Posted on September 22nd, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
My colleague and friend Miriam Baer has posted her latest piece, Governing Corporate Compliance (soon to appear in the Boston College Law Review), on SSRN. Here’s the abstract:
In light of the financial meltdown of 2008, it is reasonable to question whether the prior decade’s emphasis on corporate compliance – the internal programs that corporations adopt [...]
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Filed under: Corporate Law, Intermediaries, Law School, Scholarship
Posted on September 21st, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
My colleague and friend Robin Effron, along with Adam Steinman (a colleague of Tim’s) and Cynthia Fountaine of Texas Wesleyan, has launched the Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog. Not only is Robin an expert on civ pro, but she also has the only set of major philosopher action figures I’ve ever seen…
Update: The action [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Cincinnati, Court Decisions, Law School, Scholarship, civil procedure
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 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 August 11th, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
The guns in RIAA v. Tenenbaum have gone temporarily silent; now, there’s post-game analysis and preparations for the next phase: challenging the jury’s award of $675,000 in damages ($22,500 per song, at 30 songs). Ben Sheffner’s Billboard column gives a great summary of the fight. Tenenbaum’s side will claim that the Copyright Act’s statutory damages [...]
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Filed under: Berkman, Blogging, Copyright, Court Decisions, Digital Media, Education & Copyright, First Amendment, Internet & Society, Law School, Media, Music, RIAA, Scholarship, civil procedure
Posted on August 7th, 2009 by William McGeveran
I am at the Intellectual Property Scholars Conference at Cardozo Law School in New York City. If you don’t have the good fortune to be here with me, the agenda and paper abstracts are on line.
A couple of idiosyncratic highlights for me so far include:
Tom Lee’s empirical analysis of how consumers perceive the semantic or [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Copyright, Internet & Society, Law School, Patents, Scholarship, Trademarks
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 July 17th, 2009 by William McGeveran
The Privacy Commissioner of Canada, a federal regulator responsible for overseeing compliance with that country’s broad data protection statute, has issued a long-awaited report on Facebook’s privacy practices. The investigation was triggered by a formal complaint filed by students at the University of Ontario’s cyberlaw clinic. The result is a comprehensive and sophisticated analysis that [...]
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Filed under: Digital Media, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Privacy, Scholarship, Social Networking
Posted on July 17th, 2009 by William McGeveran
My school, the University of Minnesota, is seeking applicants for a very cool job that mixes expertise in law, policy, technology, medicine, and ethics. You can check out the full job announcement; a taste follows:
The Associate Director of Research & Education for the Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life [...]
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Filed under: Health Law, Minnesota, Scholarship
Posted on July 14th, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
Bruce Schneier links to a paper from HotSec that argues strong passwords accomplish little; instead, stronger user IDs and limits on log-in attempts are better solutions. (Implicit in this argument is that dictionary or guessing attacks are lower-priority threats than phishing or keyloggers.) And John Kelly of the Washington Post bemoans the standard yet brain-dead [...]
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Filed under: Computer crime, Encryption, Internet & Society, Scholarship, Security, Software