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Scrutinizing The URAA

Two years ago, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals broke new ground. It held the URAA's restoration of copyrights in public domain works departed from the &q…

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Forcing our brains to evolve

Matt Harding, NPR's Weekend Edition today: "I believe globalization is forcing our brains to evolve. I've had the privilege to see a lot more of t…

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Did you know?

Interesting/humbling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIDLIwlzkgY Supposedly this is a year old (though I'd never seen it before) so the numbers are even bi…

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Conflict Resolution Governance

Daniel Schorr on NPR: "The president tends to seek conflict resolution rather than drama. He has been compared to Franklin D. Roosevelt, confronted with an…

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Universal Service in the Broadband Age

Proposal to serve those without braodband available by using stimulus funding to deploy middle mile fiber and provision the first mile with cutting edge wireles…

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Yes, A Copyright Law Joke

You don't see a lot of law comics, much less comics about copyright law.  Does this clever cartoon from across the Web describe an instance of fair use?  Yo…

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Get Your Kirk On

Thomas Vinciguerra in the NYT: "So what, beyond pushing buttons, do these men — as all Kirk chair owners appear to be — do with the most conspicuous piece…

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Amnesia in the Face of Crisis

It’s fascinating to witness the public reaction as the newspaper industry implodes.  Young people are largely indifferent while older generations seem to think…