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Matt Drake 2006
Matt Drake is running for a seat on the SF Board of Supervisors for District 6. His campaign kick off party is next Thursday, May 4 (6 - 9:30 pm) @ a the very c…
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Are photo licensors exempt from the right of publicity?
[Yes: Three posts in one day. This is a record for me. But please read on...] Here's a short story, with a question at the end. I'd welcome any and all…
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California Bar Association program on ODR
I just got off a webinar presented by the California Bar Association entitled: "Online Dispute Resolution: What It Is, How It's Done, and How to Craft…
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Upcoming events...
I'm attending the OnHollywood conference next week in LA. Very psyched. Looking forward to connecting about digital media and entertainment with the folks d…
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RSS-"hijacking" incident resolved (sort of)
A couple months ago, my client, animal protection activist Erik Marcus, and the proprietor of "Podkeyword.com", George Lambert, quietly settled their…
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Should the DMCA Have Even Bigger Teeth?
New draft legislation, supported by the Bush Administration and Representative Lamar Smith, would significantly expand the reach of the Digital Millennium Copyr…
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The Controversy over Walt/Mearsheimer
Over the past few weeks, no one who pays any attention to the contemporary dialogues in political science could have escaped hearing about the controversy surro…
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Learning from our ancestors
Jane Goodall was interviewed in the most recent Sierra magazine about her latest work focusing on people, not chimpanzees: "Sierra: What has your many yea…
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California will report names of those testing HIV+
Whenever someone in the USA tests positive for certain diseases with substantial public health impact, information about that person is reported to the appropri…
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Poorly written terms of service agreements #2
In the Internet-enabled era, computer users can update the drivers for their peripherals with very little trouble. Manufacturers commonly provide copies of driv…
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Blog Law
April 21-- Speaking at Law Seminar conference "Blog Law and Blogging for Lawyers" on developments in the area of cyberlaw that bloggers and lawyers de…
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Media Monitoring in Zimbabwe
Imagine a society in which journalists are licensed by the state, credentialed and monitored in a way similar to members of other professional guilds. Assume a…