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Federal Courts Sound The Alarm Against RECAP; Worried About PACER Profits
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| We've been excited to see what would happen with the RECAP Firefox extension,
| which is being used to help free up public domain court documents that have
| been locked up behind the PACER paywall. However, there were also questions
| about how the folks who run and/or benefit from PACER would react.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090824/0452165974.shtml
Federal court using scare tactics to block sharing of public records
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| It appears that the US Courts, concerned about competition from software that
| offers the possibility of widespread free access to documents filed on
| federal judicial dockets, for which the public would otherwise have to pay
| the courts at the rate of 8 cents a page, are ready to resort to scare
| tactics to discourage lawyers from using that software.
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http://pubcit.typepad.com/clpblog/2009/08/federal-court-using-scare-tactics-to-block-sharing-of-public-records.html
"everytime you say things like this i just think of that cult of people
who send around .doc files. i dont want to communicate with people who
talk in .doc format, but they do not wish to use something else, so
they discredit those without word." --Ed, c.o.l.a.
Recent:
RECAP Used To Show Vacated Rulings That A Judge Wanted Gone
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| Last week, we wrote about the launch of RECAP, a neat little tool for making
| sure that more public domain court rulings are actually accessible to the
| public (what a concept). Apparently, the tool is already useful. Thomas
| O'Toole points us to the news of someone who used RECAP to point to rulings
| that were vacated and then (oddly) ordered to be removed from various
| databases.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090819/1913215936.shtml
Finnish CSS case application lodged in the European Court of Human Rights
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| Finnish Activist Mikko Rauhala has lodged an application to the European
| Court of Human Rights versus the Finnish state, regarding his right to
| freedom of expression.
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http://www.edri.org/edri-gram/number7.15/finnish-css-echr
Swedish Appeals Court Denies Pirate Bay Retrial -- Says No Bias By Judge
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| The Swedish appeals court charged with looking into whether or not the judge
| in the original trial against The Pirate Bay was biased, has said they found
| no bias (for real, this time) with the judge, despite his belonging to two
| groups that have pushed for stronger copyright laws -- and the fact that the
| prosecutors' lawyers were involved in that organization as well. Apparently,
| the court says the judge should have brought this information to light
| sooner, but otherwise said it was no big deal.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090625/0949185362.shtml
Another Scandal Surrounds Pirate Bay Judge
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| Pirate Bay judge Tomas NorstrÃmâs objectivity has already been called into
| doubt because of his ties to national and international pro-copyright lobby
| groups. Now, one of the defense lawyers says he has uncovered another scandal
| and claims to have evidence that NorstrÃm wasnât assigned to the case
| randomly, as should be the case according to court procedure.
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http://torrentfreak.com/another-scandal-surrounds-pirate-bay-judge-090515/
Pirate Party 3rd Largest Political Party in Sweden
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| Support for the Swedish Pirate Party surged following the Pirate Bay verdict
| and today it became the third largest political party in the country. When
| they are elected for the European Parliament next month, the party hopes to
| end the abuse of copyright by multi-billion dollar corporations.
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http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-party-3rd-largest-political-party-in-sweden-090506/
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