IT Conversations first edition of SOUND POLICY hosted by Denise Howell (of Bag and Baggage and the project-we’re-about-to-announce fame), on everyone’s favorite tool bar function, GOOGLE AUTO-LINK.  Participants (pictured above) were novelist and IP policy advocate Cory Doctorow, RSS evangelist Robert Scoble, and me.

Remember, you do not need a pod to

New IP blog: Intellectual Property and Social Justice from UC Davis.

Slate on ‘newsmashing,’ the ability to annotate webpages, a technology which has been around a while but, argues the author, can gain new currency because of blogs.

UPDATE:  Tech Law Advisor post featuring links discussing the Slate article.

Pac-Mondrian, video game combining Pac-Man and Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie, here.  History of Pac Man here.  Broadway Boogie Woogie here.

NY Times:  Bard Neely released a video entitled “Wizard People, Dear Reader” which consisted of the muted video of “Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone” and his satirical soundtrack.  Warner Brothers protested.

You can recreate Mr. Neely’s version by playing your own copy of the movie with Mr. Neely’s soundtrack, at illegal-art.org.

Not the pile-on effect from the French keyword case, but Agence France Presse sues Google over copyright.  Via Reuters.

UPDATE: Prof. Goldman’s initial impression of the case.

NPR on Beatallica (Metallica-infused Beatle covers).

Sculpture entitled “Stairway to Freebird.”

Discussion of The Grey Album, which mixes the White Album and the Black Album.

Sort of odd story regarding Mickey Mantle estate suing bat manufacturer.

Seinfeld episode entitled The Seven.