Dan Solove recently posted on Concurring Opinions about a topic near and dear to my heart: the privacy costs of disclosure for political contributions. A lively debate, featuring Dan, Orin Kerr, and others, follows in the comments. Check it out.
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Thanks to the Concurring Opinions gang for inviting me back for another visit!
I will leave it to the likes of the incredible Rick Hasen and SCOTUSBlog’s Lyle Deniston — among many, many others — to talk about the important election law elements of Monday’s Supreme Court decision on voter identification in Crawford v. Marion County [...]
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Back in September 2006 I expressed skepticism about the posting of all congressional staff salaries by a web site called LegiStorm. At the time I said:
It might be different if this were the members of Congress themselves (whose salaries are set by statute) or perhaps their most senior aides. Can it really matter to [...]
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Continuing our proud tradition here at Info/Law of mercilessly spotlighting journalistic cluenessness in matters of intellectual property (all with the best of intentions! right, guys? …guys?), here’s today’s morsel, from “Inside Higher Ed”: Does Clinton Have a Copyright Problem?. The accusation: Senator Clinton has appeared in front of big campaign banners reading “Solutions for America,” [...]
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Stanford law professor Larry Lessig, a co-founder of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society and an author of many influential works in the domain of cyberlaw and intellectual property, announced today that he is thinking of running for Congress to fill the seat recently opened by the death of Rep. Tom Lantos. More [...]
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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
In part for reasons I discussed yesterday, the Nevada Supreme Court issued an emergency decision vacating a lower court injunction — “less than an hour before showtime” — that would have forced MSNBC to include Dennis Kucinich in last night’s Democratic primary presidential debate. A few additional comments:
1. Kucinich and some media outlets [...]
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I am back from my blogging hiatus, during which I have been celebrating Christmas, grading, writing, and attending the annual schmooze-a-thon known as the American Association of Law School Annual Meeting.
And what better point of re-entry than a post combining my love of info/law with my love of politics?
Late yesterday evening, a Nevada trial judge [...]
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The ultimate MSM outlet, the New York Times, took a look today at Off the Bus, a still-new venture supported by the Huffington Post that is trying to harness the unruly but potentially powerful forces of crowdsourced reporting to cover the 2008 election campaign. Among their many advantages, they have Berkman alum Amanda Michel [...]
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The Fox News Channel has sent a cease-and-desist letter to John McCain’s presidential campaign demanding that he stop airing a new commercial because it uses footage from a recent Republican candidates’ debate sponsored by Fox News. (You can view the ad, entitled “Tied Up,” on McCain’s site here). The Fox News logo is [...]
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