Thursday, June 23, 2005

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The fan fiction discussion is now available as a mp3 file here . I come in near the end, about 3/4 of the way through. It was an interesti...
Monday, June 13, 2005

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Still hoping for an archived source for the Open Source radio show, which was quite interesting -- we spent more time on Star Trek fandom th...

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Naomi Novik and Francesca Coppa, two very smart women, will be talking about fan fiction on Open Source Radio tonight from 7-8, as noted he...
Monday, June 06, 2005

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You can be a Jedi or a Sith in the Star Wars online game, but you can't make music because of copyright concerns. So you can play a mu...
Tuesday, May 31, 2005

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Salon writes about a book on my wishlist, "Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture." As I pointed out in Copy This Essay (PDF), m...
Friday, April 01, 2005

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Google Gulp : The FAQ for Google's April 1st product suggests that Google is maybe a little sensitive about privacy and other issues rai...
Thursday, March 24, 2005

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Signal/Noise 2k5 : I will be at this conference, April 8, 2005, and I think it will be great. According to the text they sent me, "The ...
Monday, March 14, 2005

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Music videos made by soldiers in Iraq : The article discusses the legality of showing dead Iraqis under the Geneva Convention, but not the l...
Monday, February 14, 2005

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Doctor Batman : I just told my students about various trademarks that have been used as baby names in the US, including a bevy of Timberland...
Thursday, February 03, 2005

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Curiously High-Tech Hacks for a Classic Tin : Another fascinating trademark reuse problem. Altoids seems perfectly happy with all the afte...
Wednesday, February 02, 2005

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United Church of Christ News Release: SpongeBob welcomed by UCC : Is Spongebob being used in commerce? What defenses, if any, would UCC hav...
Monday, January 10, 2005

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Copyright in the Digital Workspace , a report available from the Copyright Clearance Center, has a checklist at the end suggesting why compa...

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Copy This Essay is out!
Tuesday, December 21, 2004

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Whereas the City of Heroes dispute involves a company making a product that consumers can use to emulate trademarked characters, iPod My Pho...
Wednesday, December 08, 2004

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I can sympathize with this Onion article: Son, We Need To Talk About This Supreme Court Obsession Of Yours . I got myself in some hot water ...