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Monthly Archives: April 2011
Unreasonable Search and Seizure, Michigan Edition
Good morning, Big Brother! ACLU Seeks Records about State Police Searches of Cellphones: The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan urged the Michigan State Police (MSP) today to release information regarding the use of portable devices which can be used more »
Posted in ARTICLEPOST, Beyond, Home, Tech & Internet
Tagged ACLU, cell phone, civil rights, constitution, fourth amendment, Michigan, police, search, seizure
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We are Law Students, Hear us Whimper (quietly…in the corner…from beneath a pile of study aids)
It’s that time again. You’ll have to forgive us for any lack of cutting-edge, mindblowing, and/or lifechanging content over the next few weeks. Finals are upon us, which means it’s time to panic start studying those outlines we started at more »
YouTube’s Copyright School
YouTube has created this Nickelodeon-esque cartoon video to educate content pirates (arrrr) about copyright infringement. In the four-and-a-half minute lesson, the image below is how fair use is described. It’s all true, sure, but my question is, what happens when more »
Posted in ARTICLEPOST, Arts & Entertainment, Home, Intellectual Property, Media, Tech & Internet
Tagged cartoons, fair use, google, infringement, internet, lawyers, mashups, parody, piracy, remix, YouTube
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Define “Television”
There is a lot of hoopla surrounding Time Warner Cable’s iPad app, which allows TW subscribers (who also subscribe to TW’s broadband internet), to watch live TV on their iPads. Before they could see if there might be any benefit more »
Posted in ARTICLEPOST, Home, Intellectual Property, Media
Tagged cable, declaratory judgement, discover, fox cable, HD, iPad, lazy, streaming, television, timewarner, tv, viacom
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Fair Use Fixes
The general census from copyright scholars, and virtually everyone except the Big Copyright Lawyers, is that copyright law today is all screwed up. You hear a lot about how the Big Bad RIAA and the devilish MPAA spend tens of more »
Posted in ARTICLEPOST, Home, Intellectual Property
Tagged copyright, DMCA, fair use, infringement, intellectual property, Lessig, Litman, remix, transformativeness
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This Time, Big Brother Was Actually Watching
You know your business has jumped the shark when you get busted for serious safety violations by a government bureaucrat sitting on his couch watching Spike TV: Mine in TV Show “Coal” Gets Fined for Endangering Miners The first episode more »
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My Network is Your Network
AT&T and Verizon just got Chevron‘d: AT&T, Verizon Forced to Let Rivals Use Networks for Data AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless must let smaller competitors use their networks for mobile Internet service under rules approved today by a divided Federal more »