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THANKS!

Thanks to everyone who attended the "Happy Podding Hour" last night at Varnish. It was great to catch up with many of you and hear what you're up…

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A Place to Gamble in Australia

If you are planning a summer trip to the Southern Hemisphere and are looking for poker machines that should be in place for a while, may I suggest Hobsons Bay,…

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SIRA Bill

The Section 115 Reform Act of 2006 (SIRA) is a blanket license without an opt-out. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/06/0434242. And here's a s…

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fair use challenge

CIS's fair use project just filed a new fair use case yesterday dealing with the James Joyce estate. (Here's the complaint, here's Lessig's post…

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Boyle on Constitutional Circumvention

[from Random-bits] James Boyle in FT on WIPO Treaty:  Constitutional     circumvention http://news.ft.com/cms/s/fa07af4a-fadc-11da-b4d0-0000779e2340.html Tues…

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schloss

The CIS Fair Use Project filed a copyright suit today (.pdf) on behalf of English Professor Carol Shloss against the Estate of James Joyce. more here.…

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Copyright @ VloggerCon

This session on IP rights is a leaving me with some things that I think need to be addressed. Lisa Rein is frustrated, and thankfully, she clarified a few thing…