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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…
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Defending The Lexicon
Yes, it's true. As Zohar Efroni reported, the Fair Use Project has signed on as co-counsel representing RDR Books in its litigation against J.K. Rowling an…
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Mulligan and Perzanowski on the Sony BMG Rootkit Fiasco
I have never seen an SSRN paper receiving 1700 recorded downloads in mere three days or so. This is exactly what happened to “The Magnificence of the Disaster:…