I’m very pleased to announce that the fourth book in the MIT Press “Information Society Series” I am co-editing with Laura DeNardis has been released: The Digital Rights Movement: The Role of Technology in Subverting Digital Copyright Hector Postigo The…
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Just in time for the sections on intellectual property and fair use in my "Information Technology Ethics" class, the Israeli artist Kutiman released a brilliant collection of YouTube video mashups called "Thru You" (his site has been down due to…
A group of legal, cultural, and social scholars have published a "Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video", providing an important framework to help address the growing challenge of allowing fair use of online content in the…
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Alex Cameron has posted a nice essay on "The Nexus of Intellectual Privacy and Copyright" at the ID Trail Mix blog. Its opening salvo: For nearly three centuries since the enactment of the world’s first copyright statute, individuals have been…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has an excellent page summarizing the MGM v. Grokster case and a complete listing of all the supporting court documents and amicus briefs related to the case. From their page:EFF is defending StreamCast Networks, the company…
[source: The Trademark Blog]The new Google toolbar adds links to content through a function named Auto-Link. For example, it is my understanding that if an address appears on a webpage, a program in Google's toolbar can create a link from…
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