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(Im)Perfect Enforcement
Prohibition wasn’t working. President Hoover assembled the Wickersham Commission to investigate why. The Commission concluded that despite an historic enforce…
Copyright and Fair Use
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Paul Allen: Patent Troll or Patent Savior?
I don’t have a great deal to add to coverage of last week’s big patent story, which concerned the filing of a complaint by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen ag…
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Widespread Taxing Of Bloggers Could Stifle Internet Speech, Internet Speech Advocates Say
Sarah Hinchcliff Pearson, residential fellow at the Center for Internet and Society, is quoted on potentially requiring bloggers to buy a business license if th…
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SkyRiver v. OCLC Ohio College Library Center (CA ND 10-3305) - A case that was waiting to happen.
In an earlier technical life I was in the 'Library Automation' biz, where I designed and built library information systems and public online catalogs, a…
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What the "jailbreak" exemption says about the future of copyright law
I dashed off a piece for CNET today on the Copyright Office’s cell phone “jailbreaking” rulemaking earlier this week. Though there has already been extensive c…
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Library of Congress: Fair Use Lets You Jailbreak Your iPhone
The Library of Congress dropped a bombshell today in the form of new exemptions from the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions. The biggest splash of all wa…
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After the cyberlaw deluge, another deluge
If I ever had any hope of “keeping up” with developments in the regulation of information technology—or even the nine specific areas I explored in The Laws of…
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Law & Order: Sheet Music Task Force
A few weeks ago, composer Jason Robert Brown blogged about his campaign against online sheet music traders, including an interesting email exchange between him…
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Justice Stevens and the IP Windmills: Bilski and a Last Tilt
I dashed off a quick analysis of the Bilski decision for CNET yesterday (see “Supreme Court Hedges on Business Method Patents”), a follow-up to a piece I…
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Viacom v Google: Who is the Least Cost Avoider?
I’m late to the party, but I wanted to say a few things about the District Court’s decision in the Viacom v. YouTube case this week and. This will be a four-…
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ACTA Communique: “ACTA is the predictably deficient product of a deeply flawed process”
Representatives from the US, the EU, Japan, South Korea, Canada, Mexico, Australia, and New Zealand will convene this Monday in Lucerne for the Ninth round of A…
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10th Circuit Reverses Golan: URAA Passes First Amendment Test
Last year, we won an important victory for our clients when the District Court held the URAA violates the First Amendment insofar as it suppresses parties'…