2007

My wife dropped the big boy off at Kindergarten, I dropped the little guy at pre-school. I crossed Eighth and 23rd and an emergency vehicle took the corner exceedingly fast, the pedestrians jumping back onto the curb. One woman crossed herself and I thought “you don’t see that much anymore.” Growing up, there were people…

Leonard Lopate show on WNYC:
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Balkinization: Golan v. Gonzales — How The First Amendment Limits Copyright Law

The Tenth Circuit has handed down a very important copyright case, Golan v. Gonzales, which holds that section 514 of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act– which implements the Berne Convention on copyrights– may violate the First Amendment because it takes some materials out…