and insufficiently rich data in matching voters to candidates. The case study suggests various improvements to the system, and suggests that Smartvote ultimately plays a positive role in increasing information accessibility to citizens in the voting process. Available at: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/sites/cyber.law.harvard.edu/files/Thurman-Gasser_SwissCases_Smartvote.pdf
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PublicationE-Compliance: Towards A Roadmap for Effective Risk Management( 2007)In the past decade, the legal system has done a remarkable job in absorbing the shockwaves of digital technology. As a result, the use of information and communication technologies in corpo-rate settings in general and E-Business solutions in particular have become business as usual not only for dot-com managers, but increasingly also for inhouse lawyers and outside counsel. The authors of this article, however, argue that the widespread use of digital communication technology on the part of business organizations leads at least in part (and most likely also la-tently) to new types of challenges when it comes to the management of risks at the intersection of law, technology, and the marketplace. In order to effectively manage these challenges and associ-ated risks in diverse areas such as security, privacy, consumer protection, IP, and content govern-ance, the authors call for an integrated and comprehensive compliance concept in response to the structural and substantive peculiarities of the digital environment in which corporations - both in and outside the dot-com industry - operate today. The article starts with a brief overview of what we might describe as a shift from traditional com-pliance to e-Compliance. It then maps the central themes of E-Compliance and the characteristics of a comprehensive E-Compliance strategy. After discussing the key challenges of E-Compliance, the article outlines practical guidelines for the management of E-Compliance activi-ties and ends with recommendations. Full text available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=971848.