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Shloss hearing
I attended the motion to dismiss hearing in the Shloss v. Estate of Joyce case on Wednesday morning. Here a photo of Professor Shloss and two people from the le…
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Query By Humming: Whistle While You Work
For several years I’ve been following advances in ‘Music Information Retrieval’ (MIR), mostly through a Music IR list. This heavily academic community present…
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RIP Molly Ivins
Molly Ivins was one of the few voices that kept me sane back in my formative days in North Texas. And man, could she write... as James Thurman put it, when she…
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Zimbio's cool blogging tool
Zimbio is a cool web 2.0 collaborative media company, that has developed a great tool for promoting your blog. (Full disclosure: Zimbio is a client of my firm,…
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Photos from Digital Privacy Symposium
I have posted pictures from our live symposium event last Friday on my Flickr page. Thanks to everyone who helped make the event a success! Also, thanks to Lau…
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Employees and the Fourth Amendment
Today, a three judge panel from the Ninth Circuit withdrew its opinion in United States v. Zeigler and issued a new opinion. As you may remember, the original…
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Second Life's sense of humor... it's a parody!
This post from the Legal Blog Watch brought a smile to my face. It reports on the wonderful sense of humor of the attorneys over at Second Life. A recent parod…
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Open Source Licensing - Revisioning the Good
This morning I came across Stacy Cowley's article GPL 3: An Open Source Earthquake?. As a member of OGC Consortium, the group responsible for developing ge…
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Hearsayculture.com Lives
At long last, and after repeated mentions on my radio show and podcast, Hearsay Culture, I am pleased to announce that Hearsayculture.com is live. The webpage…
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Kahle v. Gonzales v. Berne
There is one thing about the 9th Circuit’s decision in Kahle v. Gonzales that I could not find any discussion about – namely, the international copyright law im…
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Lessig on Kahle decision
here. Though the Court acknowledged that there had been a change from an opt-in to an opt-out system of copyright, the court held that because Eldred had resol…
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File sharing in Italy: profit or non-profit?
From ALCEI - Electronic Frontiers Italy (www.alcei.org) There has been wide reporting, in Italy and internationally, that an Italian court "ruled not-for-…