Stories from the Week that Was – 10/9-10/15/11

Legal Sector Shed 1,300 Jobs in September

Netflix Abandons Qwikster DVD Plan

Are Facebook ID Cards In Our Future?

“The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of authors, but ‘[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.’ To this end, copyright assures authors the right to their original expression, but encourages others to build freely upon the ideas and information conveyed by a work. This result is neither unfair nor unfortunate. It is the means by which copyright advances the progress of science and art.”

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor
Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co.
499 US 340, 349 (1991)