Copyright Law

Outrageous

Posted on June 10, 2010
I happened to see this item on Above the Law today: It's Time For Another Round of Tuition Hikes: "The [Brooklyn Law School] Finance Committee has approved the following tuition schedule for the 2010-2011 academic year: Full-Time: 2 & 3F:...

Two quick internet policy links

Posted on June 10, 2010
Susan Crawford presented Rethinking Broadband at Personal democracy Forum '10, which is a brief overview and introduction to the current state of communications policy, the major policy questions and the interests of the various players. A very worthwhile and quick...

American Needle

Posted on May 26, 2010
Here's the Supreme Court ruling in American Needle v. National Football League (08?661)...

The FCC's Third Way

Posted on May 06, 2010
In the wake of the Comcast decision, the FCC today announced its "Third Way" framework towards regulating broadband. Statement by Chairman Genachowski, The Third Way: A Narrowly Tailored Broadband Framework: "The consensus view reflects the nature of the Internet itself...

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Comcast v. FCC linkdump

Posted on April 12, 2010
Here are a few notable reactions to the DC Circuit's Comcast v. FCC ruling last week: Marvin Ammori, How I Lost the Big One, Bigtime, "I'll begin with how the decision affects you: it's really bad news for you and...

Comcast and the Information Service/Common Carrier Classification

Posted on April 07, 2010
Yesterday, in an already widely discussed decision, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled that the FCC does not have the authority to regulate network management practices under its ancillary jurisdiction. Comcast Corp. v. Federal Communications Comm'n...

What does this mean for domain names?

Posted on January 25, 2010
Sam Grobart, New York Times Bts Blog, A Is for Amazon, B Is for Best Buy: "On the Web, there's another way a single letter can enhance a company's prestige. Go to Google's home page or browser toolbar and type...

Clinton on Internet Freedom

Posted on January 22, 2010
Secretary of State Hilary Clinton: Remarks on Internet Freedom, "On their own, new technologies do not take sides in the struggle for freedom and progress, but the United States does. We stand for a single internet where all of humanity...

Google, China and Democracy

Posted on January 13, 2010
The internet can be a tool to promote democracy and access to information can be a powerful tool. In the same respect protecting profit at the cost of freedom is a choice that most companies are happy to make. Google...

Search Neutrality

Posted on December 28, 2009
In The New York Times, Adam Raff (no relation that I'm aware of) wrote an Op-Ed arguing that the FCC should regulate "search engine neutrality," Search, but You May Not Find Today, search engines like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft's new...

Blawg Review #240

Posted on November 30, 2009
or, My Name is My Name! Blawg Review's Editor asked me to host today's Blawg Review because today, November 30, is St. Andrew's Day. And given the speed with which Blawg Review's Editor forwarded along this list of other law...

This post is a tribute to the greatest post in the blog

Posted on October 13, 2009
If a tribute band uses choreography that's so original that it can deserve copyright protection on its own, what does that say about how good the tribute band is as a tribute band? ACES - Four Tops & Motown Tribute...

Franken on Net Neutrality

Posted on October 12, 2009
I missed the Future of Music Policy Summit this year, but Senator Al Franken gave a keynote address that summarizes concisely the key concerns about the need for net neutrality, framed in terms of a First Amendment free speech concern...

Tasty, Tasty Sausage

Posted on September 24, 2009
This story about the natural gas industry losing out to dirtier fossil fuels in the energy bill on NPR's Morning Edition demonstrates the fundamental problem with Federal policymaking today, With Little Clout, Natural Gas Lobby Strikes Out: "[Former Senator Tim]...

FCC Set to Adopt Open Internet Rules

Posted on September 23, 2009
In a speech on Monday at the Brookings Institution, new FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski proposed that the FCC adopt a stronger position and be more actively involved in regulating an open Internet. To date, the Federal Communications Commission has addressed...

Teaching Copyright

Posted on September 17, 2009
According to the program's web site, Music Rules is "a free educational program designed to encourage respect for intellectual property and responsible use of the Internet among students in grades 3-8." At Ars Technica, Nate Anderson takes a look at....

This one goes to eleven

Posted on August 11, 2009
As a 14 year old, Coleman Hickey made a stop-motion music video of Spinal Tap's "Tonight I'm Going to Rock You, Tonight" using Legos. The New York Times reports that Spinal Tap sought to include the video on a new...

Accountability and the Public Option

Posted on July 24, 2009
In the New York Times Magazine this past week, Peter Singer writes about health care rationing and determining the value of health care. Why We Must Ration Health Care. Towards the end, Singer writes, "Will Americans allow their government, either...

If you really want to hear about it

Posted on July 01, 2009
The NYT City Room blog reports that J.D. Salinger won a preliminary injunction in his lawsuit against the writer of , Judge Rules for Salinger in Copyright Suit: "In a 37-page ruling filed on Wednesday, Judge Batts issued a preliminary...

The best fan video in the world?

Posted on May 15, 2009
Via Top Gear's blog, I found this link to a fan-made Top Gear style search for the beat driving road in California: The Californians were disappointed that Top Gear dismissed the entirety of North America while searching for the best...

Shatner, Montalban, iPod and Kindle

Posted on April 30, 2009
Dvice tests out the range of expression in the text-to-speech systems in the Kindle 2 and iPod Shuffle by having the two gadgets re-enact the most memorable scene from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: Good audiobook readings aren't...

A F#*&ing brilliant Supreme Court ruling?

Posted on April 28, 2009
The Supreme Court released its ruling in FCC v. Fox Television Stations, et al. (07-582), in which a 5-4 majority found that the FCC acted on a rational basis in changing its policy on fleeting expletives. In an opinion penned...

Food & Trademark News

Posted on April 23, 2009
The New York Times reports, Lawyers Enter Twitter Tempest: "Mr. Rucinsky, a 30-year-old part-time art dealer who uses his middle name as his last name when he writes, sends silly blurbs on Twitter and writes inane blog postings that purport...

Is Internet TV the Future?

Posted on March 27, 2009
HDnet's Mark Cuban and Boxee's Avner Ronen have had an interesting public dialog about the future of TV: a lively debate with mark cuban. Ronen posits that viewers will flock to internet video because of the breadth of content while...

Is Internet TV the Future?

Posted on March 27, 2009
HDnet's Mark Cuban and Boxee's Avner Ronen have had an interesting public dialog about the future of TV: a lively debate with mark cuban. Ronen posits that viewers will flock to internet video because of the breadth of content while...

Subtitles and Meaning

Posted on March 24, 2009
Consumerist, Movies: Dumbed Down Subtitles Ruin US Release Of 'Let The Right One In': "What if you started to watch Let The Right One In, a highly acclaimed foreign film from last year, and you discovered the US release had...

More Kindling

Posted on March 09, 2009
Even though Amazon agreed to allow authors and publishers the right to decide whether Kindle e-books can be read aloud, here are couple more (belated) links about Kindle 2 reading e-books via text-to-speech synthesizer. LA Times, Amazon Kindle 2 makes...

Remix Revisited

Posted on February 27, 2009

Fitter, Happier, More Productive

Posted on February 27, 2009

Preparing for the Post-TV World

Posted on February 22, 2009
Thanks to the signing of the DTV Delay Act, television broadcasters continue to send out their sweet, sweet analog signals a full week after the original cutoff date. And those broadcasters will continue to broadcast both analog and digital signals...

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