Elcomsoft trial to turn on definition of "willful" - the issue is whether the Russian company knowingly violated US law when it sold a method of bypassing Adobe's ebook encryption, but what does that really mean? Here's a snippet from the Law.com article which talks about the jury instruction's definition of "willful":
"The defense appears to have won a big victory as [Judge] Whyte defined willfully as acting 'with knowledge that one's conduct is unlawful and with the intent to do something the law forbids.' The nearly page-long instruction says a good-faith misunderstanding negates willfulness, but a good-faith disagreement with the law doesn't. 'The question is what did the person honestly believe,' Whyte explained as he read the instruction to jurors."
Google - Those who frequent the Blogosphere usually know about the power of Google. People ask me what my URL is and I tell them I don't know. Just google "ernie attorney" and bada bing. Top of the list. (this is what David Weinberger calls the "Google URL"). Well here are some more Google fun things. Google Zeitgeist is a list of the popular Google searches for 2002 (which tells you a lot about popular culture). Then there is there is Google cooking, where you put a list of ingredients into Google and see what recipes people have posted with those ingredients. I wonder how much money Google could raise if they had one of those little Pay Pal buttons? I'd kick in a few dollars for sure.
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Law Blog Outline Update - I have renamed the category previously entitled "Technologists" to "LegalKM" because that reflects what most of the people in that category do. Joy, Chris and Jennifer I believe all do KM for large law firms. Rick Klau sells CRM software, which may be the most important KM solution that a law firm uses, so that is why I left him in that category. Buzz's software, Activewords, is a KM solution too. If I've missed a better way of doing this, or if I need to tweak the categories more let me know. At this point I feel like the law blog outline belongs to everyone and I'm just guarding it. In fact, if anyone wants the OPML file I'd be happy to send it to them. There maybe some others out there who could tweak it better than I could.
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