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Google Conquers Radio
In its ongoing quest to conquer the world, Google announced yesterday that it would spend up to $1.2 bn to buy a radio advertising sales unit (the final price w…
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Towards an Economic Framework for Network Neutrality
CIS Fellow Barbara van Schewick's paper "Towards an Economic Framework for Network Neutrality" is available on ssrn. The Abstract: Over the past…
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News from the German CIS Fellows
German CIS Fellows Stefan Bechtold, Christoph Engemann, Dan Wielsch and Barbara van Schewick will be presenting a panel on "Democratization of IT Infrastru…
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Using the Courts as Your Sales Team for Your Business Method Patents
So as I was working on my article on business method patents (spoiler: they're bad), I was inserting a brief discussion of the recent Ex rel Lundgren decisi…
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Martin Luther King Day
Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963. Where are the American heroes of today? From his speech "The…
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Peer to Patent Project
CIS will host The Peer to Patent Project this semester for a meeting on HCI and the Design of Community Patent.…
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Problems with Cell Phone Locking?
Submit your story. We are looking for stories about how cell phone locking is affecting consumers and the public interest. Do you have a story about how lockin…
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Gold Plated Patents
Mark Lemely, Doug Lichtman, and Bhaven Sampat have a sensible proposal in the winter issue of Regulation. They start with the well-known fact that most patents…
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CIS is Hiring!!
SUMMER INTERNSHIP POSITION WITH STANFORD’S CENTER FOR INTERNET AND SOCIETY The Center for Internet and Society (CIS) at Stanford Law School is hiring a Summer…
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More Microsoft Censorship in China
As usual, Rebecca MacKinnon has the best coverage of the current state of censorship in China. She is a must read. Her latest post is on MSNSpaces censorship…
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David Letterman Debates Bill O'Reilly
Video (click big show highlight). My Favorite line from Letterman: I am not smart enough to debate you point by point on this, but I have a feeling about 60% o…
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CIS is talking
Larry Lessig's column in the Financial Times: "Creatives face a closed Net," Jennifer Granick's column in Wired News: Go Back to Afghanistan,…