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Open Source Licensing - Revisioning the Good
This morning I came across Stacy Cowley's article GPL 3: An Open Source Earthquake?. As a member of OGC Consortium, the group responsible for developing ge…
Copyright and Fair Use
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Hearsayculture.com Lives
At long last, and after repeated mentions on my radio show and podcast, Hearsay Culture, I am pleased to announce that Hearsayculture.com is live. The webpage…
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Kahle v. Gonzales v. Berne
There is one thing about the 9th Circuit’s decision in Kahle v. Gonzales that I could not find any discussion about – namely, the international copyright law im…
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Lessig on Kahle decision
here. Though the Court acknowledged that there had been a change from an opt-in to an opt-out system of copyright, the court held that because Eldred had resol…
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File sharing in Italy: profit or non-profit?
From ALCEI - Electronic Frontiers Italy (www.alcei.org) There has been wide reporting, in Italy and internationally, that an Italian court "ruled not-for-…
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Pam Samuelson is going to fix the Copyright Act
I attended a really fun reception last night at the fancy Hotel Vitale in San Francisco hosted by Harvard Law School's Berkman Center. One of the co-hosts w…
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How public opinion on artistic practices changes
First it was "Rip! Mix! and Burn!" Now it is simply just "Burn!" It is the second time in a few weeks when an artist is caught "red-ha…
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9th Circuit rejects constitutional challenge to copyright laws in Kahle v. Gonzales
Some sad news to report: the 9th Circuit has rejected constitutional challenges to the copyright laws in *Kahle v. Gonzales*. The opinion is here. Sad, yes, b…
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Domain Names and Trademarks
For those of you who are interested in domain names issues I have made this piece available on my SSRN page. It addresses the interface between registration of…
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Pogues Ode to the RIAA
I've been busily working on finishing my new podcast and will have more to say about it very soon... We'll be launching it on the 23rd so stay tuned. I…
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Communications of the ACM article on Patents
The January 2007 issue of Communications of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) has an article entitled “The Patent Holder’s Dilemma: Buy, Sell, or Tr…
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Hearsay Culture Schedule Through Mid-May
I am very pleased to announce the Hearsay Culture schedule through mid-May. Also, I think that I have solved my tech glitches [thanks to Lauren, Kent, Ben and…