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		<title>Mass Moca Loses to Büchel Under VARA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nice post title, eh?  Mass MoCA is the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation a contemporary art museum in North Adams, MA.  Christoph Büchell is a Swiss “installation artist.”  Think very large, very avant-garde.  The New York Times describes his work “dense, fraught creations, which compress masses of material and objects into historically charged labyrinthine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.masslawblog.com/2010/03/mass-moca-loses-to-buchel-under-vara/</link>
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		<title>My firm&#8217;s Client Advisory on Massachusetts Data Security Regulations, Which Took Effect (at long last) on March 1st</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My partner Joe Laferrera has been incredibly active in connection with the Massachusetts Data Security Regulations, which took effect on March 1, 2010 after multiple delays (initial deadline was January 1, 2009; second deadline May 1, 2009; third deadline January 1, 2010).
Among other things, Joe has co-chaired the Boston Bar Association Privacy Committee last year [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.masslawblog.com/2010/03/my-firms-client-advisory-on-massachusetts-data-security-regulations-which-took-effect-at-long-last-today/</link>
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		<title>Judge Young, Bulger/Flemmi and &#8220;The Government &#8211; Our Government&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Federal District Court Judge William Young has issued a lengthy decision, awarding $2.7 million in damages to the estates of three people murdered by James J. Bulger, Stephen J. Flemmi, and their associates.  Judge Young describes the story as “harrowing,” which may be an understatement.
The key defendant in this case is the U.S. Government, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.masslawblog.com/2010/02/judge-young-bulgerflemmi-and-the-government-our-government/</link>
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		<title>Defendant Choses a New Trial in Minnesota File Sharing Case</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I wrote about the trial judge&#8217;s remittitur order in the Jamie Thomas case last week, I didn&#8217;t mention that a legal aspect of remittitur is that the defendant may accept it, or reject it and demand a new trial.  I now understand that the defendant in this case has not accepted the judge&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.masslawblog.com/2010/02/defendant-choses-a-new-trial-n-minnesota-file-sharing-case/</link>
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		<title>Judge Young Issues Mea Culpa on Expert Witness Testimony in Patent Case, Orders a Do-Over</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Massachusetts U.S. District Court William Young has been teaching evidence law for as long as I can recall, even as far back as his pre-federal court days, when he was on the Superior Court bench (Judge Young was appointed to the federal bench in 1985, and had been a Massachusetts Superior Court Judge from 1978 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.masslawblog.com/2010/01/judge-young-issues-mea-culpa-on-expert-witness-testimony-in-patent-case-orders-a-do-over/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;$2 Million for Stealing 24 Songs for Personal Use is Simply Shocking&#8221; Says Minnesota Federal Judge, Issuing Remittitur Order</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Out of more than 30,000 cases filed against downloaders by the record companies only two end-user download cases have gone to trial and judgment: the Tenenbaum case in Boston, and the case against Jammie Thomas-Rassett in Minnesota.
In the second case, the jury awarded the copyright owners $2 million for downloading (and allegedly distributing) 24 songs.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.masslawblog.com/2010/01/2-million-for-stealing-24-songs-for-personal-use-is-simply-shocking-says-minnesota-federal-judge-issuing-remittitur-order/</link>
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		<title>The Boston Area Technology Sector is a Lot Like Silicon Valley/Santa Clara County &#8230;. Not.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A table from Branko Gerovac’s website, Empirical Reality compares the technology areas of Massachusetts and Silicon Valley The two areas are far more alike, on the statistical level, than I had realized -






2008
Boston CSA*
San Francisco CSA





Total population
7,514,759
7,354,444


Population 25 years and over
5,086,671
5,013,980


Bachelor’s degree
21.80%
24.70%


Graduate or professional degree
15.60%
16.60%


Population 16 years and over
6,047,131
5,888,844


In labor force
69.60%
67.60%


Unemployed
4.00%
4.10%


Median household income (dollars)
66,723
77,247


Mean earnings [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.masslawblog.com/2010/01/the-boston-area-technology-sector-is-a-lot-like-silicon-valleysanta-clara-county-not/</link>
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		<title>If the  Feds Oppose Him, Tennenbaum (and Nesson) Must be Right! &#8211; Joel Fights Back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Joel’s last chance before Massachusetts Federal District Court Judge Gertner (“Joel Fights Back”) is his post-judgment motion to set aside or reduce the damages award against him on the grounds that the judgment is unconstitutional – after all, what government would punish a student to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars for a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.masslawblog.com/2010/01/if-the-feds-say-no-tennenbaum-and-nesson-must-be-right/</link>
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		<title>The Road Goes on Forever, But the Lawsuits Never End: ConnectU, Facebook, Their Entourages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The ConnectU/Facebook legal saga is truly astounding.  Imagine a mature Oak tree.  Now give the it properties of Kudzu vine (the &#8220;vine that ate the South&#8221;).  Each branch of this tree is another lawsuit involving ConnectU, Facebook, the principals, and their lawyers.
Now, a new branch has burst forth.  Wayne Chang has sued ConnectU and its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.masslawblog.com/2010/01/connectu-and-facebook-goes-on-forever/</link>
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		<title>What a Phish &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A phish I received this weekend.  These are getting better and better (no typos, no foreign language malapropisms), and I can easily see some small percentage of recipients getting &#8220;caught&#8221; by this phishing expedition.  These links get shut down almost immediately, but I have disabled this link, in the same spirit that I&#8217;d be careful [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.masslawblog.com/2010/01/what-a-phish/</link>
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