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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Posted on July 20th, 2009 by William McGeveran
Jonathan Zittrain expands on the themes in his must-read book this morning in a must-read New York Times op-ed about the shift toward cloud computing. A taste of the main point:
[T]he most difficult challenge — both to grasp and to solve — of the cloud is its effect on our freedom to innovate. The crucial [...]
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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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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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Posted on November 30th, 2008 by Tim Armstrong
That day appears to have moved one step closer with the news that the free Google Docs service now supports footnotes, a functionality presently indispensable to legal academic writing (although occasionally controversial).
Now if we can just get the law review editors to stop insisting on Microsoft Word, we will be getting somewhere.
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Posted on February 15th, 2008 by William McGeveran
Ars Technica has reported that a chain reaction resulting from the death of Congressman Tom Lantos may mark a significant improvement in the line-up of chairmanships influential on Info/Law issues. (It may seem a bit ghoulish to speculate on the spoils right after the death of a great legislator like Lantos, a towering figure [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Education & Copyright, Internet & Society, Network Neutrality, Open Access, Open Standards, Patents, RIAA, Trademarks, Voting
Posted on February 14th, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
At Lotusphere 2008, IBM announced that Lotus Notes 8.5 will run on Ubuntu Linux 7.0. This shows IBM’s ongoing commitment to Linux – even on the desktop. And any Linux desktop users help IBM in its ongoing competition with Microsoft. (Domino, the server side to Notes, runs on virtually everything. I remember testing it on [...]
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Posted on December 14th, 2007 by Derek Bambauer
My former employer Lotus has (re)-launched Symphony, an office applications suite that competes with Microsoft Office. (Yes, I know this is like sending Elmo to take on Darth Vader.) Symphony uses Open Document Format, an open standard for application files.
The fun part is that this is the sequel to Symphony – the original, released in [...]
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Posted on August 2nd, 2007 by Tim Armstrong
Via Boing Boing, here’s an interesting inside look at the technology inside Sir Richard Branson’s new airline, Virgin America. It sounds like one of the most thorough attempts yet to create a technologically immersive travel experience — there are personal entertainment systems at every seat (not so uncommon any more on long-haul flights), but [...]
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Posted on October 25th, 2006 by Tim Armstrong
Via Larry Solum’s Legal Theory Blog comes word of an important announcement from the editors of the Northwestern University Law Review. The editors have been paying close attention to the open-access debate (see here for Bill’s terrific compilation of links to many of the most interesting recent posts), and after giving the matter [...]
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