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Facebook and the Phone Companies Try to Lock You In
What does Facebook have in common with wireless phone companies like AT&T? Both companies try to lock customers in, even if we'd rather take our busines…
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Stamps, Sculpture and Free Expression
We filed an amicus brief today in Gaylord v. U.S., a potentially important but little-noticed fair use case on appeal in the Federal Circuit. We filed it on beh…
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Regulating Search Engine Optimization
From an anonymous executive, today on Tech Crunch: "Imagine, if you will, that the entire Internet is contained within a single continent. That continent…
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Born into a point of view
Peggy Noonan in the WSJ: "Sarah Palin's resignation gives Republicans a new opportunity to see her plain—to review the bidding, see her strengths, ackn…
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Privacy and the Democratization of Fame
If privacy and the ability to preserve your reputation are essential components to personal freedom, then Michael Jackson was imprisoned. As the media hysteria…
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Self-Regulatory Principles For Online Behavioral Advertising: "Or" vs. "And"
I’ve blogged before about the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt out for behavioral targeting, noting that there is no guarantee that participants will stop t…
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Facebook's future: "Wall" or nothing?
In “The Great Wall of Facebook,” Wired’s Fred Vogelstein contends that Facebook and Google are approaching a “full-blown battle over the future of the Internet.…
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Coming Through the Rye No More
Read more here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_re_us/us_books_salinger http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/books/02salinger.html?partner=rss&emc=rs…
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Technically Women
Inspired by a blog post last year by ZDNet's Dennis Howlett, a group of prominent women in technology have formed a new blog called Technically Women. Techn…
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New leadership at Creative Commons South Africa
Creative Commons South Africa (CC Za) is now hosted at Intellectual Property Law Research, at the Department of Private Law at the University of Cape Town Law S…
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Supreme Court Denies Cablevision Review
Today the Supreme Court reportedly resolved not to hear the appeal on the Second Circuit’s Cablevision decision. This denial comes shortly after the Court has r…
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Debunking evo psych
Sharon Begley in Newsweek: "These have not been easy days for evolutionary psychology. For years the loudest critics have been social scientists, feminists…