Posted on August 29th, 2007 by William McGeveran
There has been extensive commentary and derision around the legal blogosphere about a preposterous corporate song commissioned by the law firm of Nixon Peabody, and then the firm’s subsequent efforts to threaten those who mocked it with IP saber-rattling. David Lat first posted the song, and here he summarizes the ensuing flapdoodle. A [...]
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Posted on May 29th, 2007 by William McGeveran
I guess summer is the time for academics to take a step back and engage in some productive self-assessment (as distinguished from “increased navel-gazing,” which surely happens as well).
Two upcoming events typify that sort of valuable self-assessment as it pertains to the university and info/law:
1. The Berkman Center at Harvard is sponsoring the Internet [...]
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Posted on July 14th, 2006 by William McGeveran
The New York Times ran a story yesterday [reg/$$$ req'd] about intellectual property protection for perfumes, a subject on which I posted last week. There is already interesting comment on the story from both Frank Pasquale at Madisonian.net and Susan Scafidi at Counterfeit Chic.
The Times story also shows that the legal situation in France [...]
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Posted on May 11th, 2006 by William McGeveran
One of our first commenters (hooray!) picks up on a statement in Derek’s introductory post: Derek prefers (as do I) the term “information law” to “cyberlaw” because it focuses on the content itself, not only the mechanism of delivery. I would expand that to suggest that “information law” includes both medium and message. As terminology, [...]
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