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this cracks me up

Denise Howell's VOX blog pointed me to this hilarious royalty demand from Stephen Colbert to GooTube. The math appears to be remarkably similar to that of t…

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support the commons

It's no secret that I'm a big believer in the Creative Commons. They just launched their second annual fund raising campaign. Click on this button, a…

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I heart libraries

While in Seattle this past weekend, I finally visited the new public library (a recent rebuild was completed in 2004). It's wildly modern, with some great l…

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Starbucks v Starpreya - TM Korean Style

Since I'm in Seattle, it's hard to escape the news about the Starbucks losing a TM case in Korea against the purveyars of Starpreya coffee.  I'm not…

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Sunny Seattle

I just completed a lecture at Seattle University in Elizabeth Townsend-Gard's IP class. We had a good discussion about copyright and how it impacts citizen…

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Talking with Monsters

Nicholas Kristof had a great column in the New York Times this morning entitled "Talking With the Monsters." Here's an excerpt: "If there’…

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Articles section updated (again)

I have added several articles to the "articles" section that have been published in the past few months. They include: - a book and two essays on th…

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(Untitled)

Book review: Schulze, Jan-Andres, Der Irak-Krieg 2003 im Lichte der Wiederkehr des gerechten Krieges (Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005), in: RECHTSTHEORIE Vol…

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Verwaltungsreform in Rheinland-Pfalz. Ein Beitrag zur Debatte um die Zukunft der Verbandsge­meindeverfassung. Gemeinde- und Städtebund Rheinland-Pfalz, Mainz…