I often find these chain-letter memes annoying, but this one is on such a valuable topic I am happy to participate: Mike Madison tags me to name five favorite non-legal blogs. It’s hard to pick just five, and some of my favorites are so obscure that I won’t subject you to them. But [...]
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Filed under: Berkman, Blogging, Internet & Society, Minnesota
The prolific and respected Bill Patry, who managed to author a terrific copyright treatise (complete with its own blog) while holding down one of the most desirable law-and-tech jobs in existence, has announced the closing of his copyright blog. (More at technorati).
It would have been unfortunate, but not really newsworthy, if the explanation was [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Copyright, Internet & Society
On reading about the dispute between the Associated Press and the Drudge Retort, I wondered immediately if AP had hired the Count from Sesame Street, and whether Cookie Monster blogs.
Copyright fights with bloggers are nothing new. Heck, they even show up in divorce proceedings occasionally. But this looks like serious overreaching by AP, for three [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Copyright, Education & Copyright, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Peer Production, Scholarship
The recent midwest flooding has hit Iowa particularly hard. My thoughts are with those whose lives have been directly affected. I also, however, want to recognize the University of Iowa’s particularly effective use of Web 2.0 tools to document the ongoing crisis and the university’s response: they have been maintaining a very informative [...]
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Filed under: Blogging
I will be a guest blogger at Concurring Opinions this month. I will cross-post anything to do with info/law here — and perhaps some things that are too geeky will get posted here and not there!
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My friend and colleague Noah Hall has just launched an excellent new blog that examines water law, with a particular focus on the Great Lakes. What’s he discussing? Fights over bottled water, the challenges of climate change, pending Supreme Court cases - all great stuff. Noah’s one of the leading experts on water law, as [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Blogroll, Court Decisions, Law School, international
Info/Law isn’t going anywhere, but I am. In the fall, I’ll take up residence as an assistant prof at Brooklyn Law School, which has kindly offered to put up with my collection of tech cartoons, Legos, and Lotus memorabilia. It will be hard to leave my friends at Wayne State, but I hope to entice [...]
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I have been relatively absent from the blog for a few weeks as I worked to complete two pieces of writing that have consumed all my time and brainpower. Both concern trademark “fair use” — the defenses available to those who use trademarks to facilitate their free expression.
The first piece, Four Free Speech Goals [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Law School, Scholarship, Trademarks
I’m working up a syllabus for an Internet Law-type course for next year. Since I’m a geek, not a legal theorist, I’m a bit short on the overarching theoretical approaches to the course. (What I mean is that I’ve got plenty of stuff by Yochai Benkler, Terry Fisher, Jonathan Zittrain, John Palfrey, Mary Rundle, etc., [...]
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I’ve moved part of this post from my earlier post on the ongoing Vermont divorce saga. This post has two parts: analysis of Judge Devine’s decision on the restraining order, and analysis of how strong a fair use defense Krasnansky could mount for his use of excerpts from Garrido’s journal / diary.
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Filed under: Blogging, Copyright, Court Decisions, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Privacy