This is a default category that holds all the entries that I have failed to categorize properly! I hope to get this list down to zero over time.
How many hard-drives of reporters and bloggers this morning contain variants of the following, pre-written, anticipating: “Today, the United States Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited ruling in the Grokster case, holding that… This opinion marks a watershed in the epic battle over peer-to-peer file-sharing. Its effects on innovation will be far-reaching. Experts said they … Read more
For those who want to pose a question to Charlie Nesson or the class as part of the Socratic dialogue on Digital Discovery, here’s the URL to do so.
I am building an aggregator for those blogging iLaw 2005. Please let me know by e-mail at jpalfrey AT law.harvard.edu. -JP
The guru of the cyberlaw business just said that Zittrain has rendered all of what came before useless. zTheory, as it’s now called, instantly coined, is everything that lies ahead — and which is the substantive underpinning of iLaw X (and so on). It is always fun to hear the famous four modes of regulation … Read more
Jonathan Zittrain, witty and clever as always, is leading off the iLaw program with a session on the future of the Internet. (Also blogged here by Irina as well as Herkko and generally at Deborah Elizabeth Finn’s.) 1) JZ starts with North Korea. Fighting against the pressures of the Internet, the ultimate radio. Back to … Read more
We are here in the Langdell North (Vorenberg) classroom at Harvard Law School for the beginning of iLaw. It’s a fun time: while a course that provides a packed substantive tour of Internet law, it is at once something of a social event, something also of a reunion of people who have worked on these … Read more
We at the OpenNet Initiative released our study on Iran today. Of the states that we have studied, Iran has one of the world’s most sophisticated Internet censorship regimes. Iran has demonstrated its commitment to extensive Internet filtering through the targeting of weblogs, particularly those written in Farsi, the local language. The state blocks political, … Read more
The LA Times has a very interesting story on the law suits by big entertainment companies against one of the dirt-floored businesses in central Los Angeles that sells pinatas in the image of characters subject to copyright and trademark protections. I am quoted in that story as saying that a group of large entertainment companies have … Read more
Iran chooses a new president today. Follow Hoder‘s journey back home to cover the election.
It seems as though Michael Geist‘s columns in The Star have angered the CRIA. Prof. Geist deserves huge praise for his apparently boundless efforts on behalf of innovation and openness on the Internet. His motives seem as true and honest as they could be — those of a genuinely curious and committed scholar who cares … Read more