International Patent Law is Obsolete and Copyright is Obsolete

‘A book may be good for nothing; or there may be onlyone thing in it worth knowing; are we to read it all through?’(Samuel Johnson) This section is dedicated to the review ofideas, articles, books, films and other media. It will includereplies (and rejoinders) to articles, the evaluation of newideas or proposals, and reviews of books and articles both directlyand indirectly related to intellectual property law.

International Patent Law is Obsolete By Anna Mancini, 2006,New York: Buenos Books Price: US$35, Paperback, ISBN: 1-932848-17-7E-book Price: US$7, ISBN: 1-932848-16-9 Copyright is ObsoleteBy Anna Mancini, 2006, New York: Buenos Books Price: US$35,Paperback, ISBN: 1-932848-17-7 E-book Price: US$5, ISBN: 1-932848-19-3   In International Patent Law is Obsolete Dr Mancini's openingpremise is     

That tool is rubbish!…or is it?

Digital forensic practitioners often utilise a range of tools throughout their casework in order to access, identify and analyse relevant data, making them a vital part of conducting thorough, efficient and accurate digital examinations of device content and datasets. Whilst their importance cannot be understated, there is also no guarantee that their functionality is free from error, where similarly, no practitioner can 100% assure that their performance is flawless. Should an error occur during an investigation, assuming that it has been identified, then determining the cause of it is important for the purposes of ensuring quality control in both the immediate investigation and for longer-term practice improvements. Perhaps anecdotally, a starting position in any postmortem review of an error may be to suspect that any tools used may be at fault, where recent narratives and initiatives have enforced the need to evaluate all tools prior to them being used in any live investigation. Yet, in addition, an error may occur as a result of a practitioner’s investigative conduct. This work discusses the concept of ‘fault-attribution’, focusing on the roles of the forensic tool and practitioner, and proposes a series of principles for determining responsibility for an investigative error.     

争议何在?出路何在?

媒体对<道路交通安全法>第76条(以下简称"第76条")的关注,很大层面上集中在生命权与路权孰重孰轻?强者与弱者谁是谁非的争执之上,但是,在我看来,像这样的思考路径和辩驳方法根本就不可能对第76条是否合理进行准确的评估.因为硬要抽象地、撇开具体个案地把彼此冲突的权利利益排出一个"客观价值秩序"(objective order of values),是很困难的,正如有的司机反驳道:"在快速道上行人突然横穿马路,司机为避让行人,很可能会与其他车辆碰撞,也会给司机带来生命威胁,这时司机不是强者而是弱者".     

Law is Myth

International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique - Any title for this paper beginning with the words “law as...” would have been...     

规范等于零

赵汀阳先生的《论可能生活》出了修订版,光是导论,我就读了很长时间,这一本伦理学著作给我的启迪超过了绝大多数法学著作。我的目光长久地停留在一行字上:"不能指望用规范去说明规范。"这句话看上去很多余。当规范A被用于说明规范B时,规范A自身的正当性仍有待证明,如果规范A是错误的,不能仅仅因为"有规范A,且从规范A可以推出规     

The Process is the Rule and the Punishment is the Process

Andrew Ashworth, The Criminal Process: An Evaluative Study , Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994, 315 pp, hb £45.00, pb £12.95. Andrew Sanders and Richard Young, Criminal Justice , London: Butterworths, 1994, 496 pp, pb £18.95.     

“Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose” – what about code and law?

Law and information technology are interlinked. Since Lessig's “code is law” the discussions address the viability of law in technology markets. But recently, the direction of view has changed by way of conversion; in the context of smart contracts, the notion “law is code” became prevalent. The contribution looks into the interdependencies between law and code and pleads for a new functional understanding of law.     

The law is a good thing (psychology is,too)

Psycholegal studies have been hampered by the lack of a theory to guide the choice of topics for research. Both judicial decision making and psychological research would be enhanced by emphasis on subjective experience in determining the scope of fundamental rights and fostering a legal system consonant with human dignity and responsive to social reality. International human rights law is presented as an example of the feasibility and utility of psychological jurisprudence. This article is based on a presidential address to the American Psychology-Law Society at the meeting of the American Psychological Association in August 1991, in San Francisco.     

新闻立法迫在眉睫

我国目前只是依靠零星散见的法律条款和新闻政策来调整新闻信息传播活动。这就造成了新闻诉讼纠纷案例的激增。而尚无新闻法,使媒体的舆论监督权与公民的权利保护在一定程度上存在着失衡。所以,为了公平起见,使媒体市场走向良性发展,国家必须加快出台新闻法,以保障媒体乃至公民的权利。     

什么是良法

广义的良法是指对社会发展起积极或推进作用的法,从一定意义上说,也就是具有真、善、美之品格的法。“真”是指法的内容的合规律性;“善”是指法的价值的合目的性;“美”是指法的形式的合科学性。依法治国,应是依良法治国。     

东君又来,田园将芜,人也挥手从兹去

<正>二十四年前在大学读书时,曾因春天的到来而对身边的读书场景别有感触,填了一首虞美人"年华贵妃"的词,曰:"东君何故这般美?惹得人心醉。我欲无情更多情,一朝都与这年华贵妃。落花流水恨多少?争叫人心碎。我将不负好时光,去与她恩爱缠绵百岁。"那时在大学,心思全在读书,特别是想将耽误的时光夺回来,好像天下的事只有读书,所以很自然地要以身相许。和现在的大学生比,那时学生们的心地单纯极了,除了男女生间明传暗递,引而     

西西里在反击

七年前的挑战 自从维特托里欧·格莱科穿着黑色连头帽大衣，在一个漆黑的夜晚，溜入巴勒莫的街道，散发宣传材料，向黑手党宣战已过去了七个春秋。但是，每当回忆起与六七个朋友在房屋的墙壁、商店橱窗和公交站台刷上标贴，动员西西里的居民们起来抵制黑手党的威胁和敲诈时，他的双眼仍然神采奕奕，表情依然热血沸腾。     

少女堕胎困扰韩国社会

韩国保健福利家庭部发布了一项名为＂预防非法人工流产综合计划＂的政策,以警告那些进行非法堕胎手术的医院。此举尽管表明韩国政府的态度已经从以前的默许堕胎到禁止非法堕胎，但更为引人关注的却是更深层的方面。     

Inspiration is not infringement

Features in a coin-operated arcade game ‘Pocket Money’inspired similar features in subsequent coin-operated games‘Jackpot Pool’ and ‘Trick Shot’, butdid not amount to copyright infringement as they did not forma substantial part of the original game.     

Legitimacy is Not Authority

The two leading traditions of theorizing about democratic legitimacy are liberalism and deliberative democracy. Liberals typically claim that legitimacy consists in the consent of the governed, while deliberative democrats typically claim that legitimacy consists in the soundness of political procedures. Despite this difference, both traditions see the need for legitimacy as arising from the coercive enforcement of law and regard legitimacy as necessary for law to have normative authority. While I endorse the broad aims of these two traditions, I believe they both misunderstand the nature of legitimacy. In this essay I argue that the legitimacy of a law is neither necessary nor sufficient for its normative authority, and I argue further that the need for legitimacy in law arises regardless of whether the law is coercively enforced. I thus articulate a new understanding of the legitimacy and authority of law.     

究竟什么是地役权?——评《物权法(草案)》中地役权的概念

现有的《物权法(草案)》中关于地役权的概念不尽准确.考察罗马法中地役权的产生以及各国立法例中地役权制度,我们可以发现,地役权具有两个特点:第一,地役权权利内容具有不确定性;第二,地役权中需役地利益对需役地人利益具有包容性.地役权实际上提供了一个在不动产上设立用益物权的一般权利模型,为新的物之利用方式生成为物权提供了方便.为了和地役权的此项特点相吻合,我们必须对于《物权法(草案)》中的相关内容进行修改.