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Tabloids and Broadsheets

A journalism group released a study showing that tabloid format papers -- the San Francisco Bay Guardian is tabloid shaped, as opposed to the broadsheet publish…

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Austrias Citizens E-ified

Austria has finished to issue its citizens the 'ecard' and now is the first country worldwide where the whole population is equipped with a government a…

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Mediation without shuttle diplomacy

As an IP lawyer, I've participated in several mediations to resolve disputes that are being litigated. The parties are usually greeted by a settlement judge…

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DRM and Security

I don't usually have that much patience for discussions about how terrible the big media companies are and how they're going to destroy fair use, creati…

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Rancor in Scarborough Country

After a recent contentious panel with Christopher Hitchens that dissolved into an embarrassing shouting match, Joe Scarborough delivered a little eplilogue apol…

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First Draft of Materials Almost Ready

So I've been fairly quiet here, but I finally have something fun to talk about now. One of my PhD students, Shelley Henson, has been working on a first set…

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Wikipedia raises its bar

Wikipedia, the world's free, user-made encyclopedia, just announced that it will require people who make new entries to register before doing so.  The gener…

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Christoph Engemann (2005)

The Citoyen of Electronic Government with Christoph Engemann CIS Fellow Monday December 5, 2005 12:30-1:30 PM Room 280A Stanford Law School Open to All Lunch…

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Which Code is Law?

Today North Carolinas State Board of Elections has included Diebold to the list of recommended manufactures of voting maschines. This ruling comes despite the f…