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Section 230 Immunity and the Roommates.com Case
I write in href="http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Opinion/Avoiding-Web-Rocks-and-Shoals/">this month’s CIO Insight about the 9th Circuit’s en banc dec…
Larry Downes
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The Writer's Strike and the Battle for Virtual Value
I have a short article in CIO Insight this month about the href="http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Opinion/A-Virtual-Battle-for-Value/">real meaning o…
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(Over) Simplifying the Complex
A few weeks ago, I published an op-ed opposing pending Net Neutrality legislation. The editorial appeared simultaneously on both href="http://www.news.com…
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Microsoft's EU Antitrust Case: A Clearly Bad Precedent
This week, Microsoft dropped its appeal in the European version of the antitrust action against the company that has been proceeding for about ten years. The E…
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The Madness of Software Copyrights
My column in the current issue of CIO Insight, href="http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1540,2182447,00.asp">“Battle Over Linux: When a Win May…
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The Pointless Debate over Privacy
In my current column in CIO Insight, href="http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1540,2159182,00.asp">“The Pointless Privacy Debate” I write that t…
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On the Shoulders of Giants
I write this month in CIO Insight, href="http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1540,2124841,00.asp">“IP Law vs. Moore’s Law,” that the legal fictio…
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Supreme Court’s Patent Cases: Angels? Dancing? On?
I’ve just read the opinions released on Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court in two separate patent cases, KSR v. Teleflex and Microsoft v. AT&T. Though the bu…
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(Cyber) Crime and Punishment - Worries about the Convention on Cybercrime
href="http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1540,2100916,00.asp">My column in this month's CIO Insight describes a few of the big concerns I hav…
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The revolution will be televised...on YouTube
I am working in Europe this week with a large technology company, and of course everyone is talking about the filing of a $1 billion copyright infringement case…
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Viacom and Joost and YouTube, Oh My
Viacom agreed to license some of its vast content to Joost today, only a few weeks after ordering YouTube to pull 100,000 unauthorized clips from its programs f…
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Apple v Apple: Helter Skelter
Apple (computer) and Apple (records) announced yesterday they had once again (finally?) resolved their trademark dispute, which dated back to the formation of t…