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- Six more of the best WordPress plugins
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- How to write attributions for the Creative Commons licensed images you use on your blog
  Posted on 2010-01-07 11:00:11
- Yelp sued, argues lawsuit is without merit
  Posted on 2010-02-26 18:49:54
- Dear Starbucks and AT&T: fix your WiFi!
  Posted on 2010-02-07 08:00:19
- Escaping the Kindle lock-box is now easier for authors and publishers
  Posted on 2010-01-21 11:36:30
- Law school is harder than grad school
  Posted on 2009-12-22 08:45:15
- Are universities about selling information?
  Posted on 2010-03-07 09:50:25
- Is scientific peer review censorship?
  Posted on 2010-02-28 13:30:29
- Yelp sued, argues lawsuit is without merit
  Posted on 2010-02-26 18:49:54
- Are books -- electronic or not -- becoming "fringe media"?
  Posted on 2010-02-21 10:15:37
- Six more of the best WordPress plugins
  Posted on 2010-02-20 10:30:33
- Wait, Second Life still exists? And universities still use it?
  Posted on 2010-02-19 12:43:09
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- 0February 8, 2010
  You do not get an "A for effort" with copyright
  
  In reaction to claims that copyright exists to protect creators because of the effort they've put into their work, Techdirt points us to a Supreme Court case that clearly says otherwise. History and precedent back it up.
- 2August 21, 2009
  The case of the disappearing case law
  
  The cloud consists of data and services that live on someone else's servers. Although the term itself is new(ish), the basic idea is embodied by traditional legal research services like LexisNexis and Westlaw -- data…
- 0February 8, 2010
  You do not get an "A for effort" with copyright
  
  In reaction to claims that copyright exists to protect creators because of the effort they've put into their work, Techdirt points us to a Supreme Court case that clearly says otherwise. History and precedent back it up.
- 0February 8, 2010
  You do not get an "A for effort" with copyright
  
  In reaction to claims that copyright exists to protect creators because of the effort they've put into their work, Techdirt points us to a Supreme Court case that clearly says otherwise. History and precedent back it up.
- 0May 11, 2009
  Are Westlaw and LexisNexis simply selling "free" information?
  
  Image by mattlary via Flickr Minneapolis News — Westlaw rises to legal publishing fame by selling free information: West makes its money by selling free, public information — specifi�…
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- 0June 18, 2009
  Third-party copyright liability & freedom of speech
  
  Alfred C. Yen of Boston College recently posted A First Amendment Perspective on the Construction of Third Party Copyright Liability on SSRN:…
- 0June 29, 2009
  Disruption and change in publishing
  
  Michael Nielsen wrote a stellar piece dealing with disruptive changes that doom old business models: newspapers and science publishers, to mention his examples. He does a particularly good job at explaining how this…
- 0March 22, 2009
  Got an Hour? Create a Server in the Cloud
  
  Image via Wikipedia From the “keeping up with technology” department comes this: Got an Hour? Create a Server in the Cloud — ReadWriteWeb: Dave Winer yesterday announced EC2 for Poets, a step-…
- 0July 23, 2009
  Should there be no copyright for academic publications?
  
  Worth reading and considering is a new draft article by Professor Steven Shavell that proposes abolishing copyright on academic works.
- 0July 10, 2009
  Openness and the social web
  
  A recurring theme for me is the difficulty of keeping markets "open," in the sense of empowering customers and users with information and choice, while still permitting businesses to grow and innovate.
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