Posted on June 29th, 2009 by William McGeveran
Most commentary about the Supreme Court today surely will focus on the controversial Ricci employment discrimination case and its impact on Judge Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings. But the Court also announced two important orders in Info/Law, both concerning decisions that it will not make. By refusing to grant cert. in these cases, the Court [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Court Decisions, First Amendment, Media, Privacy, Voting
Posted on June 19th, 2009 by Tim Armstrong
I delivered my “Crowdsourcing and Open Access” presentation earlier today at CALICon09. A huge thank-you to all who attended; I learned a good deal from the comments and questions (as always happens at these things) and it was a very enjoyable experience. I spent a good part of the presentation talking about how crowdsourced proofreading [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Law School, Open Access, Peer Production, Scholarship, Search Engines
Posted on June 18th, 2009 by Tim Armstrong
Last year, the trial judge who presided over the trial of accused file-sharer Jammie Thomas suggested that the jury’s award of $222,000 in statutory damages in the first trial may have been excessive.
So it’s interesting to speculate what the judge might make of the damages a jury just awarded to the record label plaintiffs in [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Court Decisions, Digital Media, Internet & Society, Media, Minnesota, Music, RIAA
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, ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, 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 [...]
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Filed under: Cincinnati, Copyright, Internet & Society, Law School, Open Access, Open Standards, Peer Production, Scholarship, Security
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, [...]
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Filed under: Cincinnati, Copyright, Education & Copyright, Law School, Open Access, Scholarship
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.
In [...]
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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
Posted on April 30th, 2009 by Tim Armstrong
During last year’s Presidential campaign, the Obama team earned accolades for its embrace of new technology to get its message out. During the transition, it extended tools developed during the campaign to allow citizen input on policy. So, 100 days in, how is the new President doing on fostering technological innovation?
Not too well, according to [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Court Decisions, Digital Media, Internet & Society, Media, Privacy, Security
Posted on April 29th, 2009 by Tim Armstrong
“Copyfraud at the White House!” Sounds like a title the late Margaret Truman might have dreamed up, doesn’t it. The story in brief: the White House yesterday posted nearly 300 official photographs taken during the first 100 days of the Obama Administration on Flickr, the popular photo-sharing site. Applause, applause. And the best part of [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Internet & Society, Media, Open Access, Peer Production
Posted on April 28th, 2009 by Tim Armstrong
It was the end of an era when the music industry announced late last year that it would end its five-year campaign of filing tens of thousands of copyright infringement lawsuits against end-users of peer-to-peer file-sharing software in favor of a new plan that relied more heavily on intermediaries, such as internet service providers, to [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Court Decisions, Digital Media, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Music, RIAA