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Saying Funny Things to the Stars
"Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars." "Oo!" --J.M. Ba…
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WIPO Comes to Silicon Valley
High Tech IP Issues in a Global Marketplace Hosted by Stanford Law School, May 17 and 18, 2004 The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the Sta…
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Motion from across the Ocean
At long last, the Great Ormond Street Hospital has responded to Emily Somma's complaint for declaratory judgment, filing today its Motion to Dismiss. GOSH a…
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Economics Nobel Pool
Every year, a group of economists bet on who will be most likely to receive the Nobel award in economics. Can anyone direct me to the current betting? (Neithe…
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Legislating "In-sourcing"
23 state legislatures in the U.S. are currently considering proposals to ban outsourcing, according to the National Foundation for American Policy. There are a…
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How to Avert Terror
From Fred Kaplan in Slate: Clarke has argued that the Clinton administration thwarted al-Qaida's plot to set off bombs at Los Angeles airport on the eve of…
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13 Cupholders in Honda Odyssey
I begin with a mundane entry... A NYT story today about a mini-van, that gently raises issues of gay marriage. The banality of the story is its most interesti…
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domain name redirection
April 9, 2004: Quoted in St Petersberg Times on whether the Sun City Chamber of Commerce can sue because someone registered the .com iteration and redirected it…
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faculty lunch
Stanford Law Schoolでは、毎週水曜日のお昼に、Faculty Lunchといって、大学の教授や講師が集まり、それぞれ、現在取り組んでいるプロジェクトなり論文なりを発表し議論を交し合うための集まりがあります。 時間は1時間ほど。あらかじめ議論する論文のドラフトが配られており、参加する教授たちはそれに目…
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Privacy PEBKAC
Why are people so upset about Google's plan to offer free e-mail with the catch that computers monitor your e-mail and target your ads? As long as it is t…
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Federal Judge Reinstates Injunction Against DVD-Copying Software Manufacturer 321 Studios
On March 15, 2004, Judge Richard Owen of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York reinstated a preliminary injunction against software manu…
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Colorado District Court Allows Challenge to Re-Copyrighting Public Domain Work Under § 514 of the URAA to Proceed
Plaintiffs, consisting of performers and business owners who use public domain works in their professions, filed an amended complaint in April 2004 seeking decl…