law.com: Bigger Not Better With Copyrighted Web Photos. Setting parameters for copyright infringement on the Internet, the court found that reproducing photographs to create thumbnail images is a fair use of the material, but displaying full-sized images violates the copyright owner’s exclusive right to publicly display his works. [Tomalak’s Realm]

Useful references on business patents. the Internet Law Journal, a useful Washington Post piece and the Salon piece about Jay Walker’s patent mania.

Interesting and disturbing piece in today’s New York Times about the implications of a world in which machines can always locate one another — and determine what they are being used for at any moment.