http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw Information, Law, and the Law of Information Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:07:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you follow trademark law you must bookmark this invaluable web site at the University of Texas at Austin Law Library. It lists every new trademark law article weekly. Fabulous (though I wish it linked to online versions of the articles too). http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2008/07/05/texas-tm-site/ What better way to dive back into regular blogging than to discuss the Info/Law implications of a naked blue anthropomorphized M&M in Times Square? A recent decision by Judge Denny Chin in New York federal court involved two billboards in Times Square advertising M&M candies. The video animation in the ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2008/07/03/naked-cowboy/ On reading about the dispute between the Associated Press and the Drudge Retort, I wondered immediately if AP had hired the Count from Sesame Street, and whether Cookie Monster blogs. Copyright fights with bloggers are nothing new. Heck, they even show up in divorce proceedings occasionally. But this looks like serious ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2008/06/28/the-associated-press-fair-use-and-counting-with-cookie-monster/ Recently, after New York Attorney General Cuomo browbeat 3 major ISPs into dropping large chunks of Usenet in the name of reducing access to child porn, I predicted that other states would rapidly hop on the bandwagon. California - always envious of New York's position as a trendsetter - has ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2008/06/27/california-also-comes-out-against-child-porn/ The ccLearn project is looking for a counsel and assistant director. Looks like an attractive opportunity for lawyers with an interest in cyber rights issues, IP law, and education. It also sounds like the ccLearn people ought to be talking to the eLangdell people. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2008/06/24/creative-commons-is-hiring/ I'm traveling to Baltimore tomorrow, where I'll be speaking later this week at UMD, one of the few law schools that can claim to be older than my own. The occasion is this year's CALI Conference for Law School Computing, and I'll be delivering an updated version of my talk ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2008/06/17/an-open-access-success-story-just-in-time-for-cali/ The recent midwest flooding has hit Iowa particularly hard. My thoughts are with those whose lives have been directly affected. I also, however, want to recognize the University of Iowa's particularly effective use of Web 2.0 tools to document the ongoing crisis and the university's response: they have ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2008/06/16/iowa-flood-blog-flickr-photostream/ Update: I should have read more carefully: Time Warner and Verizon confirmed they're not going to block any Web sites. I've changed text below to reflect that. Yesterday, I posted a quick analysis of the new policy (using the methodology I propose in a new draft paper) undertaken by Sprint, Verizon, ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2008/06/11/round-2-time-warner-gets-it-wrong-and-the-french-follow-the-model/ Filtering: it's not just for China anymore. (Or Australia, India, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Vietnam, South Korea...) Internet censorship via technological means is a growing trend, and now it's surfaced in the U.S. Three major ISPs have agreed, under pressure from New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, to block access ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2008/06/10/filtering-american-style-verizon-sprint-time-warner-cable-to-block-/ Fun article in the Washington Post about a copyright dispute over the banal "Footprints in the Sand" poem that's a favorite of poster stores and greeting cards everywhere. There are at least 3 contenders for authorship of (and copyright in) the poem. Why would anyone be eager to claim credit ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2008/06/02/and-then-i-carried-you-into-court/