Posted on July 25th, 2007 by William McGeveran
In the last few days I’ve been at two gigs involving teaching about law to non-lawyers. It is an eye-opening and highly recommended experience. Last week I was on the faculty of the annual Summer Doctoral Programme sponsored by the Oxford Internet Institute and this year hosted in the U.S. by the Berkman Center at [...]
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Filed under: Anonymity, Berkman, Copyright, international, Internet & Society, Law School, Privacy, Scholarship
Posted on July 17th, 2007 by William McGeveran
Genarlow Wilson, you may recall, is the young man sentenced to a 10-year mandatory sentence in Georgia for occurrences at a wild hotel room New Year’s Eve party with other high schoolers when he was 17 years old. He was acquitted of raping a 17-year-old girl who said that she was intoxicated and that her [...]
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Posted on July 10th, 2007 by William McGeveran
Larry Solum takes an interesting continuing cross-blog discussion of foxes and hedgehogs started by Belle Lettre in a new direction by pointing out, politely, that the fox/hedgehog imagery is being used incorrectly. Go read Larry’s explanation, and then be sure to stay around for his delightful integration of the refined definition back into the discussion.It [...]
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Posted on July 10th, 2007 by William McGeveran
Given my interest in Info/law and in British politics, I cannot ignore this post from Bill Patry. David Cameron, the Leader of Britain’s Tory Party, delivered a speech to the annual meeting of the UK recording industry trade group last week in which he committed his party to a 20-year extension of the copyright term [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Digital Media, Media, Music, RIAA, Voting
Posted on July 3rd, 2007 by William McGeveran
[Cross-posted at Concurring Opinions] This morning, vindication! When a long New York Times investigative piece says exactly what you have been saying for a long time, it feels very good. So it is with this morning’s thumbsucker [reg/$$ req'd] about the ridiculous overzealousness and misunderstanding of HIPAA by health care professionals. HIPAA is the Clinton-era [...]
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Filed under: Health Law, Intermediaries, Media, Privacy
Posted on July 2nd, 2007 by William McGeveran
[Cross-posted at Concurring Opinions.] Brian Leiter notes this news story about a South Korean law which has just taken effect, requiring large web sites to obtain real names and the equivalent of Social Security numbers from everyone who posts content. He compares this approach to that taken in the US where, he says, “there exist [...]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2007 by William McGeveran
I will be guest-blogging over at Concurring Opinions, a really great law-professor blog on a wide range of topics, for the month of July. I will continue to cross-post most of my entries here too — at least those relevant to Info/Law — but I invite our readers to check out Concurring Opinions too. The [...]
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