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MPAA kills Anti-Pretexting Bill
Wired News reports that MPAA killed a comprehensive CA pretexting bill because they didn't want it to hamper their private investigators who use pretexting…
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Most blogged article on NYT today is a primary source document
Many people have been saying for a long time that one great benefit of publishing news online is that publishers are not constrained by page limits. Today, the…
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On the HP Debacle
In my column in CIO Insight this month, http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1540,2059021,00.asp, I note that in addition to legal alternatives to getting the i…
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An Encouraging Fair Use Decision From The Second Circuit
Here is a very encouraging case from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, Blanch v. Koons. Visual artist Jeff Koons is no stranger to the courts. Specializing…
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Update on primary and secondary authority searches for "fair use" defense of unlicensed video clips
Yesterday I finished my draft of my preliminary search results for primary and secondary authority covering the application of the fair use defense to 'borr…
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"Jesus Christ: The Musical" Gets New Life
Last August, film-maker Javier Prato received a cease and desist letter from Universal Music, who complained that his short film, “Jesus Christ: The Musical,” w…
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Faux bipartisanship?
David Sirota: "...is the real problem afflicting our political system a lack of so-called "bipartisanship" or is it actually too much bipartisan…
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Participatory culture report
The Rise of Participation Culture reports and summarizes a number of trends and explains "why the Internet and a new wave of Web applications have been emb…
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youtube vs. google vs. revver (from Chris Pirillo)
This is too funny. I had to share it here. Check out Chris Pirillo's comparison of YouTube vs. GoogleVideo vs. Revver. When I do the comparison from my DSL…
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SF Half Marathon / Team in Training
I've just joined the Silicon Valley Team in Training chapter to train for a half marathon this Spring. All Team in Training members commit to raise funds a…
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Pew/Internet research on podcasting
Last week the Pew/Internet & American Life Project issued a Data Memo about Podcast Downloading. It concludes that 12% of internet users have dowloaded a po…
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www.warsystems.hu
Please see my research blog at www.warsystems.hu, where i post news clipping from the world of intellectual property and file-sharing daily.…