Posted on May 26th, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
On Tuesday, June 2, at the Computers Freedom and Privacy 2009 conference, I’m on a great panel on Internet filtering, and would be delighted to have Info/Law readers come to listen and discuss. CFP is at the Marvin Center at George Washington University; our panel, “Censorship: Can the Internet Still Route Around the Damage?,” is [...]
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Filed under: Filtering, First Amendment, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, ISP, Law School, Media, Scholarship
Posted on May 24th, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
My friend and former Berkman co-worker Aaron Williamson, who is a lawyer at the Software Freedom Law Center, was kind enough to talk with my Internet Law class about how open source works in a cloud computing environment. Aaron was good enough to let me post my notes on his talk – with fervent apologies [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Digital Media, Education & Copyright, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, ISP, Law School, Open Access, Open Standards, Social Networking, Software
Posted on May 15th, 2009 by Tim Armstrong
I’ll be speaking on Monday at the Cincinnati Intellectual Property Law Association‘s first annual seminar on the open source phenomenon (with a current focus on open source software that I hope will begin to abate in future iterations of the seminar). More important, I’ll be avidly listening: there are some dynamite speakers and topics on [...]
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Filed under: Cincinnati, Copyright, Internet & Society, Law School, Open Access, Open Standards, Peer Production, Scholarship, Security
Posted on May 10th, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
Ping (along with traceroute and nslookup) is one of the most basic, useful, and frequently-employed network tools I’m familiar with. In poking around for a coherent explanation of what Ping is, I found this terrific history from Ping’s creator, Michael Muuss. I love it for the same reason that I love The Cathedral and The [...]
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Filed under: Internet & Society, ISP, Open Access, Privacy, Software
Posted on May 6th, 2009 by Tim Armstrong
As UC‘s only Copyright specialist, I field a lot of questions from my faculty colleagues each year involving what they can and can’t do in class (things like, “can I hand out this clipping from today’s paper?”) Usually, my answer is simple: “yes, fair use. That will be $32,500, please.” Twice a year, though, during [...]
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Filed under: Cincinnati, Copyright, Education & Copyright, Law School, Open Access, Scholarship
Posted on May 5th, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
Minnesota’s Department of Public Safety has instructed the state’s ISPs to block access by state residents to a list of gambling sites, claiming authority under the Wire Act (18 U.S.C. 1084). The Department’s theory is that 1) gambling is illegal in Minnesota, and 2) the Wire Act requires common carriers to stop furnishing services to [...]
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Filed under: Court Decisions, Filtering, First Amendment, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, ISP, Minnesota
Posted on May 1st, 2009 by Tim Armstrong
Mark Levy always got to the office before me—or anyone else, for that matter. For most of my ten years in private practice with the D.C.-based global behemoth now known simply as Howrey, Mark co-chaired the Supreme Court and Appellate Litigation Practice Group. (Mark’s co-chair, Jerry Ganzfried, was a fellow Yalie and, also like Mark, [...]
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Posted on May 1st, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
Update: Ben Sheffner has a great post over at Copyrights & Campaigns on this issue. Evidently it wasn’t a DMCA take-down; rather, YouTube’s audio fingerprinting system automatically flagged the work and, following Warner’s settings, removed it. Evidently the poster can fill out an on-line form to protest and, in this case, the video’s been restored. [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Court Decisions, Digital Media, Education & Copyright, First Amendment, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Music, Peer Production, RIAA, Scholarship, Video