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- EBay-Craigslist Fight Is About Kijiji and Control, Complaint Shows
  Posted by Jeff from Bits.blogs.nytimes
  On Jan. 1, 2008, they reorganized the company's stock structure, issuing one "reorganization" share of Craigslist stock for every five shares of common stock. That diluted eBay's stock from 28.04 percent to 24.85 percent and, as specified in Craigslist's bylaws, eBay lost its ability to elect a director.
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- EBay sues Craigslist ad website
  Posted by Jeff from BBC News
  Online auction site eBay acquired a 28.4% stake when it bought shares from a former employee who had been given equity by Mr Newmark. Mr Newmark and Mr Buckmaster give away for free most of the services that Craigslist provides.
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- Conrad Black's $200 million legal bill
  Posted by SoxFirst
  Conrad Black has filed an appeal against his prison sentence for perpetrating massive fraud. But his legal bill is already $200 million
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- Lessig: Make Way for Copyright Chaos
  Posted by Jeff from New York Times
  But 20 months ago, the Supreme Court reversed this wise policy of deference. Drawing upon common law-like power, the court expanded the Copyright Act in the Grokster case to cover a form of liability it had never before recognized in the context of copyright — the wrong of providing technology that induces copyright infringement. It announced this new form of liability even though at precisely the same time Congress was holding hearings about whether to amend the Copyright Act ...
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- Microsoft to sue 'cybersquatters'
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  Called "cybersquatters" or "typosquatters," the targets of Microsoft's lawsuits use Web addresses containing terms such as Xbox or Microsoft, or slight misspellings of those words, to lure consumers to Web sites loaded with clickable advertisements. The Web-site operators profit when consumers click on an ad.
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- CUNY Graduate School Of Journalism Awarded Knight Foundation Grant
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  The guide will offer the top 10 rules and guidelines to help keep citizen journalists out of court, with each rule serving as an entry point for more in-depth material. It will appear on Knight Foundation sites, as well as on the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism web site, www.journalism.cuny.edu.
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- Judge rejects Bush decision on pesticides
  Posted by Jon from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  good news for the environment: science still matters
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Lessig: Make Way for Copyright Chaos

Definitely worth a read: Lessig is one of the more interesting legal minds out there.

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9:13 am 3/18/07

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