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Microsoft's EU Antitrust Case: A Clearly Bad Precedent
This week, Microsoft dropped its appeal in the European version of the antitrust action against the company that has been proceeding for about ten years. The E…
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Surveillance and Amnesty in Congress
In this week's Circuit Court column, I write about the legislative battle over changing our communications eavesdropping laws and a related issue of giving…
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The Modern Rabbit Hole
Virginia Heffernan in the NYT Magazine over the weekend: "Movies and music engage and enlighten me, but they don’t steal my mind... For that I increasingly…
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Copyright Law and the Information Cost Theory
Intellectual Property as Property: Delineating Entitlements in Information, authored by Prof. Henry Smith was published last summer in the Yale Law Journal. It…
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Why, Diddy? Why?
Music sampling has suffered a strange fate at the hands of copyright law. It should fare well under the fair use doctrine. In general, it's very transform…
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Aguiar v. Webb: Documentary Film Program Defends Filmmaker's Fair Use and Free Speech Rights
Plaintiff William V. Aguiar III, sued documentary filmmaker Floyd Webb, alleging that Webb's promotional website and film trailer for his upcoming film infr…
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Hot Flash
Using a combination of archival, interview and new concert footage as well as photographs, news clippings, and contemporary critical analysis, HOT FLASH tells t…
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Blog Action Day - Talking about the Environment
So I'm 24 hours late, but yesterday was Blog Action Day, which focused on an effort to get people talking about the environment. It's an interesting co…
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Dignity, not democracy
David Ignatius in today's Post: "We talk about democracy and human rights. Iraqis talk about justice and honor." That comment from Lt. Col. David…
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Reading IP Patents Like Tea Leaves
I've been reading through a study of Google's patents prepared by Stephen Arnold entitled Google Version 2.0: The Predator. Mr. Arnold displays a foren…
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Misinterpreting email communications
Daniel Goleman in the 10/7 NYT: "We were having an e-mail exchange about some crucial detail involving publishing rights, which I thought was being worked…
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Disputes growing in virtual worlds
The Business Shrink, October 10th, 2007: "With virtual world’s forming into the next big thing on the horizon, the real world is starting to play catch up…