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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-…
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Take the Podcast Survey and pass it along to your community
I was contacted by researchers from the International University Bremen in Germany about a podcast study they are conducting (yes, the survey is in English!) .…
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Pam Samuelson is going to fix the Copyright Act
I attended a really fun reception last night at the fancy Hotel Vitale in San Francisco hosted by Harvard Law School's Berkman Center. One of the co-hosts w…
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that was random
At the end of our last panel, an older gentleman walked into the room, introduced himself as a Berkeley graduate, and proceeded to engage in an entirely off-top…
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nice quote
There's always another perspective we have to consider in the privacy debate. Matt Lamberti, Asst. U.S. Attorney, just noted that "when you talk about…
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some themes today
For all of the high-level discussion of fourth amendment doctrine today, a couple of more concrete themes have struck me as particularly salient today: First,…
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RFID demonstration - Wow!
Nicky Ozer's panel has been the most interactive panel so far. Nicky played a YouTube video of news coverage of the RFID reader that was hacked in the Calif…
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live at the CIS/STLR Digital Privacy Symposium
It's break time now at CIS/STLR's Digital Privacy Symposium, so what better time for a blog post? The day has been going well so far -- we've had th…
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Rejecting bipartisanship
Krugman in the Times today: "...the nastiness of modern American politics isn’t the result of a random outbreak of bad manners. It’s a symptom of deeper fa…
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Europe’s Cultural and Scientific Heritage in a Digital World
This international conference will take place in Berlin, 21-22 February 2007. From the website: Digitisation of cultural assets is an increasingly important to…
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How public opinion on artistic practices changes
First it was "Rip! Mix! and Burn!" Now it is simply just "Burn!" It is the second time in a few weeks when an artist is caught "red-ha…