NBC, CBS, Fox say Redlasso breaking copyright laws | Technology | Internet | Reuters

 

NBC, CBS, Fox say Redlasso breaking copyright laws | Technology | Internet | Reuters

NBC, CBS, Fox say Redlasso breaking copyright laws

Tue May 20, 2008 4:51pm EDT

By Paul Thomasch

NEW YORK (Reuters) - NBC, CBS, and Fox charged on Tuesday that Redlasso, a closely-held website operator, has violated copyright laws by streaming video clips of their news, sports and television shows without permission.

In a letter, lawyers for CBS Corp, General Electric's NBC, News Corp's Fox and Allbritton Communications Co, a TV station owner, said Redlasso has broken state and federal laws while causing the companies "serious and irreparable harm."

They demanded Redlasso stop reproducing, distributing or displaying the broadcasts.

Redlasso, in a statement, said it is reviewing the letter and expects to respond shortly.

As interest in online video has boomed, broadcasters are attempting to avoid the music industry's troubles by closely protecting their content on the Web. Previously, Viacom Inc. filed a $1 billion copyright infringement against Google Inc and its video-share site YouTube.

In turn, broadcasters are making more of their content available through their own advertising-supported sites. News Corp and NBC Universal, for instance, are partners in Hulu, an online video site where clips and full-length movies and TV shows are available.

Redlasso is a site that enables users -- often bloggers -- to create clips from TV broadcasts and then share them. The service is free, according to its website, which says it splits advertising revenue with producers and owners of the content.

In the letter, the lawyers representing the media companies write, "Redlasso's unauthorized use in connection with its own services of the content owners' valuable and famous trademarks, along with various statements made on Redlasso's web site and at various online industry gatherings, among other places, falsely convey an affiliation between Redlasso and the content owners, when there is none."

They sought a response from Redlasso by May 29.

In its statement on Tuesday, Redlasso said, "We believe that curtailing distribution through the Redlasso platform only exacerbates a flawed distribution model. We hope to develop mutually beneficially partnerships with the world's major media companies, including many of those we've heard from today."

(Reporting by Paul Thomasch; Editing by Tim Dobbyn)

Japan uses copyright conviction to crack down on student who allegedly spread computer virus - Breaking News - Technology - theage.com.au

Japan uses copyright conviction to crack down on student who allegedly spread computer virus - Breaking News - Technology - theage.com.au 

"Hate to give the RIAA or MPAA ideas but the idea of imbedding a virus within copyrighted material might slow down piracy" --- HSM

A student who had allegedly spread a computer virus was convicted Friday of copyright infringement charges in a case that has highlighted the lack of laws in Japan to police malicious programs in cyberspace.

Masato Nakatsuji, 24, a graduate student at Osaka Electro-Communication University, was suspected of spreading a virus by embedding it in an image from a Japanese animation film that he illegally copied and distributed over the Internet.

The virus he allegedly used, the "Harada virus," is one of Japan's "Big Three" viruses, and Nakatsuji's arrest, in January, was the first in Japan involving the making or spreading of viruses.

Nakatsuji was found guilty in Kyoto District Court Friday and sentenced on the same day to two years in prison, suspended for three years, said a court official who requested anonymity because he was speaking for the court.

The suspended sentence means Nakatsuji won't serve time in prison.

Although computer viruses have wreaked havoc around the world for more than two decades, Japan has been slow to pass legislation to crack down on people that make and spread the potentially destructive programs.

In the latest case, police considered other charges, including damage to property and obstructing business, before deciding that copyright violation charges would hold up best in court.

Nakatsuji did not contest the charge that he had spread the virus, police say.

His lawyers had argued he should get off with a fine, saying it was unfair that he was being more heavily penalized because a virus was involved in the alleged copyright violations, Japanese daily newspaper Mainichi reported.

Downloading the Harada virus with the animated image destroyed data and spread on the Internet information stored in computers hit by the virus, according to police.

© 2008 AP DIGITAL

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Jorum News

 Jorum News

Jorum to move to Open Access
The Jorum team are pleased to announce that due to a continuation of funding from JISC, the service in development will continue to move forward over the next three years. Jorum has taken on board feedback from its community and in the next phase of its development will be moving towards providing open educational resources.
The Jorum team will use the website to diseminate further information on developments and progress, as well as the jorum-update list. We will be contacting existing contributors and users with further details on this exciting opportunity to help them participate in the wider sharing of their learning and teaching resources.

Jorum is a free online repository service for teaching and support staff in UK Further and Higher Education Institutions, helping to build a community for the sharing, reuse and repurposing of learning and teaching materials.

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2008/04/jorumopen.aspx

OPEN DOORS AND OPEN MINDS: What faculty authors can do to ensure open access to their work through their institution (SPARC)

"New SPARC Whitepaper" -- Stephen

OPEN DOORS AND OPEN MINDS: What faculty authors can do to ensure open access to their work through their institution (SPARC) 

OPEN DOORS AND OPEN MINDS: What faculty authors can do to ensure open access to their work through their institution

A SPARC / SCIENCE COMMONS WHITE PAPER (April 2008)

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Overview:

The Internet has brought unparalleled opportunities for expanding availability of research by bringing down economic and physical barriers to sharing. The digitally networked environment promises to democratize access, carry knowledge beyond traditional research niches, accelerate discovery, encourage new and interdisciplinary approaches to ever more complex research challenges, and enable new computational research strategies. However, despite these opportunities for increasing access to knowledge, the prices of scholarly journals have risen sharply over the past two decades, often forcing libraries to cancel subscriptions.  Today even the wealthiest institutions cannot afford to sustain all of the journals needed by their faculties and students.

To take advantage of the opportunities created by the Internet and to further their mission of creating, preserving, and disseminating knowledge, many academic institutions are taking steps to capture the benefits of more open research sharing. Colleges and universities have built digital repositories to preserve and distribute faculty scholarly articles and other research outputs. Many individual authors have taken steps to retain the rights they need, under copyright law, to allow their work to be made freely available on the Internet and in their institution’s repository. And, faculties at some institutions have adopted resolutions endorsing more open access to scholarly articles.

Most recently, on February 12, 2008, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) at Harvard University took a landmark step.  The faculty voted to adopt a policy requiring that faculty authors send an electronic copy of their scholarly articles to the university’s digital repository and that faculty authors automatically grant copyright permission to the university to archive and to distribute these articles unless a faculty member has waived the policy for a particular article. Essentially, the faculty voted to make open access to the results of their published journal articles the default policy for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University.

As of March 2008, a proposal is also under consideration in the University of California system by which faculty authors would commit routinely to grant copyright permission to the university to make copies of the faculty’s scholarly work openly accessible over the Internet.

Inspired by the example set by the Harvard faculty, this White Paper is addressed to the faculty and administrators of academic institutions who support equitable access to scholarly research and knowledge, and who believe that the institution can play an important role as steward of the scholarly literature produced by its faculty.  This paper discusses both the motivation and the process for establishing a binding institutional policy that automatically grants a copyright license from each faculty member to permit deposit of his or her peer-reviewed scholarly articles in institutional repositories, from which the works become available for others to read and cite.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. Overview  

A. Why Did the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Adopt Its University License Policy?   
B. What Can You Do On Your Local Campus?   
C. What Is a University License and Why Is It Important?  

II. Plan of Action  

A. What Is the Right Process for Bringing About Policy Change?   
B. If a Vote by Faculty is Needed, How Can I Bring One About?   

Case 1—Broad License Grant   
Case 2—Intermediate License Grant   
Case 3—Narrow License Grant  

C. What Is Needed to Implement a Policy Change?  

III. Conclusion  

Appendix A - Action steps checklist   
Appendix B - Sample addendum to publication agreement  

About SPARC   
About Science Commons 

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Editorial: Unmasking P2P secrets on campuses

"Interesting article on internal university wide p2p sharing" -- Stephen

Editorial: Unmasking P2P secrets on campuses

By Don Tennant

May 5, 2008 (Computerworld) This is coming to you from St. Louis, where I participated in the inaugural Gateway to Innovation conference organized by several local IT associations. With academia well represented at the event, some of the loudest buzz at the conference surrounded the characteristics of students planning to enter the IT profession.

Meanwhile, on campuses all over the country, many of those students are engaged in an activity that no one seems inclined to talk about. On this day, as every day, students are silently stealing property by flagrantly violating copyright law.

Suppose you were a student at one of those universities, with experience in journalism both on a professional level and as a former editor in chief of the school newspaper and an intern at Computerworld. Now, imagine you became aware of an explosive development involving the university's peer-to-peer file-sharing network and its widespread use by students for illegal downloads of copyrighted material.

You know that the development is an important news story for the school paper and perhaps for outside media as well.

But there are at least two problems. For one, you risk becoming a pariah for writing about a topic that many of your classmates want kept out of the spotlight. For another, you're among the large swath of students who engage in illegal downloading, and the story will "out" you.

What would you do?

That's the quandary that my son Dan, a student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, found himself in a couple of weeks ago. It didn't take him long to come to a decision. He wrote the story.

Dan's article recounted the rise and fall of a group of students called The 40 Thieves, whose initial mission was to outsmart WPI's network operations center by countering its measures to block BitTorrent downloads. The 40 Thieves were successful enough to allow a degree of arrogance to set in, and they extended their activities beyond WPI's internal network to include self-credited distribution of illegally sourced content.

That brazen expansion turned out to be ill-advised. With the activity now outside the university's perimeter, the network operations center moved to disable the peer-to-peer network entirely — but not before it had monitored enough to enable it to disband The 40 Thieves.

Dan reported that four of the students were summoned before the campus hearing board and charged with violating the university's code of conduct and acceptable-use policy. When two were tried before the board last month, one was suspended, and the other was put on probation. The other two will be tried early next year. Most of the rest in the group are banned from wireless and residence-hall Internet access for one year.

There's little doubt that there's concern within some quarters on the WPI campus that the development reflects negatively on the school's image. No university wants to be seen as a hotbed of copyright infringement, regardless of how exemplary its handling of the problem might be. So the idea of publicizing the case probably received few ringing endorsements on campus.

It's to WPI's credit that no one in the administration made any attempt to discourage Dan from reporting the story. At this writing, the story has been filed to the school paper, but it has yet to be published. While I assume it will appear on the paper's Web site at some point, I have posted the full story in my blog to ensure that it does see the light of day.

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What's clear from all this is that universities need to be more proactive in dealing with these file-sharing networks. WPI didn't dissuade Dan from writing the story, but there should have been more of an effort to deter students from illegal downloading in the first place.

That means more than the passive act of posting an acceptable-use policy. It means a zero-tolerance policy backed by an ongoing education campaign that makes it more difficult for students to rationalize the acceptability of copyright infringement.

Don Tennant is editorial director of Computerworld and InfoWorld. Contact him at don_tennant@computerworld.com, and visit his blog at http://blogs.computerworld.com/tennant.

Editorial: Unmasking P2P secrets on campuses

p2pnet news » Blog Archive » Canadian copyrights: five myths

"Seems to me that these myths aren't just limited to Canada....."  -- Stephen

Canadian copyrights: five myths

p2pnet news view | Politics:- Last week, James Rajotte, the Chair of the Standing Committee on Industry, told a Public Policy Forum conference on intellectual property that Industry Minister Jim Prentice hopes to introduce the highly contentious copyright bill within the next few weeks.

The announcement, which comes just days after the United States raised copyright with Prime Minister Stephen Harper at the SPP meeting in New Orleans, suggests that the concerns of business, education, and consumers may be cast aside in order to pacify U.S. pressure on the file.

Indeed, the decision to press ahead with copyright in a manner that Liberal Industry critic Scott Brison recently labeled as “anything but transparent” is particularly troubling given concerns that the bill may be based on five myths that are frequently raised with respect to Canadian copyright.

1. The Importance of Copyright. In recent months, there have been increasing attempts to link copyright reform with the government’s broader innovation agenda. While copyright and intellectual property policies are unquestionably important in this regard, an innovation strategy depends upon far more than just copyright reform. A vibrant venture capital community, competitive tax structure, highly skilled workforce, and world-class communication infrastructure all play a critical role in investment decisions and the commercialization of new innovation. In fact, the World Economic Forum recently pointed to excessive red tape in establishing a new business and the high costs of Internet and wireless access as the weakest part of Canada’s “network readiness.”

2. Consultation and Reform. Given the slow pace of copyright reform, it is natural for some to mistakenly believe that Canada has widely consulted on reform with little to show for it. In fact, the opposite is true. The last national consultation on digital copyright reform took place in 2001, a time that pre-dates the introduction of the now-ubiquitous Apple iPod and the emergence of popular sites such as Facebook, MySpace, and Flickr. Although critics decry Canada’s “outdated” copyright laws, the reality is that there has been a steady stream of reforms over the past two decades. The Copyright Act faced major overhauls in the late 1980s and 1990s, with smaller amendments in 1992. Moreover, Canada passed new copyright laws related to Internet retransmission in 2002 and anti-camcording legislation last year.

3. Canada in the World. A consistent theme in recent years has been the characterization of Canadian copyright law as “outdated, weak, or ineffective” in comparison to the rest of the world. Much of this criticism comes from the U.S., which has consistently placed Canada on its Special 301 list of countries with intellectual property laws that merit “watching.” Yet these inflammatory claims do not withstand even mild scrutiny. The U.S. Special 301 list includes nearly 50 countries representing 4.4 billion people (about 70 percent of the planet) and 13 of the top 20 countries worldwide as measured by GDP. Viewed in that light, Canada is in good company.

Moreover, the World Economic Forum ranked Canada’s intellectual property protection fourth in G8, ahead of both the U.S. and Japan. That ranking may reflect the fact that there are many areas where Canadian law is actually far stronger than the U.S., including our more limited fair dealing provision, the existence of crown copyright, the significantly higher copyright fees for broadcasters and educators, as well as Canada’s the heavy reliance on copyright collectives.

4. Copyright in the World. Among the most troubling claims associated with copyright are the assertions that Canada must follow the U.S. model in order to comply with the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Internet treaties. Nothing could be further from the truth. In recent months, New Zealand passed copyright legislation that includes far more flexibility that the U.S. model, while Israel - well known for an innovative technology sector - rejected the need for WIPO reforms altogether. Canada has the ability to craft a “made in Canada” solution that meets our needs but rejects reforms that have had negative effects on research, security, and consumer rights in other countries.

5. Copyright Consensus. Advocates of immediate reform argue that copyright is too contentious to achieve a broad consensus and that leadership is therefore needed to push ahead with legislation despite the opposition. However, a closer look at the publicly held positions of many key stakeholders reveals that there is an emerging copyright consensus in Canada. Artists groups (Canadian Music Creators Coalition, Appropriation Art), business groups (Balanced Copyright Business Coalition), education groups (Canadian Association of University Teachers, Canadian Federation of Students), and consumer groups have largely coalesced around principles that include a rejection of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act, preservation of user rights, greater flexibility within fair dealing, and the targeting of clear cases of commercial counterfeiting. Such an approach benefits creators, users, and the business community and therefore holds the promise of a consensus-based roadmap for reform.

Michael Geist
[Geist is the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa. He can be reached by email at mgeist[at]uottawa.ca and is on-line at www.michaelgeist.ca.]

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Launch of Open Humanities Press » Subaltern Studies

"humanities open access journals announcements"  -- Stephen

Launch of Open Humanities Press

By Kishore Budha • May 5th, 2008 • Category: Announcements

Brussels, Belgium - On May 12, 2008, the Open Humanities Press (OHP) will launch with 7 of the leading Open Access journals in critical and cultural theory. A non-profit, international grass-roots initiative, OHP marks a watershed in the growing embrace of Open Access in the humanities.

“OHP is a bold and timely venture” said J. Hillis Miller, Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine, a long-time supporter of the Open Access movement and OHP board member. “It is designed to make peer-reviewed scholarly and critical works in a number of humanistic disciplines and cross-disciplines available free online. Initially primarily concerned with journals, OHP may ultimately also include book-length writings. This project is an admirable response to the current crisis in scholarly publishing and to the rapid shift from print media to electronic media. This shift, and OHP’s response to it, are facets of what has been called ‘critical climate change.’”

“The future of scholarly publishing lies in Open Access” agreed Jonathan Culler, Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University and fellow member of OHP’s editorial advisory board. “Scholars in the future should give careful consideration to the where they publish, since their goal should be to make the products of their research as widely available as possible, to people throughout the world. Open Humanities Press is a most welcome initiative that will help us move in this direction.”

OHP will give new confidence to humanities academics who wish to make their work freely accessible but have concerns about the academic standards of online publishing. In addition to being peer-reviewed, all OHP journals undergo rigorous vetting by an editorial board of leading humanities scholars.

OHP’s board includes Alain Badiou, Chair of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure, Donna Haraway, Professor of the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies, UC Santa Cruz, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Director of the International Center for Writing and Translation, UC Irvine, Gayatri Spivak, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University, Peter Suber, Open Access Project Director for Public Knowledge and Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College, and Stephen Greenblatt, Cogan University Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University, who has been leading the public debate on the crisis of academic publishing in the humanities.

“Open-access publishing in serious, peer-reviewed online scholarly journals is one of the keys to solving a financial crisis that has afflicted university libraries everywhere and has had a chilling effect on virtually every academic discipline” said Greenblatt.”Making scholarly work available without charge on the internet has offered hope for the natural sciences and now offers hope in the humanities.”

With initial offerings in continental philosophy, cultural studies, new media, film and literary criticism, OHP serves researchers and students as the Open Access gateway for editorially-vetted scholarly literature in the humanities. The first journals to become part of OHP are Cosmos and History, Culture Machine, Fibreculture, Film-Philosophy, International Journal of Zizek Studies, Parrhesia and Vectors.

“But it’s not simply a matter of what Open Access can do for the humanities” added Gary Hall, Professor of Media and Performing Arts at Coventry University, co-editor of Culture Machine and one of the co-founders of OHP. “It is also a case of what can the humanities do for Open Access. Researchers, editors and publishers in the humanities have developed very different professional cultures and intellectual practices to the STMs who have dominated the discussion around Open Access to date. OHP is ideally positioned to explore some of the exciting new challenges and perspectives in scholarly communication that are being opened up for Open Access as it is increasingly adopted within the humanities.”

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Open Humanities Press is an international Open Access publishing collective specializing in critical and cultural theory. OHP was formed by academics to overcome the current crisis in scholarly publishing that threatens intellectual freedom and academic rigor worldwide. OHP journals are academically certified by OHP’s independent board of international scholars. All OHP publications are peer-reviewed, published under open access licenses, and freely and immediately available online at www.openhumanitiespress.org .

Launch of Open Humanities Press » Subaltern Studies

Millburn surgeon finds Rx to help less fortunate - NJVoices: Bob Braun

"Open access plastic surgery journal"  -- Stephen

Millburn surgeon finds Rx to help less fortunate

Posted by Bob Braun May 05, 2008 8:23AM

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It's a measure of priorities, an odd one, but telling, says the doctor. In the African island nation of Mauritius, there is one plastic surgeon. In just one nearby hospital here, there are 65.

That Mauritian doctor doesn't do much cosmetic surgery -- face lifts or enhancements of other parts of the anatomy. He repairs faces and bodies disfigured by burns or wounds or accidents of birth.

And he does it with the help of a Millburn plastic surgeon and that doctor's temple congregation.

"He can be overwhelmed," says Mark Granick of fellow doctor R.P. Gunnesee. "He needs all the help he can get."

Granick, who has an assistant from the island, has gone to Mauritius twice with his wife, Carol Singer-Granick, a pediatric endocrinologist -- there are none of that sort of doctor on the island -- both to assist doctors and to bring over needed equipment, some $300,000 worth. He plans to go again this year.

Some instruments were donated by manufacturers, others were purchased with funds raised at Temple B'nai Jeshurun in Short Hills.

But what Gunnesee says he needs even more, Granick says, is current information. Research. New surgical techniques. The sort of material found in clinical journals that are not easily available -- a year's subscription can costs thousands.

So Granick, a professor and chief of plastic surgery at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey at Newark, did what he could do about that, too: He and two others established their own medical journal.

A free online, open-access journal that, while publishing scholarly articles on research in plastic surgery and related fields, also provides doctors all over the world with clinical instruction on surgical techniques.

"In many countries, this sort of information is just not available," says Granick.

The name of the journal is ePlasty: The Open Access Journal of Plastic Surgery.

Granick says the open-access approach of medical publishing offers a number of advantages. The articles are free to readers -- and thereby accessible to doctors working in countries where there simply is no money for journal subscriptions.

"But we insist on the same, rigorous academic standards that all scholarly journals maintain," says Granick. The articles are peer-reviewed, or refereed -- that means they are sent out to experts in the same fields for comments.

The turn-around time, the doctor says, is reduced.

"For a paper journal, it could be 18 months to two years before an article was published," Granick says. "We can get it posted in a matter of a few months. That means getting important new information to doctors throughout the world as quickly as possible."

Unlike paper journals with limited space, open-access, on-line journals have virtually unlimited space.

"So we make decisions on what is important to be published, not on what we have space for," Granick says.

The new journal contains pieces meant to be used in the training of residents and a presentation section that allows a multimedia format for showing just how surgical procedures are performed. Actual operations can be recorded and posted in the journal.

Only one section, a forum for the exchange of ideas, is limited because of federal privacy rules.

Like paper journals, ePlasty is supported by advertising from companies that sell, among other things, surgical instruments and other devices. The publication, which had its formal opening last month, so far is not self-supporting. Granick, his co-editor Stephen Milner of Johns Hopkins, and managing editor John Kucan of Southern Illinois University support the journal with their own funds.

"We do expect it to be financially independent soon," says Granick.

Advertisers can post information in what the journal calls "the exhibit hall."

"We've made it similar to the exhibit halls at medical conventions," he says.

That includes posted films of the touted instruments and devices in actual use.

"You can't do that in a paper journal," he says.

Millburn surgeon finds Rx to help less fortunate - NJVoices: Bob Braun

Media Blog - Mixed Media by Jeff Bercovici: Deep Read: The Case Against Facebook - Portfolio.com

 Media Blog - Mixed Media by Jeff Bercovici: Deep Read: The Case Against Facebook - Portfolio.com

 

"Look at this neat posting on facebook....."

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Deep Read: The Case Against Facebook

Did Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg build his $15 billion business on a stolen idea?

It's not a new charge, but 02138, the Harvard magazine, takes a fresh look at the evidence leveled against Zuckerberg by several classmates who are suing him. It's hard to read it and not come away with the impression that Zuckerberg did some pretty unethical stuff, and then lied to cover his tracks.

There are two main questions at hand: Whether Zuckerberg, who was supposed to be working on a rival social-networking site in the months before he debuted Facebook, actively stalled his supposed collaborators to get a head start; and whether he purloined the code he was supposed to be perfecting.

On the first question, the answer seems to be yes. At a minimum, Zuckerberg has misrepresented when he started work on Facebook. Zuckerberg has said he didn't begin until Jan. 14, 2004, when he informed the founders of Harvard Connection that he would no longer be working for them. That was always suspicious, as Facebook went live less than three weeks later. And indeed, reports 02138, court documents show that Zuckerberg had already registered his domain by Jan. 11, and on Jan. 12 he emailed a partner to say the site was almost complete.

As for the code, Zuckerberg has said "[t]here is really good documentation" that Facebook's code was not based on Harvard Connection's. But it turns out there's not:

Zuckerberg has been on notice since September 2004 to preserve information relevant to the case, but for some time Facebook claimed they couldn't produce a shred of source code from when Zuckerberg first began working for Harvard Connection, the original Facebook code, or even the Facebook code in October 2004, one month after the original suit was filed. Zuckerberg's lawyers have held that nearly all the early Facebook code has disappeared, wiped from outside servers long ago or lost on missing or corrupted hard drives.

02138 has posted documents from the case here.

Media Blog - Mixed Media by Jeff Bercovici: Deep Read: The Case Against Facebook - Portfolio.com