Posted on November 15th, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
… according to The Onion. If my calculations are correct, I owe the Evil Empire approximately $9268.65 plus statutory interest. Coincidentally, this is roughly the same amount as an order of nachos and a domestic beer costs at the new Yankee Stadium.
“Interactive media is the next wave,” Cashman said. “With our upcoming mobile phone apps [...]
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Filed under: Court Decisions, Internet & Society, Media, Trademarks
Posted on October 26th, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
The net neutrality fight is on, as FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski’s proposal for new rules moved on to a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. Now, the two sides are digging in: AT&T, telcos, and unions on one side; Google and content providers on the other.
I tend to favor protecting end-to-end in the Internet context, but I’m [...]
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Filed under: Digital Media, Filtering, ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Network Neutrality, Privacy, Software, Spam, VoIP, badware
Posted on October 18th, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
Chris Schoenfeld of StationStops has a post up about his battle to get the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority to let him use its schedule data in his iPhone app. Brooklyn’s Law Incubator and Policy Clinic (BLIP) played a big role in Chris’s successful battle, and I’m very proud of the work that the BLIP [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Copyright, Education & Copyright, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Law School, Media, Open Access, Peer Production, Software
Posted on October 9th, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
My former ONI colleague Rafal Rohozinski, now of Information Warfare Monitor, has a great interview where he discusses methodology and findings for both projects. Well worth a read!
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Filed under: Berkman, Digital Media, Filtering, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, NSA, Privacy, Security, badware, international, national security
Posted on October 5th, 2009 by Tim Armstrong
Great news today on the open-access (OA) front with the federal government’s announcement that the Federal Register, the daily compilation of proposed and final regulations to be issued by federal agencies, will now be available in XML format. (Want to see a sample? Here is today’s issue as an XML document.) This is great [...]
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Filed under: Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Open Access
Posted on September 21st, 2009 by William McGeveran
New FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski threw down the network neutrality gauntlet in a speech today [PDF] [HTML] at the Brookings Institution, announcing his intention to start a formal process that would result in adoption of binding regulations. [There is good news and blog coverage from AP, Wired, and Washington Post.] His proposal would turn [...]
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Filed under: Digital Media, ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Network Neutrality
Posted on September 3rd, 2009 by William McGeveran
From blog post to journal article! I am pleased to report that the new issue of the University of Illinois Law Review includes my article, Disclosure, Endorsement, and Identity in Social Marketing. The ideas for the article began in posts on this blog, starting here and continuing here.
Here’s the full abstract of the new article:
Social [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Digital Media, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Peer Production, Privacy, Scholarship, Social Networking, Trademarks
Posted on September 2nd, 2009 by William McGeveran
This isn’t exactly fast-breaking news, but since I wrote a long post last year about the Lori Drew case and then noted the judge’s decision to rescind her conviction, I wanted to point out that the judge has now issued a written opinion explaining his reasoning. Eric Goldman has some cogent analysis. Like [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Computer crime, Court Decisions, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Social Networking, Virtual Worlds
Posted on August 31st, 2009 by William McGeveran
I still subscribe to my local newspaper, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, in dead-tree form. One evening in early August, just before my vacation, as I perused the ever-shrinking opinion page, my eye ran across this headline: “MEDIA, OLD AND NEW ‘FREE-RIDING’ AND COPYRIGHT.” The authors, Dan and David Marburger, argue that news [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Copyright, Court Decisions, Digital Media, First Amendment, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Minnesota
Posted on August 27th, 2009 by Tim Armstrong
I spent the summer finishing up a paper that I have been working on (off-again, on-again) for the better part of a year. The result is Shrinking the Commons: Termination of Copyright Licenses and Transfers for the Benefit of the Public, and it’s now available on SSRN. Readers of this blog with an interest in [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Internet & Society, Open Access, Open Standards, Peer Production, Scholarship, Software