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Useful Arts : A Blog About Law Technology Internet Privacy Copyrights Trademarks Free Speech Online Marketing Personal Expression E-Commerce

By Andis Kaulins

We ran across the Useful Arts blog today, which has the slogan "Online Law Blog: How trademark, copyright, privacy and politics shape the Web." You might consider adding Useful Arts to your blogrolls. Here is what we read there:

"Hi, I?m Dave Wieneke, the host of UsefulArts.

UsefulArts.us is a blog about how law and technology connect to determine what is possible on the Internet. It considers issues such as privacy, copyright, trademark, and free speech as they pertain to online marketing, personal expression, and e-commerce."

Take a look at Useful Arts and make your own decision. See, for example, the recent posting Wikileaks Is Back Up in the US! about the controversial whistleblower Wikileaks website. That posting at Useful Arts reads:

"Judge Jeffrey White has reversed his decision requiring the site?s domain registrar to direct traffic away from the site?s US domain."

There is no question that Wikileaks represents a new dimension in freedom of information. It may not be everyone's cup of tea, but it is a direct and expectable development of the new technologies that dominate our modern era. It will be interesting to see how society deals with these kinds of websites and how the legal principles attendant to prior restraint will be applied to cases such as this, as manifested by Judge White's reversal of his initial prior restraint decision.

Full post as published by LawPundit on March 03, 2008 (boomark / email).