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A great reminder of why fair use matters
Coming to the San Francisco Independent Film Festival is the new film Value Added Cinema; a flick constructed entirely by editing together egregious product-pla…
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Counting on Democracy
The Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society is pleased to present a screening of scenes from “Counting on Democracy,” a new documentary by Stanford…
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Real-world consequences of MMOG investigations
A few days ago, I sort of glibly linked to an article about a teenager ("Evangeline") who was running a cyber-brothel in The Sims Online. Well, the…
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NPS
January 2004: Naval Postgraduate School, CISR Invited Lecture Series…
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How antiprivacy is Dean's smartcard?
I like Howard Dean. Don't know if I'll vote for him or not, but I admire his willingness to go out there and get angry. But until a few months ago, I&#…
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democratic discourse
John Palfrey paid me a nice comment on his blog-- but it got me thinking. He, and others, write their thoughts about digital democracy daily on their blogs. I…
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the end of the wireless sanctuary
This NYT article explains how millions of wireless users are signing contracts where the fine print allows providers to add them to a phone directory. I like t…
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Copy Left
Excellent summary- style piece in the NYT: The Tyranny of Copyright. The type of piece you can give your mother to read so she understands why you are not '…
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FOIA's documents
You can find the documents that NASA turned over to EPIC, as well as other information about the Northwest discosures of Passenger data at the EPIC website.…
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Op-Ed Columnist: Democracy at Risk
On January 23, 2004, Paul Krugman wrote in a column for the NYT: Internal e-mail from Diebold, the most prominent maker of electronic voting machines (though n…
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Flexibility in Sentencing?
From the Houston Chronicle we learn that Judge Larry Standly ordered a man convicted of slapping his wife to take a yoga class as a condition of his probation,…
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Court Denies Ampex's Motion, Orders More Briefing. Hearing Set for February 3, 2004
The Court issued this order denying Ampex's motion to strike the costs awarded by the Court of Appeal. The Court ordered supplemental briefing on the issue…