Lessons from the Front: Yale Blog Conference
John Hiler of Microcontent News: Blogging is addictive.
David Gallagher of Lightning Field and the New York Times: bloggers should not write about stories in progress.
Instapundit's Glenn Reynolds carries libel insurance.
Denise Howell of Bag and Baggage: If people, by reading your blog, can see your expertise in an area, they'll turn to you.
Jenny Levine of The Shifted Librarian: the next step will be RSS where you trust a site enough to let your aggregator gather information from it (it was then reported that Jenny aggregates 170 sites).
November 22, 2002
Now Playing: Revenge of the Blogs
Head over to here, here, here and here for updates throughout the day re: Yale's Revenge of the Blogs Conference featuring Jenny the Shifted Librarian, Denise of Bag and Baggage, Donna Wentworth of Copyfight and many more.
Blawger News
via John of WeirdOfTheNews, a blawger inspired by Rick Klau's How I Learned to Love the Blog article, and one who it seems (from his links) will take a twisted humor look at the law: "The AP reports that many newly minted lawyers have so much debt that they can't afford to work in public service or for the government. But private sector jobs may not be there... Outlook: grim."
November 20, 2002
Seventh Circuit Prophesies
7th Circuit Judge Richard Posner warns of an "enormous expansion" of intellectual-property law -- criticizing both extending the duration of copyrights' term and the granting of "very questionable" business method patents.
DMCA: What Can We do?
Adam C. Engst provides a summary of recent arguments against the Digital Millenium Copyright Act in his The Evil That Is the DMCA article as well as an excellent collection of resources while Denise Howell tells us that the US Copyright Office is again allowing us to comment on the DMCA, but warns us not to behave like a pack of howler monkeys. Also, I'd appreciate if anyone has any comments on a paper that I'm in the early stages of preparing regarding this topic: Digital Millenium Copyright Act v. Public Use: Are Constitutional Safeguards Insufficient in an Era of Industry Lobbying.
Update: Comments up! [Wired]
November 19, 2002
Practitioners Confounded by SUCKS.com Panel Decision
You file a UDRP complaint. The respondent fails to answer. WIPO issues a certification of default. Home run, right? Wrong. A panel has decided that Asda Group Limited of the UK cannot stop a disgruntled former employee from using the "asdasucks.net" domain name despite the fact that the "respondent" never responded to the complaint. The panel found that the domain name that "contained a selection of material directed at the management of the Complainant, which can only sensibly be described as scandalously and disgustingly abusive," was not confusingly similar to the "asda" trademark.
Martin Schwimmer and Eric Sinrod have also weighed in on the case.
Copy Pirates Say Keep Out
Gigalaw is reporting that many web sites which offer pirated movies and wares have adopted a very similar disclaimer telling the law enforcement authorities that by entering the site they are violating the Internet Privacy Act. Only problem according to Bruce Lehman, president of the International Intellectual Property Institute, is that there is no "Internet Privacy Act."
Maybe they should just require registration and acceptance of terms of service to enter their sites, as the Los Angeles Times does.
November 17, 2002
Harry Potter Bootleg
Warner Brothers reported earlier this week that a pirated version of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was made available online by file traders prior to the film's release, however, it seems that a text version of the film has been available for years. [via SNL]
Kevin J. Heller, Esq.
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