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"... as a supposedly ?creative? artist I am often shocked to discover that a song I?ve written has been a blatant unconscious rip-off of somebody else?s song ..."
Posted on August 11, 2008Lea Bishop Shaver, "Defining and Measuring A2K: A Blueprint for an Index of Access to Knowledge"
Posted on August 01, 2008Send Karl Rove to Jail for Contempt of America, Decency, Humanity (or at least Congress)
Posted on July 27, 2008RIAA-supported economist taking it to the Web to protest file-sharing economic study
Posted on July 17, 2008McCain hates Social Security, Media ignores it; Limbaugh Racist goon, NYTimes forgets
Posted on July 11, 2008Laughing at Brad DeLong's Western Television Series Theme Song Memory Lapses
Posted on July 07, 2008"Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube, a US court has ruled."
Posted on July 05, 2008"Whatever happened I apologize. So dry your tears, baby, and walk outside. It's the Fourth of July"
Posted on July 03, 2008Extra! Extra! State of California Tells Teens to Dispense with Heavy and Boring Books
Posted on June 29, 2008A Dozen Things to Tell Your Elected Representative about DOPA (or Its Clones)
Posted on June 25, 2008Great news: Google creates an XML file of U.S. Copyright Office registrations, 1923-1963
Posted on June 25, 2008"One in three information technology professionals abuses administrative passwords to access confidential data such as colleagues' salary details, personal emails or board-meeting minutes, according to a survey."
Posted on June 19, 2008Looks Like It Was Never About The Porn: Kozinski Accused By Lawyer Of Lying To Court
Posted on June 14, 2008I was on PRI's "The Takeaway" this morning talking about AG Cuomo's deal with ISPs to block child porn
Posted on June 12, 2008Dan Drezner's great article on the great state of public intellectualism in America
Posted on June 11, 2008David Weinberger on the digitization of the Boston Public Library Misc. collections
Posted on June 09, 2008Should I forbid my students from surfing/IMing/playing solitaire while I teach?
Posted on May 20, 2008I question the effectiveness, not to mention the aesthetics, of this MTV Anti-Piracy Advertisement
Posted on May 18, 2008Teenager Makes Rape Accusation Via YouTube Because She Says No One Else Will Listen
Posted on May 15, 2008Rovian Analysis From Rove. On Fox, No Less, So You Might Want To Break Out The Hand Sanitizer
Posted on May 09, 2008Barbara Bennett Woodhouse, "Hidden in Plain Sight: The Tragedy of Children's Rights from Ben Franklin to Lionel Tate"
Posted on May 09, 2008"FBI Withdraws Unconstitutional National Security Letter After ACLU and EFF Challenge"
Posted on May 08, 2008There are 795 (not including Michigan and Florida, whose super delegate votes do not count) total Democratic super delegates. How many are white? How many are women?
Posted on May 06, 2008Ok. A little more Clinton Bashing over the Gas Tax Holiday and the "problem" with economists
Posted on May 06, 2008Luis Vuitton Upset about Use of Trademarked Goods in Darfur Awareness Campaign
Posted on May 03, 2008"In 15 months, two dueling business coalitions have spent $4.3 million lobbying on the [patent reform] legislation, which calls for the biggest changes in United States patent law in more than 50 years."
Posted on April 29, 2008I Wake Up Each Morning Believing It Is Possible To Support Obama Without Advocating Violence Against Clinton.
Posted on April 27, 2008"Young women are growing increasingly frustrated with the fanatical support of Barack and gleeful bashing of Hillary."
Posted on April 16, 2008It was not angry bloggers or Mr. Lamont?s insurgent campaign workers who rendered Joe Lieberman's website inaccessible the day before the 2006 primary, but sheer technological ineptitude.
Posted on April 10, 2008George Mason School of Law and Microsoft Holding Womenless Patent Law Conference?
Posted on April 09, 2008Daniel Solove Asks: "Does the Roomates.com Case Affect CDA § 230 Immunity for JuicyCampus?"
Posted on April 08, 2008"When Bias is Bipartisan: Teaching About the Democratic Process in an Intellectual Property Law Republic"
Posted on April 03, 2008Did Sen. Clinton just join the "vast right-wing conspiracy" that made her life (and this country) miserable?
Posted on March 27, 2008"They honestly thought that because it appeared on the Internet it was true."
Posted on March 25, 2008Is this logo ?widely recognized by the general consuming public of the United States??
Posted on March 17, 2008Hunter College Offers "Sponsored" by the International Anticounterfeiting Coalition
Posted on March 03, 2008As I was saying: Colleges and Universities are safer than ever and safer than your workplace
Posted on February 26, 2008Scenes from Casablanca, Singin' in the Rain, and The Godfather with dialogue replaced by the cast of SpongeBob SquarePants.
Posted on February 26, 2008The Human Knowledge Project, Part 1: My Henderson Lecture at UNC-Chapel Hill
Posted on February 25, 2008A federal judge last week ordered the disabling of Wikileaks.org, a muckraking Web site.
Posted on February 23, 2008I Loved This Song In My Misspent Youth, But Dang, The Video Looks Like An Outtake From "This Is Spinal Tap"
Posted on February 14, 2008Cathy Davidson explains why humanities scholars read their papers at the podium
Posted on February 04, 2008You've Probably already seen this, but have you thought through the copyright law issues?
Posted on February 04, 2008Facebook still being irresponsible with our personal information, says UVA student
Posted on February 04, 2008Has the Library of Congress surrendered its role in standardizing how we catalog knowledge?
Posted on January 29, 2008In Front of the SC State House Dome, Underneath the Confederate Flag, Attending a Martin Luther King Day Rally, Noticing That the Only Woman Who Got To Speak Was Hillary Clinton
Posted on January 21, 2008Is Huckabee Trying To Trash MCain With Push Polls? Or is McCain Trying To Trash Huckabee With Accusations About Push Polls?
Posted on January 18, 2008The Scientist: Why aren't there more women scientists in major universities?
Posted on January 14, 2008Michael Zimmer reads Google's explanation for why it's buying DoubleClick so you don't have to
Posted on June 28, 2007
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