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Tim Wu On Why Rowling Is Wrong
Today on Slate, Columbia Law Professor Tim Wu lays out an excellent explanation of why RDR Books has the right to publish the Harry Potter Lexicon, and why J.K.…
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NYT on Searches of Computers at the Border
A fascinating article from today's New York Times: The search was not unusual: the government contends that it is perfectly free to inspect every laptop t…
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The Powder & The Glory
The Powder & the Glory tells the story of two of the first highly successful women entrepreneurs in America, Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein. One hund…
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Game theory and human destiny
I'm reading a fantastic book by Robert Wright called NonZero. As the website for the book describes it: '"Ingeniously employing game theory—the l…
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I love it
Reason’s Jesse Walker on the fall of Mitt Romney: “I have to confess I’m enjoying Mike Huckabee’s victory, even though I disagree with virtually all of his plat…
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A new generation of leaders
Gary Hart on the Huffington Post this morning: "A year or so ago I wrote a book entitled The Courage of Our Convictions. It urged Democratic leaders to res…
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When Judges Violate Copyright Free License Terms
I came across this anecdote earlier this week, reading in the Israeli press about a judge who quoted in a court opinion an article from the Hebrew Wikipedia, bu…
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Kahle v. Gonzales
In this case, two archives challenged statutes that extended copyright terms unconditionally—the Copyright Renewal Act and the Copyright Term Extension Act (CTE…
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Online you can be wild, tame, or both -- you decide
Stephanie Rosenbloom in today's Times : "Now that first impressions are often made in cyberspace, not face-to-face, people are not only strategizing ab…
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Recut, Reframe, Recycle
Pat Aufderheide, Peter Jaszi and their colleagues at American University's Center for Social Media have released a fantastic new study on creativity on the…
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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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Generosity in the Genes
"Generosity May Be Genetically Programmed, Israeli Study Says" by Alisa Odenheimer: "Philanthropists may be genetically programmed to donate to…