August 15, 2009
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Fee Culture vs. Free Culture
Allan Gregory (a 3rd year law student and my summer intern at the Berkman Center) and I have spent a lot of time this summer looking at the history of copyright and royalties, mostly in respect to music. What I’ve noticed in the course of this work is how much commercial interests of one kind… Continue reading
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Says here your name is Zimmerman.
Suspicious white man reported in minority neighborhood: Rock legend Bob Dylan was treated like a complete unknown by police in a New Jersey shore community when a resident called to report someone wandering around the neighborhood. Dylan was in Long Branch, about a two-hour drive south of New York City, on July 23 as part… Continue reading
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LaBrea fire grows
According to the latest Inciweb report, the LaBrea fire is now at close to 70,000 acres, and 10% contained. And according to the latest from Ray Ford in the Independent, the fire is “almost impossible” to contain. Here’s the latest from MODIS, wrapped onto Google Earth, showing the fire’s advance in the direction of Santa… Continue reading