10.29.2004  Induce Act and the California Legal Climate  In the negotiations over the proposed Induce Act, the Silicon Valley participants have been obsessed over the need to prevent frivolous law suits. Perhaps one explanation is the legal climate in which they live -- see the article by Walter Olson, quoted at length by Professor Bainbridge today, on California's consumer rights law and its harvest of vexatious litigation. For more, see Olson's OverLawyered. Copyright law is not the zany California Code, though, so this would seem like a soluble problem. posted by James DeLong : 10/29/2004 04:20:04 PM   IPcentral WebLog Blog Main Recent Posts   More on Fantasyland P2P and the FTC Fantasyland[s] European Site Opposing Software Patents Grokster Settles Copyright Suit Antitrust Doctrine, IP, Property, and Dynamic Efficiency Bureaucracy More Reading Posner on Law Reviews Bush & Kerry on P2P Archives by Month   December 2003 January 2004 February 2004 March 2004 April 2004 May 2004 June 2004 July 2004 August 2004 September 2004 October 2004 November 2004 December 2004 Links   PFF Blog

	10.29.2004  Induce Act and the California Legal Climate  In the negotiations over the proposed Induce Act, the Silicon Valley participants have been obsessed over the need to prevent frivolous law suits. Perhaps one explanation is the legal climate in which they live -- see the article by Walter Olson, quoted at length by Professor Bainbridge today, on California's consumer rights law and its harvest of vexatious litigation. For more, see Olson's OverLawyered. Copyright law is not the zany California Code, though, so this would seem like a soluble problem. posted by James DeLong : 10/29/2004 04:20:04 PM   IPcentral WebLog Blog Main Recent Posts   More on Fantasyland P2P and the FTC Fantasyland[s] European Site Opposing Software Patents Grokster Settles Copyright Suit Antitrust Doctrine, IP, Property, and Dynamic Efficiency Bureaucracy More Reading Posner on Law Reviews Bush & Kerry on P2P Archives by Month   December 2003 January 2004 February 2004 March 2004 April 2004 May 2004 June 2004 July 2004 August 2004 September 2004 October 2004 November 2004 December 2004 Links   PFF Blog