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Archive for September, 2007

Upcoming Article on the FTC and Data Security Breaches

When it rains it pours!
Over the summer I completed another law review article, which will appear in Volume 60, Issue 1 of the Administrative Law Review (Winter 2008), published by American University’s Washington College of Law. The title of the article is “The FTC, the Unfairness Doctrine and Data Security Breach Litigation: Has the Commission [...]

Upcoming Article on Tort Liability for Insecure Software

A law review article I recently finished titled “Tort Liability for Vendors of Insecure Software: Has the Time Finally Come?” has been accepted for publication in Volume 67, Issue 2 of the Maryland Law Review (Winter 2008). The current draft of the article is now available for downloading here.
The abstract of the article is reprinted [...]

Victims of Data Security Breaches Left High and Dry

As the number of data security breaches continues to increase, and the number of persons who have their personal information exposed reach over 100 million, you would think these victims would have some remedy for the time and effort they have to go through to get their lives back in order. Yet, the cases have [...]

Fair Use Has Value

For many years (probably since fair use began), copyright owners have viewed fair use as some sort of government sponsored piracy of their creative efforts. But since a copyright has never been viewed as a monopoly, and the rights granted are constrained by the constitutional grant, fair use has always been viewed as part [...]