I can finally have conversations without appending "I have to warn you that I'm not a licensed attorney and can't give legal advice." That's right, I just got sworn in and got my license! I'M AN ATTORNEY!
And no, not in a lightning bolt like you all expected.
I'm studying for the Bar Exam, which is tomorrow. I had just done a few sets of questions, each set containing 25 questions. I was trying to figure out my rough score, so went to Google and typed in my first one: 17/25. Google calculator gave me the percentage, but it also performed a Google search for "17" and "25" in close proximity.
The results that came back were mostly a Bible verse - Isaiah 65: 17-25. And what prophecy does Isaiah have for someone studying for the Bar? The verse quoted says "the former things shall not be remembered or come to mind."
... I'm supposed to know that if a farmer can't perform his contract duties due to a crop failure, he is excused from those duties if he makes a pro rata apportionment of his crop to the other parties to the contract(s).
I know the phrase "when am I ever going to need this?" gets thrown around a lot in the study process, but, seriously, come on ...
In line with Rick's last post, I just wanted to let people know that my fourth published article is now available. It's called Can You Do A Wayback On That? The Legal Community's Use of Cached Webpages In And Out Of Trial. You can read it here.
Marta, are we still competing for number of published articles? That makes four for me, and I have an agreement to have my fifth published this year. That one will be about Google's European Copyright litigation. I've been asked to write a sixth to come out in 2008. How you doing on these?
I just handed in my absolutely last, final, complete draft of "Can You Do a Wayback on That?" That's my most recent publication, and my most extensive one. Look for it in the Journal of Science and Technology Law in a few weeks.
There's a new post on Atheisms, Nontheist Member of Congress to Come out of the Closet.
Rick recently posted about California's proposal to ban incandescent light bulbs. An environmental group in Australia decided to campaign for the same from the Aussie government: they planned to announce their campaign next week.
But, it looks like the government decided to steal the environmentalists' thunder, as Australia has decided to become the first country to ban the incandescent bulb.
I just got the go ahead to write my fifth published article, tentatively set to come out in the Summer edition of the Journal of Science and Technology Law.
The topic is going to be International Copyright Law. Yesterday, a Belgian court ruled against Google in a decision called Copiepresse v. Google, Inc.. The case was about Google News. Most people know you can search for news stories on Google - you'll get a headline, a few lines of the story, and a link to the news agency's website. Copiepresse, representing a dozen Belgian news agencies, sued Google for copyright infringement. Yesterday, the Belgian court affirmed a September ruling against Google.
I'll be discussing why this has some nasty implications for European Fair Use law in general, and the fate of the Internet itself if the ruling is allowed to stand and be expanded.
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