DVD copying software injunction ruling [US DC] News
DVD copying software injunction ruling [US DC]

Real Networks Inc., et al. v. DVD Copy Control Association Inc., et al., US District Court for the Northern District of California, August 11, 2009 [enjoining technology company RealNetworks from selling its DVD copying software, RealDVD on the basis of the court's holding that the software violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act].

Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on copyright issues.

THIS DAY @ LAW

Standard Oil incorporated

On January 10, 1870, John Davison Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil. Rockefeller's corporation would grow to achieve a virtual monopoly over oil production in the United States. Standard Oil's dominance lasted until the corporation was split into 34 separate companies in 1911 after the Supreme Court found the company in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The rise of Standard Oil made Rockefeller America's first billionaire and eventually the richest man in the world. Read the text of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey vs. United States, 221 U.S. 1 (1910).