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Geist Blows It Again: Stay out of the business, Mr. Chips
Susan Crawford, founder of One Web Day and the recently-departed Special Assistant to President Obama for Technology and Innovation, put it this way: “I was trained in the Internet Age by people who believed that nation states were on the verge of crumbling and that anything an [ISP] wanted to do [was irrelevant]…we could geek around it.
Music Technology Policy - Monday, July 12, 2010
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Henley, DeVore file dueling briefs in copyright battle; are campaign videos fair use 'parodies' or infringing 'satires'?
Both sides in Don Henley 's lawsuit against California US Senate candidate Chuck DeVore (R) over campaign "parody" videos that used Henley's tunes set to lyrics mocking Sen. Barbara Boxer (D) have now filed cross-motions for summary judgment, teeing up a case that will likely clarify the rules for political uses of third-party material. See , e.
Copyrights & Campaigns - Saturday, April 24, 2010
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Yahoo!: Defender of Privacy Rights
and the Department of Justice illustrates just how far the government can go in requiring third-party Internet service providers (ISPs) to disclose the email conversations of its users. To provide a bit of background, the discovery of emails stored by ISPs is generally governed by the Stored Communications Act. Image Source.
JetLawBlog - Friday, April 23, 2010
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  • New Anti-Piracy Approach May Strike Out with Lawmakers and ISPs
    Although lawsuits by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) against Internet users suspected of illegal file-sharing have gained widespread publicity in recent years, people seeking to share and download free music online may soon face a new type of obstacle. 8211; Erica Youngstrom. Image Source.
    JetLawBlog - Wednesday, March 25, 2009
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  • French Assembly Just Says "Non" To Internet Piracy Bill
    The French National Assembly has rejected an Internet piracy bill that would have allowed ISPs to turn off service to users who download material illegally. Many legislators failed to turn up for the vote, which turned out to be 21-15
    Media Law Prof Blog - Thursday, April 9, 2009
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  • The ISP as Speaker and Conduit
    Rob Frieden, Pennsylvania State University, College of Communications, and Dickinson College of Law, has published "Invoking and Avoiding the First Amendment: How Internet Service Providers Leverage Their Status as Both Content Creators and Neutral Conduits." Here is the abstract.
    Media Law Prof Blog - Tuesday, June 30, 2009
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  • Eyes of Tech World on Obama’s Pick for FCC Chairman
    Indeed, according to Network World columnist Johna Till Johnson, the decisions that Genachowski will make over the next few years could decide the very “fate of the Internet.&#. Genachowski has worked as Chief Counsel to former FCC chairman Reed Hundt and has served on the board of directors for various Internet companies.
    JetLawBlog - Tuesday, January 20, 2009
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  • ISPs: The new police on the virtual streets…
    law are adding to pressures to turn Internet service providers into cops examining all Internet traffic for child pornography.&# ( Source ) The story states that. The law requiring ISPs to monitor such files easily passed Congress and was signed into law by President Bush last week, Read the full story here. According to MSNBC.
    Entertainment Law - Tuesday, October 21, 2008
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  • New Op-Ed
    Rick Carnes and I co-wrote an op-ed on ISP music licensing (as exemplified by the Choruss operation) for Content Agenda that might be of interest. The point (which I made in more detail in a recent article for the ABA) is that users are already paying for the very Internet connection they use to buy their music from legitimate services.
    Music Technology Policy - Tuesday, December 30, 2008
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  • The Dual Nature of the ISP As Speaker and Conduit
    Rob Frieden, Pennsylvania State University College of Communications, & Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law, has published "Invoking and Avoiding the First Amendment: How Internet Service Providers Leverage Their Status as Both Content Creators and Neutral Conduits." Here is
    Media Law Prof Blog - Wednesday, July 29, 2009
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  • Things We Are Running Out of Besides Oil: IP Addresses
    The same may be true of Internet Protocol addresses (IP addresses), the number strings that identify specific locations on the Internet. It involves the adoption of a new Internet protocol, IPv6. Tags: Internet How many unique addresses are there in the current 32-bit "address space" in the IPv4 protocol?
    New Media and Technology Law - Monday, July 28, 2008
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  • ISPs Immunity from Contributory Trademark Infringement in Question after Ninth Circuit Decision
    BY: Simon Riveles Until recently courts have consistently found internet service providers (ISPs) immune from contributory intellectual property infringement claims based on the ISP’s hosting of a website selling counterfeit or infringing goods. In July 2008, for example, in T iffany, Inc. eBay, Inc., 576 F. 2d 463 (S.D.N.Y
    BizMediaLaw - Wednesday, October 7, 2009
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  • ISPs, RIAA, the DMCA, 'graduated response,' and 'three strikes': the real story
    The worldwide conflagration over "graduated response" and "three strikes" copyright enforcement proposals -- on which fire was thrown last week by conflicting reports of US ISPs' cooperation with the RIAA -- has, unsurprisingly, been marked by confusion and incorrect statements of the law. Under graduated response, the ISP "graduates" -- i.e.
    Copyrights & Campaigns - Sunday, March 29, 2009
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