Posted on June 2nd, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
You can follow along with Computers, Freedom, and Privacy 2009 (“Creating the Future”) even if you’re not here in DC (where the weather is surprisingly lovely for June): via Twitter at Tweezup, the CFP blog, and streaming video. The Filtering panel, which also now includes Catherine Crump from the ACLU and Nicole Wong from Google, [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Computer crime, Digital Media, Filtering, First Amendment, international, Internet & Society, ISP, Media, Privacy, Scholarship, Search Engines, Social Networking, Video
Posted on June 2nd, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
Bronxnet has a video up of a show on cyber-harassment where I get to talk about the topic. (No, I did not give a “how-to” tutorial. I charge for that sort of thing.) This has become a vexing issue legally, from the Megan Meier / Lori Drew tragedy to the AutoAdmit case. I’d love your [...]
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Filed under: Anonymity, Computer crime, Court Decisions, Digital Media, First Amendment, Internet & Society, Media, Privacy, Social Networking, Video
Posted on May 1st, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
Update: Ben Sheffner has a great post over at Copyrights & Campaigns on this issue. Evidently it wasn’t a DMCA take-down; rather, YouTube’s audio fingerprinting system automatically flagged the work and, following Warner’s settings, removed it. Evidently the poster can fill out an on-line form to protest and, in this case, the video’s been restored. [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Court Decisions, Digital Media, Education & Copyright, First Amendment, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Music, Peer Production, RIAA, Scholarship, Video
Posted on March 10th, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
OK, it’s a weak title, but I needed the South Park allusion. When I was at Lotus, one of the plums was being selected to go to Lotusphere, the annual confab at the Walt Disney Swan and Dolphin resorts in Florida. I went twice (once as podium slave, once as presenter), and loved it for [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Digital Media, Education & Copyright, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Law School, Media, Notes, Peer Production, Software, Trademarks, Video
Posted on February 11th, 2009 by William McGeveran
[UPDATE: The agreement on the stimulus bill excludes the copyright filtering language. The proposal is not, of course, dead. So a letter to your representatives is still worthwhile, although now less urgent.] Through the good work of advocacy groups like Public Knowledge, efforts to add legal approval of copyright filtering to the economic stimulus bill [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Digital Media, Filtering, First Amendment, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, ISP, Privacy, RIAA, Video
Posted on February 6th, 2009 by Tim Armstrong
The movie studios sold fewer DVDs in 2008 than 2007 (which was itself a down year from the all-time sales peak of 2006). Why? Was it because of: The deepening recession in the United States throughout 2008, which caused consumers to cut back on discretionary spending on entertainment, as further confirmed by the decline in [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Digital Media, Internet & Society, Media, Video
Posted on January 29th, 2009 by William McGeveran
This blog has reported before on the efforts of the NFL, both in 2007 and in 2008, to threaten churches that planned to hold Super Bowl viewing parties. The league claimed an infringement of its intellectual property rights. As Tim and I explained in those past years, showing a broadcast of the game on a [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Intermediaries, Media, Music, Trademarks, Video
Posted on August 5th, 2008 by Tim Armstrong
I’m late to the party celebrating the Second Circuit’s terrific new opinion in Cartoon Network LP v. CSC Holdings, Inc., which is the appeals court’s caption for the case formerly known as 20th Century Fox v. Cablevision. As readers of this blog might recall, I joined an amicus brief in the case, limited to the [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Court Decisions, Digital Media, Video
Posted on April 10th, 2008 by Tim Armstrong
Paul Caron brought an interesting piece in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal to my attention: Candid Camera: Trove of Videos Vexes Wal-Mart. The story: about 30 years ago, Wal-Mart hired a small video production firm to record meetings of Wal-Mart’s executives, as well as speeches, shareholder meetings, sales presentations, and the like. The video recording outfit [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Media, Video
Posted on February 28th, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
Pretty drunk, apparently. The key issue is whether you’ll drive it well, or instead plow into a reef and spill millions of gallons of oil into a fragile ecosystem. My friend and colleague Colette Routel has written an amicus brief on the Exxon case (that’s the Exxon Valdez case). She’s also explained the case to [...]
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