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Social Finance 101: Internet Fuels Coal-Fired Environmentalism
Thomas Friedman's NY Times article today Marching with a Mouse provides vivid tribute to the financial market power of transparent accountability. Back in…
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Widgets aren’t welcome in TheirSpace
The NYT has the story about a popular blogger, Ms. Tequila, who was apparently contacted personally by MySpace’s founder, Tom Anderson, explaining to her why sh…
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Beginnings of Morality in Primate Behavior
Nicholas Wade in today's NYT: "... primatologists have shown... a sizable overlap between the behavior of people and other social primates..." &q…
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ODR Seminar at UMass-Boston in mid-June
I'm teaching "Online Dispute Resolution: The State of the Art" at my alma mater, UMass-Boston, on Wednesday, June 13th, right before eBay Live the…
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The Fundamental Problem
After finally reading the briefs from Eldred v. Ashcroft, I have reinvigorated mentally gymnastics about the problem with the application – and continuing exist…
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Celebrity Gossip Blogging--Fair Use or Infringement?
I must admit that I enjoy occasionally perusing the celebrity gossip websites. The salacious tidbits on these sites instill a reassuring sense of normalcy and s…
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Copyright's Loophole
Copyright assignment law seems to contain a massive loophole that has not been addressed by either Congress or the Courts. As a result, it is possible that an…
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CC Announces CCLearn; ED Position Open
Creative Commons is launching a new initiative CCLearn "to break down the barriers - whether legal, technical or cultural - between different collections o…
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The Future Of Political Media: An Example And A Metaphor
This video may be our first glimpse of just how different, if not revolutionary, the 2008 presidential election may be. The ability of ordinary people to creat…
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Viacom v. YouTube: Uncertainty, Investment And Innovation
A lot has been said about Viacom's billion dollar lawsuit against YouTube and Google. In his editorial in last Sunday's New York Times, Larry Lessig po…
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AssignmentZero
Jay Rosen's NewAssignment.net and Wired News just launched AssignmentZero, "an attempt to bring journalists together with people in the public who can…
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Pirates and Hollywood
I am researching for my talk to be delivered to the International Intellectual Property Program at Chicago-Kent Law School. This is how I have found what I bel…