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Home 30 Jan 2006 Court rules for Google in cache copyright case Copyright Law In a widely noted decision, a Nevada judge has handed down a ruling in favor of Google in a case in which attorney Blake Field sued Google for copyright infringement due to Google's web page cache keeping copies of his material. Read comments by the EFF, Red Herring, and Larry Lessig's blog. I am Google's technical expert in the case, and as you might expect, I am pleased that the judge found our position, including my report and declaration, so persuasive. posted at: 02:25 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Copyright_Law/field.trackback 23 Jan 2006 More TLDs: why and how ICANN This is a joint posting; John Levine is posting it to his blog and Paul Hoffman is posting it to his blog. Susan Crawford, a new member of the ICANN board, asked about auctions and lotteries for new gTLDs. Lots of people responded in the comments, and then the two of us kind of took over. We have now stopped, and are posting here. See more ... posted at: 23:10 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/ICANN/whydom.trackback 19 Jan 2006 Reflection on new TLDs ICANN While pondering the renewal prospects for the three sponsored TLDs, .aero, .museum, and .coop, I went back and looked at the original applications for those and also for the unsponsored TLDs approved at the same time, .BIZ, .INFO, .NAME, and .PRO. Two lessons leapt out at me See more ... posted at: 02:07 :: permanent link to this entry :: 5 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/ICANN/tldreflec.trackback 18 Jan 2006 DKIM and Mailing Lists Email It's fairly straightforward to see how DKIM applies to normal mail--I send the mail, my mail system signs it, you get it, and you check the signature from my mail system. But it's a lot less clear what the best approach is for mailing lists, the discussion type that forward messages from members out to the list. See more ... posted at: 17:18 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/dkimlists.trackback 06 Jan 2006 DKIM working group chartered Email The IETF finally chartered a working group to create a DKIM standard earlier this week. See this notice which includes the text of the charter and the rather aggressive schedule: See more ... posted at: 14:25 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/dkimcharter.trackback 04 Jan 2006 The Politics of E-mail Authentication, 2006 Edition Email A student at a well-known US university wrote me and asked whether, given the huge national interest in getting the industry to unite behind (at least) one format, did I think that the FTC should've played a stronger role in pushing the industry to adopt an authentication format? See more ... posted at: 23:17 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/authpolitics.trackback

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