On the first day of a case that could test the limits of Hollywood's control over its digital properties, lawyers for eight movie studios yesterday urged a federal judge to stop a Web site operator from distributing a software program that unscrambles the encryption on DVD movie discs.
They're engineers, software developers, executives, digital artists, lawyers, professors.
They are engineers, software developers, executives, digital artists, lawyers and professors.
The digital rights lawyer Marcia Hoffman says Congress remains divided on the issue.
"It is the thorny problem of user-generated content – what rights users have and what rights the online platform has," says Jaz Purewal, digital media lawyer at Osborne Clarke.
As a digital rights lawyer, Gagnier tells me that she'll prioritize digital literacy, immigration, privacy, and protection from online harassment.
Christina Gagnier would bring rare tech chops to the federal legislature as a long-time digital rights lawyer and startup founder (who also competed in TechCrunch's own Disrupt Battlefield).
That's because of the tax implications of trading in Bitcoin: if it's classified as a currency then no VAT is due on the value of Bitcoins sold, only on the trading commission, according to Eitan Jankelewitz, a digital media lawyer at Sheridans.
In the role-switching four member cast, Maggie Lacey is a zoned-out digital-age lawyer, prattling on about "a mutually beneficial alliance," while trying vainly to get up close and personal in a pre-nuptial contract, until negotiations fail.
Edward Felten, a computer scientist at Princeton, withdrew a paper on weaknesses in encryption systems for digital music after lawyers for the Recording Industry Association of America sent him a warning letter.Mr Felten has challenged the constitutionality of the DMCA with a lawsuit that will be heard later this year.
