“[2] It is undisputed that Liberty Media is a distributor of lawful, albeit hardcore, pornography, and the Motion Picture is itself hardcore pornography. Notably, it is a matter of first impression in the First Circuit, and indeed is unsettled in many circuits, whether pornography is in fact entitled to protection against copyright infringement. Copyright protection [...]

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From the Shanghai Daily News:
A HONG Kong design student’s tribute to Steve Jobs that generated a buzz online following the death of the co-founder of Apple last week is not original, the teenager said yesterday.
Jonathan Mak, 19, said he was not the first to come up with the design that fits Jobs’ silhouette into the [...]

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But I don’t have any interest in “liking” or “friending” TUMS on Facebook, unlike over 45,000 other Facebook users (at last count). I am not going to help TUMS further monetize indigestion via “a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers.”
TUMS is also on Twitter.

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Despite the ubiquity of the Internet, people still do a lot of traveling in meet space, and we aren’t always happy about that. Today I ran across a list of The 19 Most Hated Companies in America. If you fly often, or at all actually, it will not surprise you to learn that four of [...]

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Daniel Solove is garnering a lot of positive attention for an essay he published in the Chronicle of Higher Education to promote his new book.
It was republished in part here, here and here and no doubt other places as well.  The thesis of the essay is that privacy is important even to people who have [...]

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Check out paragraphs 15 through 17 of David Nimmer’s declaration on behalf of Warner Brothers in the Mike Tyson tattoo case. Nimmer admits in paragraph 15 that he “used to” think tattoos were eligible for copyright protection and “even posited one line to that effect in a footnote” in his copyright treatise. But now he [...]

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That’s the name of this college kid crafted music blog. Enjoy!

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Via BoingBoing:
“Citation Advantage of Open Access Legal Scholarship”
James M. Donovan
University of Kentucky College of Law Library
Carol A. Watson
University of Georgia Law School
UGA Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-07
Abstract:
To date, there have been no studies focusing exclusively on the impact of open access on legal scholarship. We examine open access articles from three [...]

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Hilarious!

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The University of South Carolina School of Law is looking for visitors in the following subject areas for next academic year. Depending upon matches to needs, the visits will be either a semester or a year.
Constitutional Law (fall)
Wills, Trusts & Estates (fall)
Criminal Law (fall)
Evidence (fall)
Intellectual Property (either semester or possibly a year)
Corporate (either semester, possibly [...]

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One year in 2 minutes from Eirik Solheim on Vimeo.

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After 13 months of use, my Android One started failing badly. I took it to a Verizon office and was told that a “hard boot” might fix the glitches; it would wipe out all my data, but since that was backed up by Google, this wouldn’t be a problem. I alerted the Verizon person to [...]

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The “Bed Intruder” phenomenon has generated a lot of commentary, plus a hit song. More recently Dobson made a commercial for the Sex Offender Tracker App, which uses GPS and your current location to pinpoint the addresses of sexual offenders in your immediate area.

As Technolog noted:
Expect another week of cultural controversy as we [...]

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That is the title of this article, which does a great job of laying out the pitfalls of what Jonathan Zittrain calls generativity in the context of the Droid. Most people can’t take direct advantage of the generativity themselves, and without a legal framework that gives them rights as consumers they are at the mercy [...]

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See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

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If this song can reach just one person…
(Via The SprigMan)

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