How Will Your Vote be Recorded? InternetNews.com reports in "Diebold for Democracy." From the article: "'We cannot achieve perfectly secure systems; such things do not exist. But on the spectrum of terrible to very good, we are sitting at terrible,' Johns Hopkins University's Aviel Rubin told a congressional panel earlier this week. 'Not only have the vendors not implemented security safeguards that are possible, they have not even correctly implemented the ones that are easy.'"

Worth a Read. Canada.com reports that "They've got your number." From the article: "'There is a widening and yawning gap between the surveillance that is actually happening and people's understanding for the capacity for surveillance. People just have no clue, and I'm describing intelligent people,' says Stephanie Perrin, president of Digital Discretion Inc. in Montreal."

SCO Update. C-Net reports that "SCO flops in DaimlerChrysler Unix lawsuit."

Let's Hope This is One Vow He Doesn't Keep. InternetNews.com reports that "Hatch Vows P2P Action This Year."

Wanna Take Bets As to Whether This Is More Successful than the CAN SPAM Act? InternetNews.com has the skinny on recent legislative activity in "Trolling For Anti-Phishing Laws."

All INDUCE Act, All the Time. Check out the Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act of 2004 Blawg.

Um, Wow. Ernest Miller reports on the INDUCE Act hearings in "Copyright Office on INDUCE Act (IICA): It isn't Strong Enough." Wired has the other side of the story in "Techies Blast Induce Act."

Don't Mess with My TiVo. The AP reports that "TiVo Battles Hollywood Over Copyrights." Wendy has more.

Claim Construction Case Taken Up by Federal Circuit. Law.com reports that "Federal Circuit Set to Enter Defining Conflict for Patent Bar."

Time to Rewrite Those User Agreements. Law.com reports on a recent California state case involving the issue of host liability in "EBay Ruling Punctures Web Liability Shield."

The Price of Success. Naplesnews.com reports that "Marco company sues for 'XM' rights." Via The Trademark Blog.

Sounds Like the Right Outcome. The Trademark Blog reports that "9th Cir: Playmakers v. Playmakers - Injunction Denied." I'm sure Sujal will be happy to know that. (c:

More Criticism of INDUCE Act. Wired reports in "Copyright Bill to Kill Tech?"

Congress May OK ClearPlay Technology. The AP reports that "Device Lets Parents Cut Smut From DVDs." Reuters has this report. If only Congress were this concerned with all content consumers' fair use rights...

Siva Vaidhyanathan on the INDUCE Act Hearings. Salon has his report in "Is your computer a loaded gun?"

Does This Mean They're Going to Hell? The Register reports that "God violates Intel trademark." From the article:

That said divine being did violate the trademark of the INTEL CORPORATION (hereafter referred to as the "plaintiff") in the promotion of an earthy place of worship in the name of his co-defendant JESUS CHRIST (hereafter referred to as the "Son of God") and did thereby undermine said trademark and its association with the promotion of high-quality silicon chips.

Via The Trademark Blog.

I Wonder if They're as Good as Krispy Kreme's? Newsday reports that "Krispy Kreme accuses Entenmann's of trademark infringement." Via the new The Blawg Channel.

Another One to Bite the Dust. The AP reports on the latest P2P casualty in "IMesh to Pay Music Industry in Settlement."

No New Information. The AP reports on the latest Disney copyright dispute in "'Lion Sleeps' lawsuit awaits Disney response."

A New Music Business Model, Barbie in a Blender, and More Bag and Baggage has this month's installment of IP Meme.