Posted on February 20th, 2013 by Derek Bambauer
James Grimmelmann and David Post have responses to Orwell’s Armchair up at the University of Chicago Law Review’s Dialogue site. I’m grateful and flattered to have them as partners in the discussion, and I am very excited to read their articles!
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Filed under: Copyright, Education & Copyright, Filtering, First Amendment, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Law School, Politics, RIAA, Scholarship
Posted on January 25th, 2013 by Derek Bambauer
The lawsuit against scumbag Web site Texxxan.com has generated attention to the problem of revenge porn, and to the paucity of legal remedies available to victims of it. Danielle Citron has two excellent posts over at Concurring Opinions analyzing the relevant statutory block, 47 U.S.C. 230, and the few cases that cut through its immunity. [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2013 by Derek Bambauer
Because DVD ripping is illegal if you bypass DRM. Which, most of the time, you have to.
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Filed under: Computer crime, Copyright, Digital Media, Education & Copyright, Encryption, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, RIAA, Security, Software, Video
Posted on December 17th, 2012 by Derek Bambauer
The Center for Individual Freedom has just published a paper by three RIAA lawyers that purports to develop a natural rights theory and history of copyright. The paper is short (6 pages long), which appears to be its only valuable quality. I’ll set out a brief critique below, but first I want to note that [...]
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Posted on December 15th, 2012 by Derek Bambauer
I talked with Lifehacker’s IP guru Adam Dachis about the closure of several Usenet indexing services, including NZBMatrix. NZBMatrix threw in the towel after coming under twin pressures: a flood of DMCA notices related to links pointing to allegedly infringing content, and difficulty navigating the requirements of service providers such as PayPal. It’s the latest [...]
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Filed under: Anonymity, Copyright, Digital Media, Education & Copyright, Google, Intermediaries, international, Internet & Society, Media, Politics, RIAA, Search Engines, Software
Posted on October 24th, 2012 by Derek Bambauer
The final version of Orwell’s Armchair, 79 University of Chicago Law Review 863 (2012) , is available on-line (and in print, for those of you who roll old-school). Here’s the abstract: America has begun to censor the Internet. Defying conventional scholarly wisdom that Supreme Court precedent bars Internet censorship, federal and state governments are increasingly [...]
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Posted on October 22nd, 2012 by Derek Bambauer
The Daily Illini has a great piece about Jason Mazzone‘s analysis of an underappreciated problem: what happens to your Facebook content when you die? At the moment, the answer depends on an unpredictable hodgepodge of state probate law, private law via the social network’s Terms of Service, and the decedent’s foresight in providing her heirs [...]
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Posted on September 10th, 2012 by Derek Bambauer
I’m answering questions about Internet Law for the next hour or so at Lifehacker. Fire away!
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Posted on August 14th, 2012 by Derek Bambauer
Soon, major ISPs will be rolling out a “copyright education” program intended to deter infringement. The program, colloquially called “six strikes,” was negotiated between ISPs and the content industries – most notably the RIAA and MPAA. In addition, however, the Obama administration was heavily involved in the negotiations – primarily, it appears, on the side [...]
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Posted on May 29th, 2012 by Derek Bambauer
Slashdot pointed me to a debate over the relative accuracy and comprehensiveness of TomTom‘s map data, versus that of OpenStreetMap. TomTom is a proprietary system; OpenStreetMap is licensed under CC Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0, and permits users to add data in wiki fashion. TomTom claims its maps are more comprehensive and reliable. An OSM supporter claims that [...]
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