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Opening Brief Filed
Today we filed the appellant's opening brief in the Ninth Circuit. The brief argues that, starting with the 1976 Copyright Act, Congress changed the fundam…
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Jailed for a song
This is the ad for a new IPac campaign... Read more about it here and about IPac here.…
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2nd term song by Jibjab
Just in time for the inauguration Jibjab is at it again with a good little jingle about the next 4 years...…
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Yiddish with Dick and Jane under fire
I just learned of what sounds to be an interesting lawsuit filed in Los Angeles by the owners of the Dick and Jane copyright, Pearson Education. Evidently, Pe…
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New Year, New Proposals
If you're checking-in to read this blog, thank you for hanging in with me. I went away on a long trip over the holidays to India (among other places). Thi…
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Talk on trusted computing
On March 28, 2005, I will give a talk on the legal and policy implications of trusted computing at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. M…
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Internet Radio case decided
The U.S. Court of Appeals for DC upheld the rates that the librarian set, and found the non-participant plaintiffs had no standing.…
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We lose.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for DC upheld the rates that the librarian set, and found the non-participant plaintiffs had no standing.…
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DRM book
For the German readers: my doctoral dissertation on DRM, which was published in 2002, has been out of print for some time. But now the publisher has agreed that…
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Current Main Writing Projects
Book-length projects The Making of the Great War Generation (in progress) A comparative biography reexamining the meaning of generation, with particular attenti…
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10 Years Not Enough for Torturer
Given the physical and sexual abuses heaped on Iraqi prisoners by Charles Graner, I do not believe that 10 years imprisonment is long enough. If a military sen…
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Superior Orders?
One aspect of the Graner case puzzles me. Graner's defense to the court martial was that he was ordered to soften up the prisoners. But, even if he was or…