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VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE!

Today is election day in California. Please go out and VOTE! If you're not sure who/what to vote for, review these resources: Jennifer Granick's trusty…

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SCOTUS, Asteroids, and Breakout

You all probably know this, but someone alerted me to an interesting footnote of the SCOTUS EFF postion. >This theory appears to conflate two quite differen…

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John McCain at the New School

I’m sure I wasn’t the only person in the world who noted the irony in the recent furor over John McCain’s address at the New School graduation.  McCain delivers…

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ODR presentation at Hamline University

David Larson invited me to do a short presentation to his class at Hamline this afternoon, and it was fun to chat.  We did the video over MSN Messenger, which k…

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Be GOOD.

I have to write again about the group of good people over at GOOD MAGAZINE. I just read their fancy press kit. Not only does it make me want the magazine, it ma…

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Fair blurring

This semester I gave the 33 students in my legal research and writing course (1Ls at Golden Gate U.) a fair use questions for their main project. They needed to…

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"Steal This Music"

I had the pleasure of speaking at the Association for Recorded Sound Collections' conference in Seattle on Friday.  In my discussion, about the state of cop…

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One movie we all must support

An Inconvenient Truth.  This film is going to change the way we talk and think about the climate crisis and global warming. Please support it by going to see it…

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Last night at the Santa Clara County Bar

I gave a talk yesterday evening at a Santa Clara County Bar Association CLE on some of the work I've been doing on podcasting and the law. I have to thank N…

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Net Neutrality.

Lessig's blog yesterday points to this public service announcement provided by Public Knowledge on the important issue of Network Neutrality. It's a sho…