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Upcoming User-Generated Content Audio Conference
On March 29, 2007, I'll be one of the speakers for this webaudio conference relating to User-Generated Media issues, offered by Pike & Fisher. Here are…
Copyright and Fair Use
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Super cool video for Monday morning
Thanks to Denise, I was pointed to this amazing video recently. It's the best 4:31 I've spent on line recently.…
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Apple says No to DRM? Maybe, if it only could…
Steve Jobs published on Tuesday this article on Apple’s website. It definitely deserves a comment. Not entirely without connection to inconvenient proceedings i…
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District Court Finds Failure to Demonstrate Circumvention of a Technological Measure in DMCA Claim Involving User Detection Feat
Plaintiff Auto Inspection Services, Inc. (“AIS”) owns the copyright to an automotive inspection program (“AIS’s Program”) that contains a quality control featur…
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Difference between Google Book Project and Open Content Alliance
This is a nice piece that describes the difference between the Google Book Project and the Internet Archive/Open Content Alliance Project to make book texts sea…
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National Day of Action for Open Access: Feb. 15
I received an email announcement from freeculture.org, "a diverse, non-partisan group of students and young people who are working to get their peers invol…
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Apple v Apple: Helter Skelter
Apple (computer) and Apple (records) announced yesterday they had once again (finally?) resolved their trademark dispute, which dated back to the formation of t…
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Turning point in copyright infringement cases
This is the most important thing that has happened on the intellectual property front lately. Former Soviet president Gorbachev asks Microsoft's Bill Gates…
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SXSW - panelizing about Video Mashups
I'm psyched to be speaking on a panel this spring at the South By Southwest Interactive conference. The panel is on Tuesday, March 13, and is entitled Video…
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Shloss hearing
I attended the motion to dismiss hearing in the Shloss v. Estate of Joyce case on Wednesday morning. Here a photo of Professor Shloss and two people from the le…
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Query By Humming: Whistle While You Work
For several years I’ve been following advances in ‘Music Information Retrieval’ (MIR), mostly through a Music IR list. This heavily academic community present…
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Second Life's sense of humor... it's a parody!
This post from the Legal Blog Watch brought a smile to my face. It reports on the wonderful sense of humor of the attorneys over at Second Life. A recent parod…