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Stanford Information Law Symposium

Though it could scarcely be more cumbersomely named — the Transatlantic Information Law Symposium — this upcoming (and free) program at Stanford Law School looks excellent, featuring such big thinkers...

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Section 230 to Twitter and others: Delete away

Community and content management don't void a site's immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Participation in an unlawful act does.

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Overly restrictive A.P. quoting guidelines risk winning battles at the war's...

Saul Hansell reports today that the Associated Press "will, for the first time, attempt to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt...

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Care to spend your holiday weekend policing directory listings?

I'm not a fan in general of sites that create a listing or profile for you, hoping you'll eventually claim and/or correct it. This tactic, neither user-centric nor user-driven, is insidious for at...

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Jennifer Leggio unpacks demand letter over "branded community"

Over at ZDNet's Feeds, Jennifer Leggio walks us through a cease and desist email she recently received. The email suggested her blog's use of the term "branded community" might constitute trademark...

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Mail Goggles: an idea that goes well beyond drunk emails

There's a new GMail Labs app: Mail Goggles, by GMail engineer Jon Perlow:When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you're really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what...

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Barack Obama is male, taken, and CC licensed

While John McCain recently complained about Google's application of the DMCA, Barack Obama has been quietly employing a Creative Commons license for his Flickr photostream.

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Video helps to quantify "fair"

American University's Center for Social Media is working to lend some certainty to the amorphous doctrine of "fair use."

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Microsoft's Bing playing fast and loose with fair use?

Microsoft's new Bing Search engine displays full length thumbnail videos -- with sound, stripped of ads. This appears to be the broadest "universal video search" yet, and may exceed the recognized...

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Napster and the "The more things change" rule

Drew Wilson at Zero Paid points out that Napster celebrates its 10th birthday this month. The Globe and Mail takes a deeper look in its Download Decade series.

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Six things to know if your Facebook username has been squatted

Mike Arrington couldn't get his name as a Facebook username when registration opened on 6/12/09. Here are six things you should know if you're in the same boat.

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Muddling through privacy and the social Web

Chief privacy officers from Yahoo!, IBM, and Comcast, as well as CDT's public policy guru, weigh in on where things stand with privacy as social network usage becomes ubiquitous.

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In Autodesk case, 9th Circuit missed better reason to bar resales

The software Timothy Vernor tried to sell was supposed to have been destroyed due to subsequent upgrades. This would have been a sounder basis for the 9th Circuit's decision than the fact the EULA...

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Another reason for ACTA caution: U.S. rightsholders as government pawns

ACTA negotiations are coming to a close, but even without it, nothing prevents repressive governments from seizing dissident computers on the pretext of infringement on U.S. copyrights. Do we really...

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Facebook ads might work, but not how they think

Facebook ads are notoriously and comically off-base. But even when they pique our interest, in today's multi-option environment they are likely to sell something for a competitor.

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Sites harvesting kids' data fly under the radar, even for the FTC

Parents routinely fear creepy online individuals, but creepy online data collection and sales practices are commonplace and rarely exposed, discussed, and considered.

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Bill would let U.S. kill allegedly infringing sites without trial, immunize ISPs

Proposed new legislation would strip domain access from sites 'dedicated to infringing activities,' cutting through the red tape of due process, sovereignty, and property rights.

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Four legal predictions for Foursquare

Checking in? Check out how law and businesses will respond to the rise of location services.

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Video Kinect: The telepresent under the tree

Easter eggs in December? When Santa brings the XBox Kinect, cheap, sophisticated video conferencing comes along for the ride.

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Touched by the TSA

Time was when having "the talk" with your kids meant the birds and the bees. Nowadays parents also have to be ready to explain shoe- and underwear-bombers, molotov toothpaste, and the touchy-feely TSA.

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