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Sunshine for the Virtual Town Hall
Tom Grubisich, in the May 14th Washington Post: "These days we want "transparency" in all institutions, even private ones. There's one massiv…
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Study Finds High-testosterone People Feel Rewarded By Others' Anger
Science Daily, reporting on a U-Michigan press release, May 12: "Most people don't appreciate an angry look, but a new University of Michigan psycholog…
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Take Down Stay Down
After a successful trial MySpace has announced its novel “Take Down Stay Down” campaign. The idea is that upon reception of notice about unauthorized upload of…
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Internet Radio Bills Supported by College Broadcasters
While with CIS, Fellow Elizabeth Rader (now with Akin Gump) did a lot of excellent work for college broadcasters facing prohibitively high fees and complex pape…
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Victory for BT!
After a very long saga, BT has been vindicated in his fight againt New York Musician Ralph Vargas and Vargas's producer, Bland-Ricky Roberts, who together a…
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Wikis in law
Robert Ambroji has a nice article in Law.com's In-House Counsel section on wikis and their use in the legal profession. He highlights a number of law-relate…
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Fair Use Project Profiled on NPR's Morning Edition
NPR's Morning Edition ran an extended profile of the Fair Use Project and some of the clients it has worked with. Listen to it here.…
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Universal Music's Second Strike
Last year, Universal Music threatened Javier Prato with legal action for using "I Will Survive" in a humorous video posted on YouTube. It retreated a…
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Spend an hour in a virtual world this week
Join us for a conversation at State of play academy. All you need to do is: (1) download the software. (only works on PC or PC emulator-- like Mac running boot…
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TWiL on ecommerce
The latest episode of Ian Ballon as a guest and discusses the latest in electronic commerce or "Internet Law". The episode starts off with a brief dis…
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Copyright in derivative works vs. collective works
About a week ago the Ninth Circuit issued this ruling that analyzes the difference between a collective work and a derivative work in a copyright infringement c…
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Exciting Interational Online Competition -- Win an All-Expense Paid Trip to Hong Kong!
I am one of the organizers for the InternetBar.org competition designed to encourage ideas and interaction around the problem of creating a trusted online envir…