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Home 27 Jul 2010 It's legal to jailbreak your iPhone, sort of Copyright Law Recent fairly breathless news coverage has said that the US government has said it's legal to jailbreak your iPhone. That's somewhat correct but the reality is, as usual, somewhat more complex. See more ... posted at: 22:58 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Copyright_Law/jailbreak.trackback 14 Jul 2010 One more round in E360 Insight vs. Spamhaus Email Back in 2007, the Seventh Circuit sent the case back to the trial court and it's been moving very, very, very slowly, mostly because E360 repeatedly failed to respond when they were supposed to. On June 11, Judge Korcoras made his decision. He found plaintiff David Linhardt's estimates of his losses rather unpersuasive, and awarded him $1 on claims of tortious interference with prospective economic advantage, and $1 for defamation. But he also awarded $27,000 for interference with E360's existing contracts, based on one month's revenue from his three customers Smart Bargains, Vendare, and Optinbig. A few days ago, Spamhaus' lawyers filed a very clever motion to reconsider. See more ... posted at: 23:37 :: permanent link to this entry :: 4 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/she360again.trackback 12 Jul 2010 Does the First Amendment forbid spam filtering? Email A friend of mine wrote to ask: The Supreme Court overturned the Jaynes conviction on First Amendment grounds, yes? I'm wondering what that could mean from the spam filtering perspective. Spam filters, and in particular DNS blacklists are intended to prevent e-mail from being delivered. Doesn't the First Amendment make it illegal to block speech? The short answer is no, but of course it's slightly more complicated than that in practice. See more ... posted at: 03:07 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/filter1st.trackback

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