Jordan Hatcher

• Master of Laws
• Curator of Chao at jordanhatcher.com

On 28 June 2010 the Supreme Court of the United States issued its opinion on the eagerly awaited Bilski v. Kappos1 case concerning patentable subject matter. While the focus of the opinion is on financial services, and in particular the degree to which financial services can be protected by patents, it speaks to the test involved with software pate...

This chapter traces the journey from relatively simple example of direct marketing online (spam) to more recent exercises in which consumers are more subtly tracked, profiled and targeted by advertisers. This targeting has appeared first on-line but increasingly offline tracking will be used too, using digital technologies such as RFID and sensor d...

This paper describes the work of the JISC-funded PoWR (Preservation Of Web Resources) project which is developing a handbook on best practices and advice aimed at UK higher and further educational institutions for the preservation of Web sites and Web resources. The paper summarises the challenges institutions face in preserving Web resources, desc...

This report considers the Dominican Republic - Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) and its impact on Information Technology (IT) based businesses. The report summarises the factual background to, and contents of, the agreement, and then reviews those parts of the agreement (or omissions from the agreement) that are relevant to the IT fi...

The advent of digital technology and increased global connectivity has, to put it mildly, caused some ripples for the entertainment industry specifically and copyright law generally. In the aftermath, many are searching for new ways to incorporate the benefits of digital copies and the internet while minimizing the harms. To some, the anime industr...

The Common Information Environment (CIE) recently released a report concerning the possibility of using Creative Commons licenses for information produced by public sector bodies (Barker et al. 2005). One of the issues that came up during the study was the compatibility of Creative Commons (CC) licenses and Digital Rights Management technologies (r...

This paper examines the legal and regulatory implications of wireless mesh networking. Current approaches to internet regulation focus on centralized points of control, such as traditional ISPs. Following the Lessig concept of code, wireless mesh networking is a decentralized architecture, thus increasing the difficulties of regulating internet beh...

Given recent instances of lawsuits over copyright in tattoos, this paper examines the implications that come along with granting intellectual property rights in art that is permanently placed on the human body. Because evidence suggests that the tattoo industry has not previously taken into account copyright law, this paper suggests some specific c...

Ever since 1954, when film critic Francois Truffaut "asserted that the worst of Jean Renoir's movies would always be more interesting than the best of Jean Delannoy's," the director has come to be seen as the auteur of the films she directs. This idea, while fine for film critics, has unnecessarily crept into the law. Directors currently enjoy a un...