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Corporate statements and free speech

Sat, 14 Dec 2002 12:00:00 +0000

An interesting legal conundrum. When Nike was accused of running sweatshops in Asia, it responded with press releases and ads claiming that it did not. Marc Kasky filed a case saying that Nike was advertising unfairly, and won. Now corporates are raising the question of whether corporate statements are free speech, and can be similarly protected.

DeCSS haikus

Sat, 12 Jan 2002 12:00:00 +0000

A truly inspired way of describing DeCSS: DeCSS haikus. (I hope linking to it is not illegal.)

DeCSS is legal

Sun, 04 Nov 2001 12:00:00 +0000

Preliminary indications are good. DeCSS is legal (so far.)

Early hits of Sep 11 attack

Tue, 25 Sep 2001 12:00:00 +0000

Unfortunate, but among the early hits of the attack are privacy and free speech.

Cracking DVDs

Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:00:00 +0000

Two MIT students have written a 7-line program that unscrambles protected DVDs. It’s downloadable. The legal issue is whether source code deserves protection on par with freedom of expression.

Freedrive closes

Tue, 30 Jan 2001 12:00:00 +0000

Freedrive closes public storage space. Along with Napster, that’s a nail in the coffin of free software. But what about the argument that code is speech, and hence “free speech”?