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ICANN's Plan for New Top Level Domains
ICANN’s recent initiative to open the generic domain names space to an application, register-your-favorite-gTLD process struck me as very problematic from the m…
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Two Serious Problems With GPS-Aided Car Repossession
A recent Computerworld blog post shows how tone deaf we can be about the implications of new technology. A group of car dealers in Oregon apparently attached…
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My Buddies App On Facebook: Privacy Extortion?
UPDATE (Dec. 14, 2008): A user has created a Facebook Group against My Buddies. Meanwhile, as Beth says below, My Buddies has mutated into My Friends... I rec…
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Lexicon Resurrected
As announced yesterday and reported first by the Leaky Cauldron and then the Associated Press, RDR Books has withdrawn its appeal from the Court's decision…
Golan v. Holder - Government's Motion for Summary Judgment in the District Court
The Golan case was back before the District Court on remand to determine whether the URAA can survive First Amendment scrutiny. Each side cross-moved for summar…
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Updegrove on "A Standards Agenda For The Obama Administration"
Andy Updegrove of Gesmer Updegrove in Boston advises standards setting organizations on navigating the legal waters surrounding production of technical standard…
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James Gleick on the Google Book Search Deal
In case you have not seen it yet, here’s James Gleick’s OP-ED in the NYT, discussing the settlement between Google and book authors and publishers. The interest…
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Hearsay Culture selected as one of the ABA Journal’s Blawg 100 of 2008
I am thrilled and honored to announce that Hearsay Culture has been listed in the American Bar Association ("ABA") Journal's Blawg 100 of 2008, as…
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Search Terms May Bolster Case Against Casey Anthony
The United Press International reports that "[n]ewly released documents in Florida's Caylee Anthony case show ominous search words entered on the famil…
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Obama’s Tech Team: Agency Insiders With Silicon Valleyues
A Washington Post tech blogger reports that President-elect Barak Obama has named a team to guide technology policy for the administration: Julius Genachowski (…
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Music Sampling Does Not Infringe on Copyright, But…
The German Supreme Court (BGH) clarified last week that sampling does not infringe on copyright in the work from which samples were taken for the purpose of cre…
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Technological literacy and youth
Tamar Lewin in the NYT today: "Good news for worried parents: All those hours their teenagers spend socializing on the Internet are not a bad thing, accord…