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 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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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
Posted on June 24th, 2009 by Tim Armstrong
One of the many interesting presentations I attended at the just-concluded 2009 CALI Conference was a tag-team primer on creating digital statute books and casebooks. Now, I see that one of the presenters, Professor Steve Bradford of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, has posted on SSRN the paper he discussed at CALI. Here’s the pithy abstract:
Law students [...]
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Filed under: Books, Digital Media, Education & Copyright, Internet & Society, Law School, Open Access
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
I’m in scenic Boulder, CO for this year’s CALI Conference for Law School Computing. John Palfrey is delivering this morning’s keynote. He’s the perfect choice for the CALI crowd, a group that straddles legal academia, law libraries, and information technology. Palfrey’s well regarded in all three of those camps and it’ll be great to hear [...]
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Filed under: Berkman, Internet & Society, Law School, Open Access, Peer Production
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 10th, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
Ping (along with traceroute and nslookup) is one of the most basic, useful, and frequently-employed network tools I’m familiar with. In poking around for a coherent explanation of what Ping is, I found this terrific history from Ping’s creator, Michael Muuss. I love it for the same reason that I love The Cathedral and The [...]
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Filed under: ISP, Internet & Society, Open Access, Privacy, Software
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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