Stanford Center for Internet and Society

Robert Ambroji has a nice article in Law.com's In-House Counsel section on wikis and their use in the legal profession. He highlights a number of law-related wikis that may be good resources for attorneys. Ones I especially like are EFF's Internet Law Treatise, Cornel's Wex, and CC's wiki. THough I haven't used it much, I'm curious how much success WikiPatents will have in improving the quality of issued patents.

The latest episode of This Week In Law includes Ian Ballon as a guest and discusses the latest in electronic commerce or "Internet Law". The episode starts off with a brief discussion about what it means to have "ecommerce" or "internet" as a type of law.

About a week ago the Ninth Circuit issued this ruling that analyzes the difference between a collective work and a derivative work in a copyright infringement case involving K2's use of a photographer's copyrighted images.

Episode 13 of Rules for the Revolution covers issues related to trademarks, corporate names, and domain names, and includes a brief discussion about the initial meeting between a client and her attorney.

After the recent Copyright Royalty Board decision (pdf), which set the new rates for webcasting (web radio and any other streaming audio over the internet), it became clear that many web radio stations would fold under the weight of the new rate structure. For college radio, the situation is even more dire.

Haven't had a chance yet to read the full opinion yet, but the bottom line of this important ruling from the S.D.N.Y. is that a "download" of a file embodying a particular song is not a "public performance" of that song under the copyright act.

I've posted the latest few episodes of my podcast, Rules For The Revolution.

Matt Burrows, one of my co-fellows here at CIS, gave a good talk today about how we ended up where we are today in the world of digital media. These are my notes from his talk:

Some initial caveats:
-these are his personal comments, not those of apple
-he's not an engineer -
-can't comment on litigation at apple etc.

Last week I moderated a panel at the Bar Association of San Francisco about the proposed California Rules of Professional Conduct 7.1-7.5 (governing attorney advertising & solicitation), the First A

I spoke today about fair use and video policy at the Video on the Net conference in San Jose. My slides are available in flickr. It was great to see Denise, and meet our co-speakers Jonathan Askin and Jonathan Taplin. Denise's slides (which are much more entertaining than mine!) are available in her flickr stream.