Posted on February 29th, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
Works in more places… I suppose the fake place name would be NSFrancisPying. (Hat tip to an anonymous friend!) The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of the Sixth Circuit’s ruling that the plaintiffs in the NSA suit here in Michigan lacked standing. The hard part, of course, is it’s extremely difficult to prove […]
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Filed under: Court Decisions, Filtering, Intermediaries, international, Internet & Society, ISP, national security, NSA, Privacy
Posted on February 28th, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
Pretty drunk, apparently. The key issue is whether you’ll drive it well, or instead plow into a reef and spill millions of gallons of oil into a fragile ecosystem. My friend and colleague Colette Routel has written an amicus brief on the Exxon case (that’s the Exxon Valdez case). She’s also explained the case to […]
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Filed under: civil procedure, Court Decisions, international, Law School, Minnesota, Scholarship, Video
Posted on February 25th, 2008 by Tim Armstrong
Continuing our proud tradition here at Info/Law of mercilessly spotlighting journalistic cluenessness in matters of intellectual property (all with the best of intentions! right, guys? …guys?), here’s today’s morsel, from “Inside Higher Ed”: Does Clinton Have a Copyright Problem?. The accusation: Senator Clinton has appeared in front of big campaign banners reading “Solutions for America,” […]
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Filed under: Copyright, Media, Trademarks, Voting
Posted on February 22nd, 2008 by Tim Armstrong
I’m stuck at CVG, waiting for my repeatedly rescheduled flight to Des Moines for Peter Yu‘s 2008 IP Scholars Roundtable. (The weather’s been bad here, and all the outbound Des Moines flights between my originally scheduled one last night and right now have been canceled). If I eventually do make it, it will be the […]
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Filed under: Cincinnati, Copyright, Law School, Scholarship
Posted on February 20th, 2008 by Tim Armstrong
Stanford law professor Larry Lessig, a co-founder of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society and an author of many influential works in the domain of cyberlaw and intellectual property, announced today that he is thinking of running for Congress to fill the seat recently opened by the death of Rep. Tom Lantos. More (although […]
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Filed under: Berkman, Internet & Society, Law School, Voting
Posted on February 15th, 2008 by William McGeveran
Ars Technica has reported that a chain reaction resulting from the death of Congressman Tom Lantos may mark a significant improvement in the line-up of chairmanships influential on Info/Law issues. (It may seem a bit ghoulish to speculate on the spoils right after the death of a great legislator like Lantos, a towering figure in […]
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Filed under: Copyright, Education & Copyright, Internet & Society, Network Neutrality, Open Access, Open Standards, Patents, RIAA, Trademarks, Voting
Posted on February 14th, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
At Lotusphere 2008, IBM announced that Lotus Notes 8.5 will run on Ubuntu Linux 7.0. This shows IBM’s ongoing commitment to Linux – even on the desktop. And any Linux desktop users help IBM in its ongoing competition with Microsoft. (Domino, the server side to Notes, runs on virtually everything. I remember testing it on […]
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Filed under: Digital Media, Internet & Society, Microsoft, Notes, Open Standards, Peer Production, Software
Posted on February 11th, 2008 by William McGeveran
In a development that got a lot of press around here, the town of International Falls, Minnesota, way up on the Canadian border, secured registration of the trademark for the slogan “Icebox of the Nation.” The town had allowed the registration to lapse, and their old archenemies in Fraser, Colorado, near Denver, tried to register […]
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Filed under: Copyright, Media, Minnesota, Trademarks
Posted on February 9th, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
I start most mornings, especially on weekends, by reading the New York Times. In my household, I get made fun of for reading the Business section first (that’s where the tech stories reside). Sometimes that can be a bad idea, like today, when I read the story on the Harry Potter lawsuit and began yelling […]
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Filed under: Books, Copyright, Corporate Law, Court Decisions, Digital Media, Education & Copyright, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Peer Production
Posted on February 8th, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
I’m working up a syllabus for an Internet Law-type course for next year. Since I’m a geek, not a legal theorist, I’m a bit short on the overarching theoretical approaches to the course. (What I mean is that I’ve got plenty of stuff by Yochai Benkler, Terry Fisher, Jonathan Zittrain, John Palfrey, Mary Rundle, etc., […]
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