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The latest issue of the Oregon Intellectual Property Newsletter is now out. Volume 7, Number 2 of the newsletter contains six articles addressing current issues in open source licensing by prominent commentators and practitioners in this emerging area of intellectual property law.

The Oregon Intellectual Property Newsletter is produced by the students of the Lewis and Clark Law School Intellectual Property Student Organization (IPSO) and sponsored by the Intellectual Property Section of the Oregon State Bar.

Find the full text of this and all previous issues of The Oregon Intellectual Property Newsletter via this IPSO Oregon IP Newsletter page.

Here are the articles published in Volume 7, Number 2 of the Oregon Intellectual Property Newsletter:

• Open Source In Practice: From Idea To Market To Your Desk by Anne Glazer
• Bringing FOSS Into The Enterprise: Thoughts On “Best Practices” by Gwyn Firth Murray
• Open Source in M&A and Other Transactions by Heather Meeker
• Implied Patent Rights and Open Source Software by Michele K. Herman and Peter M. Ullman
• Harald Welte, Linux, and the GPL by H. Tomás Gómez-Arostegui
• Semi-Open Source: The Case for Hybrid Licensing by William Glasson
• Trademark Enforcement for National Brands Made Easier – Not So For Others: Significant Changes to Trademark Dilution Act Signed into Law by Sheila Fox Morrison and Vanessa Usui

The case of US v I. Lewis (”Scooter”) Libby began this week. Public interest in Libby’s trial on charges of perjury, false statement, and obstruction of justice relating to the Valerie Plame investigation are high, and so the U.S. Department of Justice and a few innovative bloggers/reporters are providing these related services:

Trial Exhibits

The office of Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald is providing access to each day’s trial exhibits as they are introduced at http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/osc/

Due to public interest in this case, the Department of Justice is releasing the government exhibits in the format admitted in the court. The Department recognizes that these documents are in some cases not in an accessible format.

All exhibits so far have been in PDF and/or Text format. Also at the Special Counsel’s site are links to most other court documents, including the indictment, pretrial motions, and supporting affidavits.

Trial Blogs & News

A few bloggers and reporters are providing “gavel-to-gavel” coverage of the Libby trial.

The Scooter Libby Trial
Media Bloggers Association
The Media Bloggers Assocation, “a nonpartisan organization dedicated to promoting, protecting and educating its members,” has been credentialed to cover the Libby trial. Posts of their members are being aggregated at their Scooter Libby Trial site.

Libby Live Trial Blog
Firedoglake
Bloggers from this liberal political blog are in the courtroom and have been providing invaluable coverage and analysis. Occasional posts in the blog are not trial-related, but on days the court is in session it is easy to spot the trial posts.

Capital Games Trial Coverage
The Nation
David Corn, Washington Editor of The Nation, is providing day-by-day accounts of the trial at his blog.

Slate’s Libby Trial Coverage
The online newsmagazine Slate offers in-depth coverage of the trial by reporters Dahlia Lithwick and John Dickerson.

Source: beSpacific

The latest issue of Lewis & Clark Law School’s Animal Law is now out.

Here are the articles published in Volume 13, Number 1 of Animal Law, complete with links to the abstracts and full-text articles:

Introduction

• Confronting Barriers To The Court Room For Animal Advocates by Delcianna Winders

Symposium

• Introduction, Confronting Barriers To The Court Room For Animal Advocates by Clayton Gillette & Joyce Tischler
• Linking Cultural And Legal Transitions by Taimie Bryant, Una Chaudhuri, Dale Jamieson, Laura Ireland Moore, and David Wolfson
• Legal Standing For Animals And Advocates by David Cassuto, Jonathan Lovvorn, Katherine Meyer, and Joyce Tischler
• Animal Advocacy And Causes Of Action by Carter Dillard, Leonard Egert, David Favre, Eric Glitzenstein, Mariann Sullivan, and Sonia Waisman
• Conclusion, Confronting Barriers To The Court Room For Animal Advocates by David Wolfson

Articles

• There Are No Bad Dogs, Only Bad Owners: Replacing Strict Liability With A Negligence Standard In Dog Bite Cases by Lynn A. Epstein
• The Ethical Case For European Legislation Against Fur Farming by Andrew Linzey

Comments

• To What Extent Does Wealth Maximization Benefit Farmed Animals: A Law And Economics Approach To A Ban On Gestation Crates In Pig Production by Geoffrey C. Evans

New L&C Law Scholarship is a regular feature of BoleyBlogs! Here we announce new content from the Law Reviews of Lewis & Clark Law School, along with the latest publishing ventures of our own faculty, students and staff.

Delcianna Winders, Confronting Barriers To The Court Room For Animal Advocates, 13 Animal Law 1 (2007)

Clayton Gillette & Joyce Tischler, Introduction, Confronting Barriers To The Court Room For Animal Advocates, 13 Animal Law 13 (2007)

Taimie Bryant, Una Chaudhuri, Dale Jamieson, Laura Ireland Moore, and David Wolfson, Linking Cultural And Legal Transitions, 13 Animal Law 29 (2007)

David Cassuto, Jonathan Lovvorn, Katherine Meyer, and Joyce Tischler, Legal Standing For Animals And Advocates, 13 Animal Law 61 (2007)

Carter Dillard, Leonard Egert, David Favre, Eric Glitzenstein, Mariann Sullivan, and Sonia Waisman, Animal Advocacy And Causes Of Action, 13 Animal Law 87 (2007)

David Wolfson, Conclusion, Confronting Barriers To The Court Room For Animal Advocates, 13 Animal Law 123 (2007)

Lynn A. Epstein, There Are No Bad Dogs, Only Bad Owners: Replacing Strict Liability With A Negligence Standard In Dog Bite Cases, 13 Animal Law 129 (2007)