Posted on February 29th, 2012 by Derek Bambauer
If you Google “Santorum,” you’ll find that two of the top three search results take an unusual angle on the Republican candidate, thanks to sex columnist Dan Savage. (I very nearly used “Santorum” as a Google example in class last semester, and only just thought better of it.) Santorum’s supporters want Google to push the, [...]
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Filed under: Cognitive Decisionmaking, First Amendment, Google, Impersonation, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Politics, Search Engines, Voting
Posted on February 27th, 2012 by Derek Bambauer
Lifehacker‘s Adam Dachis has a great article on how users can deal with a world in which they infringe copyright constantly, both deliberately and inadvertently. (Disclaimer alert: I talked with Adam about the piece.) It’s a practical guide to a strict liability regime – no intent / knowledge requirement for direct infringement – that operates [...]
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Filed under: Anonymity, Apple, Computer crime, Copyright, Digital Media, Education & Copyright, Encryption, First Amendment, Google, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Music, Politics, RIAA, Search Engines, Security, Software
Posted on February 22nd, 2012 by Derek Bambauer
Ever-brilliant Web comic The Oatmeal has a great piece about piracy and its alternatives. (The language at the end is a bit much, but it is the character’s evil Jiminy Cricket talking.) It mirrors my opinion about Major League Baseball’s unwillingness to offer any Internet access to the postseason, which is hard on those of [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Digital Media, Education & Copyright, Filtering, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Open Access, Politics, RIAA
Posted on February 21st, 2012 by Derek Bambauer
(This post is based on a talk I gave at the Seton Hall Legislative Journal’s symposium on Bullying and the Social Media Generation. Many thanks to Frank Pasquale, Marisa Hourdajian, and Michelle Newton for the invitation, and to Jane Yakowitz and Will Creeley for a great discussion!) Introduction New Jersey enacted the Anti-Bullying Bill of [...]
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Filed under: Anonymity, Computer crime, First Amendment, Impersonation, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Law School, Media, Privacy, Scholarship, Security, Social Networking
Posted on February 20th, 2012 by Derek Bambauer
The American Bar Association is kicking off its 2012 tech show with an address by… Ben Stein. Yes, who better to celebrate the march of technological progress and innovation than a leading defender of intelligent design? Who better to celebrate rigorous intellectual discourse than a man who misquotes Darwin and fakes speeches to college audiences? [...]
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Filed under: Intermediaries, Law School, Media, Politics, Scholarship
Posted on February 17th, 2012 by Derek Bambauer
On RocketLawyer’s Legally Easy podcast, I talk with Charley Moore and Eva Arevuo about the EU’s proposed “right to be forgotten” and privacy as censorship. I was inspired by Jeff Rosen and Jane Yakowitz‘s critiques of the approach, which actually appears to be a “right to lie effectively.” If you can disappear unflattering – and [...]
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Filed under: Anonymity, Blogging, Digital Media, Filtering, First Amendment, Intermediaries, international, Internet & Society, Media, Open Access, Politics, Privacy, Search Engines
Posted on February 15th, 2012 by Derek Bambauer
The indefatigable Dave Levine and I talk about Orwell’s Armchair, soft censorship, the Megaupload seizure, and the challenges of transparency on the Net on his Hearsay Culture radio show. It airs on KZSU next Friday, 24 February 2012, at 12:00PM PST / 3:00PM EST. If you object violently to broadcast radio, you can also hear [...]
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Posted on February 14th, 2012 by Derek Bambauer
The RIAA’s Cary Sherman had a screed about the Stop Online Piracy and PROTECT IP Acts in the New York Times recently. Techdirt’s Mike Masnick brilliantly gutted it, and I’m not going to pile on – a tour de force requires no augmentation. What I want to suggest is that the recording industry – or, [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Corporate Law, Digital Media, Education & Copyright, Filtering, First Amendment, Google, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, ISP, Law School, Media, Music, Peer Production, Politics, RIAA, Scholarship, Software
Posted on February 10th, 2012 by Derek Bambauer
In the spirit of the excellent colloquy here about Marvin’s thinking on First Amendment architectures, I bring up this news item: Arizona State University blocked both Web access to, and e-mail from, the change.org Web site. ASU students had begun a petition demanding that the university reduce tuition. The university essentially made three claims as [...]
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