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Amazon Marketplace: Liability in the Cloud?
I don’t usually blog “personal” stories, but this one is irresistible. It raises disturbing questions at the border of digital and physical life, and legal pro…
Copyright and Fair Use
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Facebook Gripes Protected By Free Speech, Ruling Says
Ryan Calo, a residential fellow at the Center for Internet & Society, is quoted on a student's constitutional right to criticize her teacher on Facebook…
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Google Books Redux: The DoJ Tones Down its Objections
I write today on CNET (see "Gripes over Google Books go Technical") about the Department of Justice's filing last week in the Google Books case.…
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Paper on Information as Intellectual Property Subject Matter
I’ve just posted my paper on information as IP subject matter. The paper addresses some basic questions about the idea of property-like rights in “information”…
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Name Your Price? Walker Digital places IP portfolio for licensing/purchase.
This morning I received an email from ICAP - Ocean Tomo informing that they are the exclusive broker for about 700 patents in the Walker Digital portfolio. Pre…
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Two Smoking Guns and a Cold Case
The copyright war just isn’t dramatic enough to warrant a good novel, let alone a big movie deal. Consider a few recent stories from the on-going battle betwee…
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Cleantech IP Thoughts
Last week a stream of cleantech related events emerged onto my radar is several ways. First, Bruce Abramson simply but profoundly commented on Facebook that he…
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What the Comcast/NBC merger is really about
My op-ed today in The Hill (see “The Winter of Our Content,”) argues against those who want to derail the merger of Comcast and NBC Universal. I don’t know eno…
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Isn't It Ironic? The Fourth Estate's Assault on Free Speech
It’s nothing new for media organizations to employ lofty rhetoric about the role of the press in democracy to advocate special legal privileges. Likewise, it’s…
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SOC: Tempest in the Back of Your TV
I've spent all day on what I thought would be a short blog post. The MPAA wants a waiver from the FCC rule that prohibits disabling analog interfaces on the…
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Search Schizophrenia And The Doomsday Machine That Just Won't Start
Microsoft is mad because Google is trying to finalize a deal that would give it a monopoly over the right to make digital copies of orphan books. But Microsoft…
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An Unpopular View of Google Books
I’m starting to feel like the only person who thinks the Google Books settlement with authors and publishers is a good deal. One voice that seems not to be hear…