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.
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.
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.
Copyfight is provoking me, in a friendly way, to comment on the proposed dilution revision bill. EFF is soliciting opposition to the bill. I honestly have been too wrapped up with client work to comment meaningfully.
My initial reaction to EFF’s hypo regarding UPS suing Brown’s Record Store may be off the mark,. UPS’s rights
The situation for Google in France gets a little worse. An appellate court in this decision rules against Google for selling keywords. One EEC colleague speculates that Google may have a hard time receiving any joy from the European Court of Justice and that its hopes will rest on the French Supreme Court. The translated
