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Recut, Reframe, Recycle
Pat Aufderheide, Peter Jaszi and their colleagues at American University's Center for Social Media have released a fantastic new study on creativity on the…
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District Court Strikes Down Patriot Act’s Amendments to Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
Author: Scott M. Noveck I. The 2001 FISA Amendments For purposes of criminal surveillance, the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on unreasonable searches and sei…
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Surveillance and Amnesty in Congress
In this week's Circuit Court column, I write about the legislative battle over changing our communications eavesdropping laws and a related issue of giving…
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Why, Diddy? Why?
Music sampling has suffered a strange fate at the hands of copyright law. It should fare well under the fair use doctrine. In general, it's very transform…
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Reporters' Shield Law Overdue but Underpowered
Proposed Reporters' Shield Law Overdue but Underpowered This week's Circuit Court column is about the proposed federal reporters' shield law that j…
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Network Neutrality
Just posted my newest episode of Rules for the Revolution which discusses Network Neutrality with Alex Curtis of Public Knowledge. Please give it a listen, and…
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Creative Commons, Common Sense, and Nonsense
Over the last 3-4 years many people have been speculating about how U.S. courts would interpret the Creative Commons (CC) licenses in litigation concerning the…
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Is That Big Brother In Your Pocket?
Did you know the government can track your movements by your cell phone? And while courts are struggling to define whether agents need probable cause to follow…
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Privacy concepts: US v. EU
When it comes to Privacy Law, Europe and the U.S. are not on the same page. What is the problem? This is not the place to give an extensive answer, but here i…
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Ethics & Blawgs
I'm now at the ABA Lawyer's Professional Liability fall conference where I have been asked to speak about legal ethics and law firm blogs. I presented…
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The Pointless Debate over Privacy
In my current column in CIO Insight, href="http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1540,2159182,00.asp">“The Pointless Privacy Debate” I write that t…
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The Jihad Online
I'm in the process of completing an article that discusses whether and to what extent Muslim-Americans have altered their use of the Internet, after the 9/1…