Jim Moore has received a cease and desist letter from Viacom for a home video that he shot. (I love Jim, but the video’s pretty bad. Highly unlikely to be affecting any market that Viacom cares about, among other things.) The DMCA’s Section 512 has a provision that allows for counter-notification for people, like Jim, … Read more
Here’s the syllabus for my fall freshman seminar, called the “Law of the Internet,” taught at Harvard College, in H20 Playlist form. Comes with an OPML output, too. (Wondering what H20 is? Check out Go With the Flow.)
There’s a remarkable and worthwhile thread forming over at Shelley Powers’ Burningbird blog after her post on RSS and copyright. I don’t agree with everything written there, but it’s a fascinating back-and-forth, and features two posts (at least) from Denise Howell, which alone makes it worth the read. It strikes me as just the kind … Read more
Urs Gasser, having left us and taken up his new post as a prof at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, writes in about the newly proposed EU IPR enforcement directive. (The proposal itself is here.) Prof. Dr. Gasser’s take-away: “Personally, I agree with the draft Directive’s objective to fight organized IP crimes and … Read more
Tonight, four students in ILC are presenting their reaction papers to our I&S conference in December. Charlie Nesson has his Red Sox cap on. * What are the relationships between blogging and television? Susie Lindsay, the first presenter, says that blogs were mentioned a total of four times over the course of three entire conferences … Read more
Two HLS students, both in Cyberlaw and the Global Economy and very up to speed on these issues, are writing about digital media — Tim Armstrong (also here, from Tim) and Aaron Kotok. Stay tuned.
Today, the Berkman Center is hosting a CEO roundtable for leaders of VoIP concerns talking about getting net (and voice) access to the next billion people, organized in conjunction with VON. Daniel Berninger is the convener. He’s assembled a wonderful crew. Hard questions: * When will the latency be low enough from end-to-end on the … Read more
In the online debate about citizen bloggers, journalists and the NH primary, Dave Winer has posted his reply to MSNBC‘s Jon Bonne. Also: it’s true: Dave Winer will be with us at the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School for another year. Resident fellows at the Berkman Center usually stay for only one academic year, but we’re … Read more