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March 26, 2002 – 12:00 am

Another law blogger I’m reading regularly is Larry Stanton, Jr.’s. Larry’s interested in the same areas I was when I was a graduate student in Economics (oh, so many years ago).

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www.lawmeme.org

March 26, 2002 – 12:00 am

Jenny, the Shifted Librarian, mentions Law Meme, a collaborative Weblog run out of the Yale Law School. It’s going in my rotation.

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[ via Scripting News ] Michael Fraase on big media’s contempt for anyone, well, who isn’t them:
Let me point out that I am a copyright owner, as is everyone else who has ever created a work in tangible form. That’s all authors, for short. Authors are almost never members of the entertainment industry club. The [...]

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Notes from Larry Lessig’s Talk at Stanford

February 20, 2002 – 12:00 am

Lawrence Lessig gave a talk on IP and the Commons today at Stanford. I’ve put my notes from the talk on my other website. I missed the first part of the talk because I had to get a Filemaker server back up… grr.

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Copyright Fight Deck

February 10, 2002 – 12:00 am

[ via Tom W. ] How about a card game where you fight to control the rights to all of humanity’s works? RIAA, I choose you!

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US develops alergy to drug patents

October 18, 2001 – 12:00 am

Intellectual property is sacred if it’s Metallica [ it's two 'l's, thanks Mark ] CDs or drugs to combat HIV in developing nations. But when anthrax is afoot at home, the US government wants Bayer to give up its patent on the antibiotic CIPRO.

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Secret Sauce and Development vs. Marketing Needs

July 1, 2001 – 12:00 am

There’s a discussion about secrets, development, and marketing at PeterMe. It was prompted by KnowNow’s recent spate of press releases. Too much secrecy stiffles development, and Peter thinks it helped contribute to the fall of Interval Research. However, the comments on the piece reveal that customers like the idea of a “secret sauce” even if [...]

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The GPL and Buddhist ethics

June 25, 2001 – 12:00 am

Hum, a self-described Buddhist says that he cannot GPL his code because it places obligations on the users of that code. A self-described Christian says that’s bunk. Interestingly, the religous context of the node is really BSD v. GPL.

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Linus on the MS Shared Source Speech

May 4, 2001 – 12:00 am

Dan Gillmore asked Linus Torvalds for his reaction to MS’s policy speech yesterday.
I’d rather listen to Newton than to Mundie. He may have been dead for almost three hundred years, but despite that he stinks up the room less.

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Notes from IBM’s CPRM Lecture at Stanford on 4-APR-2001

April 5, 2001 – 12:00 am

[ via Slashdot ] QuantumG put up notes on IBM’s talk on the dreaded CPRM at Stanford yesterday. This looked to be a damage control effort on IBM’s part from the description in Stanford’s announcment:
Recently, articles have appeared in the press that CPRM will be
standardized on all PC hard drives. This has fueled Orwellian mages [...]

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The Music Industry Spy Platform

March 23, 2001 – 12:00 am

[ via The Register ] An article at 7AM News reports on what is claimed to be the recording industry’s tool for monitoring Napster and IRC file sharing.

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We need a Sierra Club for the Internet

February 1, 2001 – 12:00 am

Tim O’Reilly says that with all the ‘land grabs’ we need a Sierra Club for the Internet. Maybe someone can write about Jay Walker and Eben Moglen arguing about patents while floating down the Charles River.

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Federal Circuit rules against “Land Grab” Patent Claims

December 5, 2000 – 12:00 am

The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the court established in 1982 to handle appeals of Patent and other federal level litigation, has made a ruling which weakens the claims a patent holder can make against rivals. This has to do with the Doctrine of Equivalents, which says that a patent holder can claim [...]

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Napster status

July 26, 2000 – 12:00 am

Is Paris burning?

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New World Order throws Christians offline

July 20, 2000 – 12:00 am

[ via Slashdot ] An administrative judge appointed by the WIPO ordered the owner of Corinthians.com, a site that as you’d expect publishes the contents of Corinthians I and II from the New Testament, to give the domain to a Brazilian soccer team of the same name. The judge, an Argentinian, played the role of [...]

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