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- 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]
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
- If reputation is money in the bank, who owns the PIN?
- As evidenced by the many lawsuits against Google concerning PageRank or other search result (read reputational) slippage, the notion that you own your digital reputation — even if it is... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Jun 6, 2007 10:17 AM
- Day 1 of iTunes Plus has its minuses
- As Bob Lefsetz rants, the iTunes Plus launch today has not been without its hiccups. He's particularly ticked off that users must go through a laborious "change preferences" process once... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: May 30, 2007 2:01 PM
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- IP and the intangibles of access and use
- Hank Barry asked me recently to consider why humans think differently (e.g., we're likely to have less patience for restrictions and controls) about intangible property than we do about things... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: May 30, 2007 10:50 AM
- Amused me too
- Was just about to post something along these lines, but see The Vulture already has done all that I could do, and more: USA Today reports that the Regal Entertainment... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: May 30, 2007 10:19 AM
- Google at Risk: YouTube class action lawsuit changes DMCA copyright game
- YouTube class action lawsuit: Has YOUR copyright been infringed?So asks Proskauer Rose LLP and Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, the law firms prosecuting the action of The Football Association... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Donna Bogatin in Digital Markets on: May 11, 2007 9:33 AM
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- Web content DNA Map: Copyright control, monetization online
- What is the Web’s copyright content DNA?Can it be mapped, tracked and appropriately monetized?Jim Brock believes so, and so does the company he founded, Attributor.Brock, Attributor co-founder and CEO, addressed... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Donna Bogatin in Digital Markets on: May 9, 2007 1:31 AM
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- Google's YouTube: Is NBC copyright lawsuit near?
- Will NBC be the next major media company to sue Google’s YouTube for “massive copyright infringement”? YouTube: What is NBC’s end game? I asked in January, citing Rick Cotton, NBC... [Read the rest]
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