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Portolan Charts: The First Wikis?
Thirteenth-century sailors circulated navigational maps known as “portolan charts,” which they supplemented and edited based on their individual knowledge and e…
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Record Oil Company Profits: Redistributing Wealth from Consumers to Stockholders
Record oil comany profits redistribute wealth from consumers to stockholdres Oil Companies Redistributing Wealth.pdf…
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Trying to perceive things that aren't true
David Brooks in today's NYT : "My sense is that this financial crisis is going to amount to a coming-out party for behavioral economists and others who…
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Florida Clean Cars Filing
An analysis of the benfits to Florida of adopting the California Clean Cars Emission Standards. FloridaCleanCarsfiling.pdf…
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Proposal to Extend Copyright Duration for Performances und Sound Recordings in Europe Criticized
As known to many, the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 (CTEA) added 20 years to the duration of copyrights. Writing for the majority in Eldred v. Ashcroft,…
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Crossing over
Eric Hirshberg in the Huffington Post: "There are a number of people in my life -- some family, some friends, some colleagues -- with whom I have never agr…
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A Trillion Here, A Trillion There
What has the on-going financial crisis to do with information law? Everything Financial services today are regulated by laws written when Bonnie and Clyde wer…
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Early hormone exposure and later political inclinations
Olivia Judson in the NYT: "First, according to a report published last month in the journal Science, strong political views are correlated with distinct ph…
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Packets Vol. 6 No. 1 Now Available
Packets Vol. 6 No. 1 is online here. Packets is production of the Stanford Center for Internet & Society (CIS). It is written by members of the Stanford La…
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Lessig Book Party: SF 10/29
Join us as we Celebrate the Release of Professor Larry Lessig's new Book! Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy purchase at amazon O…
Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
Book Website The reigning authority on intellectual property in the Internet age, Lawrence Lessig spotlights the newest and possibly the most harmful culture w…
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Breach of Conditions in Free and Open Source Software Licenses May Constitute Copyright Infringement
Author: Evan Berquist Appellant Jacobsen holds a copyright for computer software designed to control model trains that he made available free of charge to the…