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SIRA Bill
The Section 115 Reform Act of 2006 (SIRA) is a blanket license without an opt-out. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/06/0434242. And here's a s…
Matthew Margolin
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Boyle on Constitutional Circumvention
[from Random-bits] James Boyle in FT on WIPO Treaty: Constitutional circumvention http://news.ft.com/cms/s/fa07af4a-fadc-11da-b4d0-0000779e2340.html Tues…
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SCOTUS, Asteroids, and Breakout
You all probably know this, but someone alerted me to an interesting footnote of the SCOTUS EFF postion. >This theory appears to conflate two quite differen…
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Boyle-esque puzzle
Okay, y'all have already thought of this, but it just came to me: What would happen if we passed a law that said it was illegal to have been convicted of a…
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Do I need a JD to enjoy professional football?
Defending the cultural relevance of watching sports is the metaphorical equivalent of washing the greenpeace bumper sticker on your Hummer H2 with gasoline spra…
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SoundScan's Musicane
Well? Okay. It has a free version. I signed up for it. And it seems to work from a usability perspective. Is it me, or is Musicane an...enigmatic name? http:/…
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Reclassified Declassified Documents
Just 55,000 of them so far... From the National Security Archive The U.S. Intelligence Community's Secret Historical Document Reclassification Program Ed…
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SAG, Writer's Guild, Director's Guild Oppose Hollywoood Digital Distribution
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_12/b3976034.htm MARCH 20, 2006 MEDIA CENTRIC Dibs On The Download Dough Actors get just over a cent from ABC f…
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KPMG Worldwide Cellphone User Study
http://www.kpmg.com/news/index.asp?cid=1224 Taken from KPMG International website: Consumers and Convergence: Challenges and opportunities in meeting next gen…
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Netflix and Columbia Tristar Contract Text
Just thought you all might find this interesting...um, and then explain it to me. http://contracts.onecle.com/netflix/columbia.lic.2000.05.01.shtml Enjoy!…
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Other Spheres
I found this quote attributed to Tim O'Reilly -- my apologies if it's not accurate. For the sake of my remarks I'll need you all to believe it is a…
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Tabloids and Broadsheets
A journalism group released a study showing that tabloid format papers -- the San Francisco Bay Guardian is tabloid shaped, as opposed to the broadsheet publish…