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Is Using Open Wireless Networks Illegal?
Alaska police are considering pursuing criminal charges against a 21 year old who was playing online games in the parking lot of the local public library. The a…
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Patently Bad Move Gags Critics
Last week, RFID access device company HID Global got IOActive researcher Chris Paget to pull his talk from Black Hat DC because they claimed that demonstrating…
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How I started my mediation practice
There's an ADR-related game of blog tag going on out there around "how I started my mediation practice." Tammy started it, I think, then Diane ta…
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Copynorms
In the last few weeks I bumped into several articles addressing the question why people feel OK to up- and download mp3s despite all the laws and legal threats,…
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Board Member Davis Guggenheim Wins Oscar For Inconvenient Truth
Our Documentary Film Program (announced here last week) is fortunate to be guided by an advisory board that includes some immensely talented filmmakers, includi…
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Bling
Premiering this Spring, Bling examines the complex relationship between hip-hop music and culture, "blood" diamonds, conflict, and community developme…
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Wal-Mart: The High Cost Of Low Price
Wal Mart: The High Cost Of Low Price dives into the deeply personal stories and everyday lives of families and communities struggling to fight a goliath. A work…
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A Fair(y) Use Tale
Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University created this humorous, yet informative, review of copyright principles delivered through the words of the very folks…
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Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War On Journalism
Outfoxed examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have been running a "race to the bottom" in television news. This film prov…
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Bay Area Blawgers Meet Up - March 28
Eric Goldman and the High Tech Law Institute are hosting a legal bloggers meet up in Santa Clara on March 28... Mark your calendars and rsvp. Here are the detai…
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CC Licensing and Copyright Abandonment
In a fresh law review article Prof. Lydia Pallas Loren explores a number of interesting issues concerning Creative Commons licensing. The article proposes to a…
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Upcoming Panel Discussion: Are Patents "Private Property" Under the Fifth Amendment?
More information after the jump... The modern regulatory state affects all forms of property rights, from land to chattels to intellectual property. The only c…