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Letter to a Young Sailor
From a posting by Col. Daniel Smith, U.S. Army (Ret.) on Foreign Policy in Focus: "...after my years in the army... I have come to the conclusion that warf…
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Viacom and Joost and YouTube, Oh My
Viacom agreed to license some of its vast content to Joost today, only a few weeks after ordering YouTube to pull 100,000 unauthorized clips from its programs f…
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Rep. Rick Boucher Shares Thoughts on Legislative Initiatives for New Congress
On Feb. 2, 2007, Rep. Rick Boucher (D., Va.) spoke at Stanford Law School as part of a speaker series sponsored by the Stanford Law and Policy Review ("SLP…
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Settling disputes with a blackberry
Patricia Cohen in the Times: "There was a time when ... points of trivia might arise at dinner or over drinks and lead to a brain-racking long debate or an…
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The "Myth" of natural human goodness
David Brooks column on Sunday really agitated me. It's thesis: "Sometimes a big idea fades {...} until it has almost disappeared. Such is the fate of t…
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Exploring the "online disinhibition effect"
I'm a big fan of Daniel Goleman, and he has an interesting piece in the New York Times this morning: "...[there is] a larger pattern plaguing the world…
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Evan is podcasting again!
I just discovered that Evan Brown has started up his Internet Cases Podcast again. Episode 25 comes after a 1-year hiatus and he jumps in with a quick discussio…
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Remix and Fairness
Professor Robert Merges has commented recently on the remix debate, making the point that present copyright law should not be fundamentally changed in order to…
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Victory in Shloss v. Estate of James Joyce
We won an important victory over the Estate of James Joyce's motion to dismiss last week in Shloss v. Estate of James Joyce. The Estate had moved to dismis…
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Internet at the next Ocean Tomo IP Auction
For the past year I’ve tracked the series of Ocean Tomo Patent / IP Auctions. The third in the series occurs April 2007 in Chicago, and I just received the cat…
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From Obama's announcement
It's clear he understands the importance of healing the divide: "...it's not the magnitude of our problems that concerns me the most. It's the…