Rutgers Computer & Technology Law Journal articles from September 1999

Rutgers Computer & Technology Law Journal archives from September 1999

Public performance copyrights: a guide to public place analysis.
September 22, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION(**) "An' there began a lang digression About the lords of the creation."(1) "`Cause, remember, no matter where you go... there you are."(2) Dip Diddler, an average guy, has just latched onto a couple of...

Cybercommunity versus geographical community standard for online pornography: a technological hierarchy in judging cyberspace obscenity.
September 22, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION For more than twenty years, courts have utilized the contemporary community standard announced in Roth v. United States,(1) and expanded in Miller v. California,(2) to determine obscenity.(3) The rationale behind these...

Software patent applications directed to business and mathematical processing applications highlight the tension between State Street and Benson.
September 22, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION Recent decisions by the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals suggest a significant expansion of the scope of patentable subject matter for software-related inventions.(1) In particular, a recent decision by the Federal Circuit...

Federal tax treatment of computer software under Norwest v. Commissioner.
September 22, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION Since the birth of the computer software industry in the 1970's, the courts and lawmakers have been repeatedly faced with the task of classifying software under the common law labels of tangible or intangible property. One...

The New Jersey Supreme Court's treatment of the wireless communications industry pursuant to New Jersey municipal land use law and the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
September 22, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION "Should we force science down the throats of those who have no taste for it? Is it our duty to drag them kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century? I am afraid that it is."(1) In many ways, we are in the midst...