Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
I just sent the following email to the Electronic Frontier Foundation: From: Tim Lee To: membership@eff.org Subject: AOL Campaign As an EFF contributor, and I wanted to express my disappointment at EFF’s decision to expend resources publicizing its criticism AOL’s GoodMail plan. While the technical merits of the plan are debatable, I don’t really see [...]
According to news reports, Democratic Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va) is planning on trying to force the Senate Commerce Committee to include a controversial cable censorship proposal in a broad-based telecom reform bill the Committee might consider shortly. Along with Republcan Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), Rockefeller introduced S. 616, the “Indecent and Gratuitous and Excessively [...]
Jim DeLong has responded to comments on his shopping cart analogy – the idea that copying intellectual property is like taking a shopping cart – by pointing out that the marginal cost of producing a shopping cart is very low, just like the marginal cost of producing intellectual goods. His conclusion: the distinction between physical [...]
Dr. John Rutledge offers a perspective on Chinese censorship, greatly informed by his frequent travels there. An excerpt: I use the word “attempt” because, as any parent can tell you, controlling the communication of young people is impossible. That’s just as true in China as in the US. The kids there have cell phones too. [...]
I have co-authored a paper on orphan copyrights that is now out from the Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review. You can get it here (PDF). In the article we define the orphan works problem and show how it interferes with the use of creative works. We also describe the causes and costs of the [...]
Following a citation from Doug Lichtman’s latest paper on the legal implications of DRM, I found this longer paper on the legal status of self-help mechanisms. It covers a lot of the same ground, but it does so much more thoroughly, and includes some interesting examples outside the realm of high tech. I was particularly [...]
It appears that Judge Spenser flinched from issuing a BlackBerry injunction. He continued to rattle his saber, but he stopped short of ordering the network shut down. And for good reason–you don’t piss off the majority of the nation’s lawyers and business execs without consequences. Meanwhile, the patent office issued another rejection of an NTP [...]
As I write this, it’s 9:33 a.m. Eastern. I bet Tim Lee will have a post up about this (and/or this) by 9:54 a.m.
On Tuesday I participated in a very interesting roundtable discussion on the future of content regulation in a multi-media world. The event was held at Yahoo! headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA and it featured representatives from a wide variety of companies and private organizations including: Google, Microsoft, AT&T, Verizon, AOL, Yahoo!, TRUSTe, the Kaiser Family Foundation, [...]
February 13, 2012
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