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A2K @ Yale
For the next three days I will be blogging at Icommons.org on the Access to Knowledge Conference, held at Yale Law School, hosted by the Yale Information Societ…
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A new kind of broadcast flag?
Recently, a U.S. patent application by Philips was published. Philips seeks a patent for an "apparatus and method for preventing switching from a channel d…
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How to Succeed in Punditry
Ezra Klein on the art of being a pundit: "Punditry is a game of incentives, encouragement, luck. You write a hundred articles before striking paydirt with…
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Nuturing the African Commons
icommons Africa is a new project dedicated to Nurturing the African Commons. Africans living in a continent so rich in culture and heritage, often struggle to…
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Tarleton Gillespie
Monday April 17, 2006 12:30-1:30 PM Room 280A Stanford Law School Open to All Lunch Served DRM strategies for technical copy protection regulate the use of con…
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Help needed: History of 'Share'
I am working on a small genealogy of sharing in the context of computers. Surprisingly there is very little literature on this phenomenon. The word 'share&#…
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Poorly written terms of service agreements
I recently created an American Airlines frequent flyer account online. Here is one of the oddest parts of the Terms of Service agreement displayed when you open…
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The Empirical Impact of Filesharing
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) recently released a study suggesting that illegal downloading cost the British music industry 1.8 billion pounds over th…
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Assault on the privacy of your harddrive
Microsoft recently 'helped' Oklahoma craft a spyware protection act. They conveniently wrote in broad exceptions to make sure they and other content and…
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Cyberlaw Clinic Fights Inadequate FOIA Response
Student Megan Adams drafted and filed this complaint alleging that the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection violated the Freedom of Information Act by failin…
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Complaint Filed
Student Megan Adams drafted and filed this complaint alleging that CBP failed to comply with the FOIA by failing to conduct an adequate search and wrongfully wi…
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Boyle-esque puzzle
Okay, y'all have already thought of this, but it just came to me: What would happen if we passed a law that said it was illegal to have been convicted of a…