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Court: State Can Dump Non-Sex Offenders Into Registry
Georgia’s Supreme Court is upholding the government’s right to put non-sex offenders on the state’s sex-offender registry, highlighting a little-noticed (but growing) nationwide practice. Atlanta criminal defense attorney Ann Marie Fitz estimated that perhaps thousands of convicts convicted of non-sexual crimes have been placed in sex-offender databases. Fitz represents a convict who was charged with false imprisonment when he was 18 for briefly detaining a 17-year-old girl during a soured drug deal.
Continue reading »MRI’s successes put the brain on trial
A typical neuroscience paper (or a typical report on one) is a laundry list of structure:function relationships between brain regions and the mental tasks they perform. The amygdala deals with registering rewards, the hippocampus handles memory, and so on. These relationships have been the result of over a century of work, starting with rare cases of brain injury and building through modern medical imaging, which can detect ever-smaller lesions and associate neural activity with specific cognitive processes.
Continue reading »etc: Australia is borrowing from the US playbook by criticizing Canadian copyright law.
Australia is borrowing from the US playbook by criticizing Canadian copyright law. Read More: Rodney Serkowski Read the comments on this post
Continue reading »Cryptome restored after Microsoft change of heart
Redmond rescinds DMCA takedown Microsoft has rescinded the copyright complaint that resulted in the shutdown of the long-standing whistleblower website, Cryptome.org, after it published Redmond’s spy guide for law enforcement.…
Continue reading »IIPA Demands Canada Be Put on 301 Priority Watch List
The IIPA (International Intellectual Property Alliance) is demanding that Canada be put on the Special 301 priority watchlist. Of course, as with how Canada ended up on the priority watchlist last year, the reasons given fall short of being credible enough to warrant being compared to places like China. It may be a big thorn in the side of major corporations who deal with copyright related matters.
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