Monday, March 13, 2006 at 11:36AM Appellate lawyers know well the indispensable role of partial failures of technology in modern jurisprudence. [Via fool in the forest, via Blawg Review #48's pocket part.] Also notable: blawg-rich citations to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Friday, March 10, 2006 at 11:06AM I see my colleague Peter Raymond was speaking at SES last week. Hot topic, anyone blog it? From the panel description:
Practical Copyright & Trademark Guidance for Webmasters and SEMs
Your competitor is bidding on your trademarked name. Some splogger is profiting off of your copyrighted work via RSS ("really simple stealing"). And now image search has enabled the proverbial "kid in his basement" to rip off your high-end web designs. What's a law abiding netizen to do?
[Update:] Bill Slawski comes through with Search Engine Roundtable's write up of the session.
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Friday, March 10, 2006 at 9:32AM Does the Media Law Resource Center list of Libel and Related Lawsuits Against Bloggers support Charlene Li's statement, as quoted by Shel Israel in his excellent post on IP, Blogs, eMail & Fear of Flying, that there has not yet been a suit involving a corporate blog? I'm assuming the list is consistent with Charlene's research, but have not yet had time to check. If you'd like to do so before I can get around to it, please do (and please let me know, it will help me get ready for an upcoming talk). [Thanks Dennis for the heads up.]
Wednesday, March 8, 2006 at 4:15PM Dan Gillmor: "The 'Daily Me' [roll your own news] is just about here, but I'm more interested in the 'Daily We' [community filters]." Me, I love community filters. But I also agree with Robert Scoble. Guess that makes me a devotee of the Daily Me-We. Dan says to check out SourceWatch — so do.
JD Lasica quoted this great line line from Terry Heaton to sum up Media 2.0: "The deer now have guns."
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Monday, March 6, 2006 at 4:39PM I didn't blog from last week's New Communications Forum because my son recently tweaked my PowerBook's hinges so badly the repair is cost-prohibitive, and I'm waiting for one of these. But over at Between Lawyers I just posted my reaction to the prevalent atmosphere of legal trepidation I encountered; namely, I'm pretty sure blogs are a corporate risk management team's dream come true, rather than their worst nightmare. I'll try to dribble out the rest of my pertinent notes, and other people's pertinent quotes, over the next several days.
For now, I'll just:
—mention a couple of provocative suggestions from Dan Gillmor on the enormous and continually growing impact of citizen media:
Imagine if Dealey Plaza had happened today...
Imagine if the people on the planes on September 11 had been sending pictures...
—highlight some new additions to my reading and listening repertoire:
—and marvel at the fact that although I took two one-way flights to and from the Bay Area (used two different airlines), I didn't get tagged for secondary screening on either leg of the trip.
(Don't miss Adam Curry's wrap up of his Dutch court case involving interpretation and application of Creative Commons licenses for Flickr photos. And check out the International Technology Law Association and its blog. Looks like I'll be speaking on blogs and IP at their upcoming annual meeting.)
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