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You exported what?!
Friedman has an op-ed in the NY Times today about what he calls the 3rd wave of globalization, characterized by decentralization of services--re: exporting jobs…
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House Passes CARP Reform Bill
On Wednesday the U.S. House passed H.R. 1417, legislation to replace the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel system with a more affordable and efficient system…
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Dueling Troll Makers Bury The Hatchet
Dam Things From Denmark and Russ have settled a long-running copyright dispute over restored copyrights in troll dolls. Here's the press release via Yahoo!…
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Half Dead CARP
The U.S. House passed H.R. 1417, the CARP Reform bill, yesterday. 406 to zero. There is no companion bill in the Senate, but no doubt there soon will be. The…
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Clinic Files Comments with the USSC
The Clinic filed comments on behalf of the NACDL and the EFF on the CAN-SPAM Act on March 1. The comments argue that the Commission’s proposed guidelines and s…
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The Ethics of P2P Filesharing
The Ethics of P2P Filesharing with SLS Professors Lessig and Rhodes on Monday 3/8.…
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Travel, meet interesting people and sue them...
Well, I spend some time these days looking for my next job, and a search for "copyright" on lawjobs.com brought up this one.. Entertainment Trade Ass…
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All rights reserved in Birth Control for Flatworms
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the UC Santa Barbara is donating a patent on a treatment for schistosomiasis to the Institute for One World Healt…
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control v compensation
近頃、米国のデジタル著作権の分野で、相次いで、著作権の強制許諾制度的な提案がなされています。Neil Netanelの論文、Terry Fisherのもうすぐ出版予定の本「Promise To Keep」の第6章、Raymond Ku、Jessica Litmanのドラフトなど、皆それぞれ提唱する制度の範囲や条件が多少…
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Editing Evil?
The Treasury Department sent out several letters interpreting the editing of Persian poetry as "aiding and abetting the enemy." Yes, really. Apparentl…
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Hacking Democracy?
March 2nd is Super Tuesday in ten states including California... and it's also a major test of electronic voting technology. Diebold Election Systems, the c…
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Return of the King?
Nat Hentoff surmises the situation in Guantanamo Bay and calls it "monarchical." From Ghost in the Machine.…