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The First Amendment does not permit laws that force speakers to retain a campaign finance attorney, conduct demographic marketing research, or seek declaratory rulings before discussing the most salient political issues of our day.
Citizens United v. FEC 558 U. S. — (2010) [PDF]
The Supreme Court’s decision striking many of the regulations of McCain-Feingold has been [...]
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Note: this is not legal advice. This is my opinion, nothing more. If you want legal advice, hire a lawyer.
How to piss people off with a legal argument
There are no atheists in a foxhole, it’s been said, and there are apparently no agnostics when it comes to the potential application of the [...]
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Update
Please check out the companion piece to this article, Why the GPL/Derivative Work debate doesn’t matter for WordPress themes
Why aren’t WordPress themes automatically covered by the GPL?
There’s been a firestorm brewing in the relatively small world of WordPress premium theme designers, after WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg broadly asserted that themes built to run on the [...]
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I knew that WordPress itself was covered by the GPL. What I didn’t know was that themes, even commercial themes, built to run on WordPress, also fall under the GPL, according to some GPL experts.
In this vid, Matt Mullenweg talks about the benefits of the GPL at some length, even going so [...]
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How has the legislature screwed Florida homeowners yet again?
In what can only be called a blunder of colossal proportions, the Florida legislature has imposed new fees on Florida foreclosure defendants that make it all but impossible for them to fight back against lenders who commit fraud, ignore federal lending regulations, or commit any other kind [...]
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No takebacks
Last month, the official White House photo stream on Flickr switched from a Creative Commons attribution license to a brand-new “U.S. Government Work license” that Flickr created specially for this photostream, but which probably applies to almost all photos contributed by the federal government.
Why create a brand-new “license”? Because works of the U.S. [...]
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Write for a blog long enough, it’s bound to happen. You see a link in your referrer logs, find something on Google, get an email from a reader… you follow the link, and there it is: your hard work, spread across someone else’s page, used as bait for ad revenue or something worse.
David [...]
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Attorney General Bill McCollum clearly does not want to restrict Florida attorneys from helping Florida homeowners fight their foreclosures, and his recent letter to Florida Bar President Jay White may offer some cover to those attorneys who do.
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