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William Patry delivering Frey Lecture in Intellectual Property Law at Duke
By Andrew SavikasNovember 7, 2009
via ustream.tv Google Senior Copyright Counsel Bill Patry, who will be one of our keynote speakers at TOC 2010, delivered a great lecture at Duke last month dissecting the...
Four short links: 27 August 2009
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 27, 2009
Second Degree Murder and Six Other Crimes Cheaper Than Pirating Music -- I'm outraged that the Obama administration is supporting the RIAA on the case against Jammie Thomas, a single mother of four who has to pay them $1.92 million for downloading songs. That's more expensive than murder and six other crimes... (via Br3nda) Bill Drummond Talk (MP3) --...
Four short links: 3 June 2009
By Nat TorkingtonJune 3, 2009
Tinychat -- very simple web-based take on videochat. Pro members get higher resolution, more rooms, and privacy. (I like the "free = public, charge for private" business model) One Click Orgs -- One Click Orgs is building a website where groups can quickly create a legal structure and get a simple system for group decisions. We think social enterprises,...
Four short links: 26 May 2009
By Nat TorkingtonMay 26, 2009
Flare -- dynamically partitioning and reconstructing key-value server. Currently built on Tokyo Cabinet, but backend is theoretically pluggable. (via joshua on delicious) Implantable Device Offers Continuous Cancer Monitoring -- the sensor network begins to extend into our bodies. The cylindrical, 5-millimeter implant contains magnetic nanoparticles coated with antibodies specific to the target molecules. Target molecules enter the implant through...
Four short links: 23 Mar 2009
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 23, 2009
Digital rights, digital wrongs, newspaper science, and hardback socializing. Just another four short links: Twitter Mistrial -- this isn't a calamity for justice, we're just able to do something we couldn't do before (were there many jurors running pamphlets off on their printing presses in the old days?) so we need to figure out whether we want it or not....
At Risk: Universal Online Access to All Knowledge
By Linda StoneMarch 11, 2009
"After digesting the proposed Google Book Settlement, it becomes clear that the dizzyingly complex agreement is, in essence, an elaborate scheme for the exploitation of orphan works… The upshot, if the Settlement is approved, would be legal protection for Google, and only for Google, to scan and provide digital access to the orphan works."
Excerpting Best Practices Hinge on Intent
By Mac SlocumMarch 2, 2009
A piece in the New York Times reignites the fair use debate by asking: How much excerpting does fair use cover? It's a reasonable question, particularly since Google News, the...
Interview with Infoworld's Paul Venezia on the Terry Child's Case
By Timothy M. O'BrienFebruary 26, 2009
If you are a network engineer, you might want to pay attention to the continuing case of Terry Childs in San Francisco. In this 15-minute interview, Paul Venezia discusses the inconsistencies in the case, and why every technologist should be paying attention to the outcome of the Childs case.
New York Times Settles Linking Suit
By Peter BrantleyJanuary 27, 2009
In what many of us thought was a slightly bizarre case, the New York Times Co. has settled with GateHouse Media in a suit attempting to cease the automated...
Four short links: 16 Jan 2009
By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 16, 2009
Toys, telegraphs, transparency, and travel in today's roundup of short interesting links. New Law Could Wipe Out Handcrafted Toy Makers - CNN story on a new consumer safety law that mandates expensive quality tests for components of toys, even those handmade in the US by micro-businesses. It's not clear what a solution looks like: mass-produced in China or micro-produced in...
Richard Jefferson Interviewed in Com Ciência
By Nat TorkingtonDecember 24, 2008
I enjoyed this interview with Richard Jefferson (caution: PDF) from Com Ciência No. 102, October 05, 2008. Richard runs CAMBIA, a group that fights for open innovation in biological sciences. He's particularly cautionary about the potential for patents to greatly restrict the development of Synthetic Biology (SB): But don't doubt there will be some very interesting biological understanding that emerges...
EFF Attorney: Google Book Search Settlement Weakens Innovation
By Peter BrantleyNovember 20, 2008
In an editorial in The Recorder, Fred von Lohmann of the Electronic Frontier Foundation says Google's settlement with publishers and authors signals an implicit abandonment of Google's legal team...
EFF's Concerns About the Google Book Search Settlement
By Peter BrantleyNovember 3, 2008
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) notes that the Google Book Search settlement accomplishes a degree of access that litigation might have taken years to develop, but it also observes...
Born Digital: A review for the moment
By Andy OramSeptember 10, 2008
Born Digital postulates a watershed between those born on or before 1980 and those born after. Although the book is advertised as a guide to the latter for those born earlier, I suspect that the marketing became unmoored from the authorship. That's because the book's arguments culminate in the message that its lessons need to be learned by "digital natives" most of all, and that they are the ones best positioned to alleviate the social dislocations caused by digital media and the Internet.
Fences in the ether: Brazil's proposed Internet laws
By Andy OramAugust 29, 2008
The subject of this article sounds like a mock-cartoon version of repressive censorship laws. But the proposals are real. They have been widely discussed in the Brazilian blogosphere and to some extent in the Brazilian press and TV, but they've received hardly any attention in the United States.
Landmark Case Upholds Open Source Licenses
By Roberta CairneyAugust 15, 2008
The U.S. Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit has issued a wondrously clear and unambiguous opinion that supports the enforceability of open source and public licenses. http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions/08-1001.pdf It is great news for user and contributor communities, and their lawyers. The Back Story: The software in the case is licensed under Artistic License 1.0, which was written by Larry Wall...
New Rulings Let Pubs Create Digital Archives With No Additional Royalties
By Mac SlocumJuly 3, 2008
Two recent cases allow publishers to create exact digital archives of back catalogs without freelancer permission or payment of additional royalties.
News Roundup: Dual-Display E-Reader Prototype, Content Tracking Not Just for Takedowns Anymore, Indiana "Explicit" Law Struck Down
By Mac SlocumJuly 2, 2008
Researchers Develop Dual-Display E-Reader Researchers from Berkeley and the University of Maryland have built a dual-display e-reader prototype that uses traditional book-reading navigation (i.e. page turns, flipping the cover...
Mistake Shows Need for Clear Communication in Piracy Discussions
By Mac SlocumJune 27, 2008
The importance of clear communication around the murky topic of piracy is highlighted after my first impression of an executive's comment proves incorrect.
The wiretapping accusation against P2P and copyright filtering: evidence that we need more user/provider discussion
By Andy OramMay 24, 2008
Celebrated law expert Paul Ohm suggests that cable companies and other ISPs might be breaking the federal wiretap law by doing deep packet inspection. But the same kinds of deep inspection that Ohm decries is also used for spam and virus filtering. On the other hand, I wonder whether web mail services such as Hotmail, Yahoo! and Google would be guilty of wiretapping if they check traffic. These dilemma suggest to me that the relationship between ISPs (or mail service providers) and customers has to change, and perhaps that the wiretap statute has to adapt.
Yochai Benkler, others at Harvard map current and future Internet
By Andy OramMay 16, 2008
Harvard's world-renowned Berkman Center for Internet & Society is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a conference called Berkman@10. The center is a conglomeration of many people, both lawyers and non-lawyers, who study the Internet and add their efforts to empower its users. In my opinion, the most salient contribution of the Berkman Center is its devotion to new research instead of pure theory. I'll report here on today's sessions, which were organized as a fairly conventional symposium (although as loosely as one could run it with 450 attendees).
Book review: "The Future of the Internet (And How to Stop It)"
By Andy OramApril 14, 2008
You can read Jonathan Zittrain's book for cogent discussions of key issues in copyright, filtering, licensing, censorship, and other pressing issues in computing and networking. But you're rewarded even more if you read this book to grasp fundamental questions of law and society "The Future of the Internet" offers valuable summaries of current debates, but Zittrain also tries always to hack away at the brambles that block the end of each path.
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