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Should the DMCA Have Even Bigger Teeth?
New draft legislation, supported by the Bush Administration and Representative Lamar Smith, would significantly expand the reach of the Digital Millennium Copyr…
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The Controversy over Walt/Mearsheimer
Over the past few weeks, no one who pays any attention to the contemporary dialogues in political science could have escaped hearing about the controversy surro…
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Learning from our ancestors
Jane Goodall was interviewed in the most recent Sierra magazine about her latest work focusing on people, not chimpanzees: "Sierra: What has your many yea…
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California will report names of those testing HIV+
Whenever someone in the USA tests positive for certain diseases with substantial public health impact, information about that person is reported to the appropri…
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Poorly written terms of service agreements #2
In the Internet-enabled era, computer users can update the drivers for their peripherals with very little trouble. Manufacturers commonly provide copies of driv…
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Blog Law
April 21-- Speaking at Law Seminar conference "Blog Law and Blogging for Lawyers" on developments in the area of cyberlaw that bloggers and lawyers de…
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Media Monitoring in Zimbabwe
Imagine a society in which journalists are licensed by the state, credentialed and monitored in a way similar to members of other professional guilds. Assume a…
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A2K @ Yale
For the next three days I will be blogging at Icommons.org on the Access to Knowledge Conference, held at Yale Law School, hosted by the Yale Information Societ…
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A new kind of broadcast flag?
Recently, a U.S. patent application by Philips was published. Philips seeks a patent for an "apparatus and method for preventing switching from a channel d…
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How to Succeed in Punditry
Ezra Klein on the art of being a pundit: "Punditry is a game of incentives, encouragement, luck. You write a hundred articles before striking paydirt with…
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Nuturing the African Commons
icommons Africa is a new project dedicated to Nurturing the African Commons. Africans living in a continent so rich in culture and heritage, often struggle to…
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Tarleton Gillespie
Monday April 17, 2006 12:30-1:30 PM Room 280A Stanford Law School Open to All Lunch Served DRM strategies for technical copy protection regulate the use of con…