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Six things to know if your Facebook username has been squattedPosted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on Jun 13, 2009 8:34 AM
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Mike Arrington couldn't get his name as a Facebook username when registration opened on 6/12/09. Here are six things you should know if you're in the same boat.[Read the rest]

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Napster and the "The more things change" rule
Drew Wilson at Zero Paid points out that Napster celebrates its 10th birthday this month. The Globe and Mail takes a deeper look in its Download Decade series. In the... [Read the rest]
Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Jun 11, 2009 9:05 AM
Microsoft's Bing playing fast and loose with fair use?
Microsoft's new Bing Search engine displays full length thumbnail videos -- with sound, stripped of ads. This appears to be the broadest "universal video search" yet, and may exceed the... [Read the rest]
Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Jun 2, 2009 8:53 AM
Video helps to quantify "fair"
American University's Center for Social Media is working to lend some certainty to the amorphous doctrine of "fair use." [Read the rest]
Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: May 30, 2009 8:46 AM
Barack Obama is male, taken, and CC licensed
While John McCain recently complained about Google's application of the DMCA, Barack Obama has been quietly employing a Creative Commons license for his Flickr photostream. [Read the rest]
Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Nov 8, 2008 10:13 AM
Mail Goggles: an idea that goes well beyond drunk emails
There's a new GMail Labs app: Mail Goggles, by GMail engineer Jon Perlow: When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you're really sure you want to send that... [Read the rest]
Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Oct 8, 2008 10:43 AM
Jennifer Leggio unpacks demand letter over "branded community"
Over at ZDNet's Feeds, Jennifer Leggio walks us through a cease and desist email she recently received. The email suggested her blog's use of the term "branded community" might... [Read the rest]
Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Jul 25, 2008 8:39 AM
Overly restrictive A.P. quoting guidelines risk winning battles at the war's expense
Saul Hansell reports today that the Associated Press "will, for the first time, attempt to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and... [Read the rest]
Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Jun 16, 2008 9:44 AM
Stanford Information Law Symposium
Though it could scarcely be more cumbersomely named — the Transatlantic Information Law Symposium — this upcoming (and free) program at Stanford Law School looks excellent, featuring such big... [Read the rest]
Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: May 21, 2008 10:14 AM
A short, pointed list of 'wonderful policies'
In putting together a list of what I consider to be relatively clueful site policies, terms, and guidelines, I just stumbled on BoingBoing's List of Wonderful Policies. And it is.... [Read the rest]
Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: May 14, 2008 10:38 AM
Sparks fly over copyright at Tech Policy Summit
"Copyright in a Converged World" proved a hot topic at Tech Policy Summit '08, as EFF's Fred von Lohmann and TiVo's Matt Zinn took on Patrick Ross of the Copyright... [Read the rest]
Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Mar 31, 2008 12:09 AM
Lawrence Lessig, congresscritter nominee
With a Bay Area Congressional seat set for special election in two months, Berkman Executive Director John Palfrey has launched a grassroots campaign to convince Professor Lawrence Lessig to run.... [Read the rest]
Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Feb 18, 2008 9:49 AM
Docstoc for law school (a.k.a. today's young whippersnappers don't know how good they have it!)
My goodness. Check out the impressive array of law school outlines and other law school and bar exam resources being amassed at Docstoc. Aside from being incredibly useful, my... [Read the rest]
Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Jan 30, 2008 10:38 AM
Christmas is a time for mashups
As I inevitably download "new" holiday music each year, it's painfully apparent we wouldn't *have* much new holiday music if it weren't for sampling, remixes, remakes, and mashups. The iTunes... [Read the rest]
Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Dec 24, 2007 10:54 AM
Kindling a controversy
Ed Champion is investigating whether certain bloggers included in Amazon's Kindle launch were made "Kindle Blogs" without authorization or licensing. He cites two examples (Daniel McGowan and Cork Gaines) of... [Read the rest]
Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Nov 20, 2007 11:29 AM
Want to know what over 7,500 ZDNet readers think about copying digital media?
Then get on over to Ed Bott's Microsoft Report, where his poll on digital media ethics has garnered an overwhelming, and highly educational, response. [Read the rest]
Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Oct 15, 2007 12:28 PM
WikiPatents: 1 year old and 10 million entries
WikiPatents, "a public community that reviews US patents and pending patent applications," is one year old and now home to information and commentary about over 10 million patents and patent... [Read the rest]
Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Oct 15, 2007 12:12 PM
In the trenches with Live Web law at EFF's Bootcamp
If you're doing business on the Live Web, get thee this Wednesday, October 10, to EFF's Bootcamp, "a one-day session for Web 2.0 workers on user generated content:" Does your... [Read the rest]
Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Oct 8, 2007 10:56 AM
Creative Commons, the Live Web, and quickie divorce info centers
Dennis Kennedy pointed me to Shelley Powers, who pointed me in turn to Slashdot and Professor Lessig. All concern a lawsuit pending in Dallas, TX against Virgin Mobile and Creative... [Read the rest]
Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Sep 26, 2007 11:59 AM
IP and the user generated economy at TechCrunch40
Some very competitively interesting Web companies are being launched and/or featured today and tomorrow at TechCrunch40. In the wrap-up portion of the Community Collaboration session, former Napster executive Don Dodge... [Read the rest]
Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Sep 17, 2007 5:07 PM
It's all about the team, it's all about respect...
Following up on the Nixon Peabody song story, it's worth noting: One of David Lat's related posts is now the sixth fifth Google search result for Nixon Peabody; and The... [Read the rest]
Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Aug 25, 2007 7:55 PM
Blogger contends posting silly leaked law firm song is fair use
News reporting is one of the classic examples of fair use, and blogger David Lat contends the doctrine covers his posting a groaningly bad "motivational" song leaked from a large... [Read the rest]
Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Aug 23, 2007 10:43 PM
Changing the way we find, reference, and talk about the law
Tim O'Reilly and John Markoff have good writeups on public.resource.org, which aims among other things to create "an unencumbered repository of all [U.S.] federal and state case law and codes."... [Read the rest]
Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Aug 22, 2007 11:49 AM
Lawgarithms Links for 8/13/07
Remember that between entries here you can keep up with the Live Web (and other) issues I'm spotting by subscribing to my Google Reader Starred Items. Among the links now... [Read the rest]
Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Aug 13, 2007 11:24 AM
Don't miss Robert Scoble's interview with IBM's IP guru, Dave Kappos
Robert Scoble sat down with IBM's chief intellectual property counsel at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit to discuss current trends toward open standards, open source, collaboration, globalization, etc. Great conversation. [Read the rest]
Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Aug 13, 2007 10:14 AM
Social networks: what goes out, what goes in
The Social Networking 3.0 panel at AlwaysOn considered issues of identity, attention, and intellectual property. [Read the rest]
Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Aug 2, 2007 4:28 PM
AlwaysOn Stanford Summit: lawyers for Google, IBM, and Apple ponder the patent system
According to lawyers from Google, IBM, Apple, and two respected IP law firms, the patent system needs help, it's more important than ever to think about protecting innovations early and... [Read the rest]
Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Aug 1, 2007 2:21 PM
Chris Pirillo is socialsquatted; does the law care?
I can scarcely begin to catalog the legal considerations related to the fact that someone is masquerading as Chris Pirillo on Pownce. [Read the rest]
Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Jul 28, 2007 9:04 PM
Valleywag latest example of cutting Creative Commons corners
Valleywag appreciates Dan Farber's considerable skills as a photojournalist, but apparently not enough to heed the straightforward terms of the applicable Creative Commons license. [Read the rest]
Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Jul 27, 2007 8:38 AM
Embedding a headache
Just because something is on YouTube doesn't mean you're in the clear from a copyright standpoint if you embed it. (Same goes for Flickr, etc.) Jonathan Bailey picked my brain... [Read the rest]
Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Jul 9, 2007 12:47 PM
Viacom and YouTube lawyers and others are in violent agreement: intellectual property won't kill social media
There has been a good deal of violent agreement thus far here at Supernova, but I was pretty surprised at the degree of it we had on the panel... [Read the rest]
Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Jun 20, 2007 5:36 PM
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