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While I was shopping with a friend, he exclaimed, “That’s your button!” It is now.
Hidden Sweets has them.
Perhaps you’ll get one soon.

But I can’t bet. If Scott sees my bet on my blog, he might thwart me. ; )
Wasn’t Feedster Developers Contest judging supposed to begin today? Weren’t they supposed to announce a winner? Even though the form is still up, I’m still the only person who’s entered something to introduce people to feeds. I [...]

I’m playing on my blog and suddenly I notice and extra box at the bottom of the create/edit news item: Enclosure URL. Wow!
I think that means we can put the URL for a file there and it will go out in the blog’s feed.

Okay, well, it ws funnier when Jenny said it first. How about this a la butter/Parkay: "Wiki" "Taxonomy" "Wiki" "Taxonomy" Yeah, that’s not funny either.
I wasn’t going to write about Wixonomy, another amazing tool Shimon Rura crafted, until he wrote about it first, but someone asked me about it Wednesday and I wanted to [...]

Hal Abelson, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Jonthan Zittrain, and Wendy Seltzer
Freedom vs. Control: Rights Management in the Digital Age
NEASIST
Wednesday, December 15, 2004
Q: On the concept of licensing versus owning the object, what about being able to purchase a replacement copy of something for less because someone’s already purchased the right to use the object?
A: All four people [...]

Joi Ito wonders in jest about how he was selected to be screened while flying after the Votes, Bits, & Bytes conference.
"I wonder if it’s something I blogged. … Or maybe it’s who I was hanging around with in Boston."
One of the things about blogs is that the government can easily find out about our [...]

Hal Abelson
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
MIT
Freedom vs. Control: Rights Management in the Digital Age
NEASIST
Wednesday, December 15, 2004
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The video of Global Challenges introduces MIT’s OpenCourseWare, an effort to put course material online to make it accessible to the rest of the world. Abelson calls it the positive perspective.
In April 2001, a number of faculty [...]

Siva Vaidhyanathan
Sivacracy.net
New York University
Freedom vs. Control: Rights Management in the Digital Age
NEASIST
Wednesday, December 15, 2004
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I don’t mean to offend anyone when I write this. Vaidhyanathan is a well-built fellow with a shaved head wearing a black suit. He looks like the kind of person Law & Order picks to play thugs and bodyguards. I’m thinking, [...]

Wendy Seltzer
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society Fellow
Freedom vs. Control: Rights Management in the Digital Age
NEASIST
Wednesday, December 15, 2004
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Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
Legal Tags
“Is it chilly in here?” Wendy Seltzer asks relative to copyright law.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation recently helped the creators of JibJab fight a suit against the estate of Woody [...]

Jonathan Zittrain
Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Freedom vs. Control: Rights Management in the Digital Age
NEASIST
Wednesday, December 15, 2004
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Jonathan Zittrain reviewed the history of printing beginning with scrolls as an introduction to copyright law. He then talked about the basis of copyright law in America.
The suit claiming The Greatest American Hero violated Superman’s [...]