Stanford Center for Internet and Society

After much wrestling with my past chagrin at being the disappointed early-adopter, I broke down yesterday and got my iPhone. It's wonderful.

This funny music video (sung to the tune of "My Way") and featuring David Pogue's views on the iPhone, just made my morning.

Some good news today on the Net Radio front:

SoundExchange offers temporary reprieve on 'Net radio royalty increase

Net Radio Wins Partial Reprieve as Royalties Loom

The award winning video blog Alive In Baghdad will be appearing on ABC's Good Morning America on Thursday, July 5. Here's the info direct from the AiB team:

{Cross Posting from Rules for the Revolution Blog}

Creative Commons of Canada announced today that it has published a Canadian version (.pdf) of our Podcasting Legal Guide. This is great! I'm going to start reading it tonight!

The Copyright Office recently released a new site geared towards young people to "take the mystery out of copyright." I've finally taken a look at the information in the videos and accompanying materials, and it's all pretty factual and reliable information in my opinion.

The Copyright Office reports it's final rule about electronic copyright submissions and fees. Starting July 2 (for a limited number of copyright claims) it will begin accepting submissions of electronic copyright applications. The fees for electronic submissions will be $10 less than paper.

Eric Saltzman (PSS Systems, Inc.) started us off with a quick summary of the main changes to the FRCP regarding discovery:

(1) adding "electronically stored information" -- to the definition of discoverable materials.

I'm enjoying a good day here at Stanford's E-Commerce Best Practices conference. Eric Sinrod, James Grimmelman and Seth Steinberg of Lucas Arts are speaking about the interesting events going on in virtual worlds. Linden Labs, World of Warcraft, Blizzard, etc.

Also, I just finished panelizing with Denise Howell, Glenn Brown of Google, and Andrew Bridges of Winston & Strawn about "Monetizing Non-Traditional Content."

Though I'm not blogging the whole conference this year, I am enjoying the time to connect with friends here and enjoy the panels and presentations by some of the people in the trenches on the issues faced in e-commerce.

The New York Times Tech Talk podcast has a segment in today's episode featuring a listener question about music licensing on the web. I was interviewed by Tom Holcolmb to answer these questions. The segment starts at 11:50 min., but give the whole episode a listen.