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Second Life's sense of humor... it's a parody!
This post from the Legal Blog Watch brought a smile to my face. It reports on the wonderful sense of humor of the attorneys over at Second Life. A recent parod…
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Open Source Licensing - Revisioning the Good
This morning I came across Stacy Cowley's article GPL 3: An Open Source Earthquake?. As a member of OGC Consortium, the group responsible for developing ge…
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Hearsayculture.com Lives
At long last, and after repeated mentions on my radio show and podcast, Hearsay Culture, I am pleased to announce that Hearsayculture.com is live. The webpage…
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Kahle v. Gonzales v. Berne
There is one thing about the 9th Circuit’s decision in Kahle v. Gonzales that I could not find any discussion about – namely, the international copyright law im…
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Lessig on Kahle decision
here. Though the Court acknowledged that there had been a change from an opt-in to an opt-out system of copyright, the court held that because Eldred had resol…
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File sharing in Italy: profit or non-profit?
From ALCEI - Electronic Frontiers Italy (www.alcei.org) There has been wide reporting, in Italy and internationally, that an Italian court "ruled not-for-…
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Take the Podcast Survey and pass it along to your community
I was contacted by researchers from the International University Bremen in Germany about a podcast study they are conducting (yes, the survey is in English!) .…
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Pam Samuelson is going to fix the Copyright Act
I attended a really fun reception last night at the fancy Hotel Vitale in San Francisco hosted by Harvard Law School's Berkman Center. One of the co-hosts w…
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that was random
At the end of our last panel, an older gentleman walked into the room, introduced himself as a Berkeley graduate, and proceeded to engage in an entirely off-top…
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nice quote
There's always another perspective we have to consider in the privacy debate. Matt Lamberti, Asst. U.S. Attorney, just noted that "when you talk about…
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some themes today
For all of the high-level discussion of fourth amendment doctrine today, a couple of more concrete themes have struck me as particularly salient today: First,…
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RFID demonstration - Wow!
Nicky Ozer's panel has been the most interactive panel so far. Nicky played a YouTube video of news coverage of the RFID reader that was hacked in the Calif…