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January 12, 2006
Thank You
Well this sucks.
Evan Schaeffer was a major contributor to Blawg Review; having done both the first post and one of the best to kick off 2006.
Anyway, I just wanted to publicly express my thanks to him for all of his efforts over the past year.
Posted by Kevin Heller
January 09, 2006
Now I'm really confused
Apparently, I am not the anonymous editor of Blawg Review.
Related: Legal Underground Podcast #45
Posted by Kevin Heller
January 08, 2006
Blawg Review #39
is up at Adam Smith, Esq.: Blawg Review #39.
Related: Interviewing Adam Smith, Esq.
Posted by Kevin Heller
January 07, 2006
FactoryJoe's Action Items
EFF the RIAA [via Jason Schultz]
Posted by Kevin Heller
January 06, 2006
Law Student at the forefront of rootkit battle
via Boing Boing: "Mark Lyon, the law student who runs SonySuit.com (a clearinghouse for information about the lawsuits arising from Sony's practice of putting malicious spyware and rootkits on its music CDs) has filed a personal small claim against Sony for the damage done to his PC when he played one of the company's audio discs."
Posted by Kevin Heller
Consumerist on Yahoo! Domains
I've never been a very big fan of them either, having had my own domain nightmare with them several years ago: Consumers Speak: Yahoo! Domains Nightmare.
Posted by Kevin Heller
Telcos Two Tier Internet Plan
WFMU's Beware of the Blog is not happy about the two tiered internet system that the WSJ reported on today:
Telecom companies hope to charge Google, Vonage and other Web firms for delivery of music and movies over their networks, setting the stage for a big battle. Google and Yahoo plan to increase their offerings to mobile phones. 2:18 p.m.$ link.
Maybe WSJ.com law blog can get this moved to the free section.
Posted by Kevin Heller
Maryland Personal Injury Attorney Help Center
The Law Offices of Miller & Zois have made sample pleadings, motions and discovery materials for personal injury cases in Maryland available online. I second Carolyn Elfant in thanking them for making this information freely available -- open source as Evan Schaeffer says.
Posted by Kevin Heller
Copyright Traps
The Map Room on Copyright Traps [via The Morning News (that excellent Brooklyn daily)]
Posted by Kevin Heller
Fair Use and Media
IPcentral Weblog points to this excellent resource for documentary filmmakers from the Center for Social Media: Documentary Filmmakers Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use [pdf]
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Judicial Hellholes
Copyright the Association of Corporate Counsel. [via InhouseBlog]
Posted by Kevin Heller
Felten's 2006 Predictions
(8) Copyright issues will still be stalemated in Congress.
Read them all here at Freedom to Tinker.
Posted by Kevin Heller
One of my favorite Althouse posts ever
A government agent interrogates me about politics.
Posted by Kevin Heller
January 05, 2006
Blawg Review, my how you've grown
While Blawg Review technically does not celebrate its 1 year anniversary until April 11, 2005; it had its beginnings with techlawadvisor's Belly Up to the Bar #1 published on January 5, 2005.
Bruce MacEwen of Adam Smith, Esq. is hosting Blawg Review #39 which will be published on monday January 9, 2006. Get your Blawg Review submissions in today.
It looks like there are dates available starting in late July 2006.
I secured the May 22, 2006 spot to commemorate my 5 years of blogging.
Posted by Kevin Heller
Howard Bashman resets hitmeter for Blawg Review Awards 2005
He enjoys the Themis depictions anyhow.
Posted by Kevin Heller
10 New Year's Resolutions for Bloggers Update
I have made attempts at Resolutions 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, and 7 from Evan Schaeffer's Blawg Review #38 so far this year.
I fulfilled Resolution 9 (Don't Let Your Weblog Make You Crazy) last year and #10 (learning from other blogs) is an ongoing process.
I also hope to follow the advice of Evan re Resolution 8 (Experiment with New Weblogging Ideas) in the upcoming weeks. Stay tuned.
Posted by Kevin Heller
January 04, 2006
Blawger Anonymity Not Allowed?
I just don't care very much for the tone of this post.
I don't even know why the post bothers me this much -- I've been emailing with the anonymous editor of Blawg Review, a site on which I am a contributing editor, for over a year without hesitation or asking that Ed. be outed. I mean I ask Evan Schaeffer every so often to confirm that it's not him but otherwise...
KLexblog: if you are not interested in responding to emails from anonymous readers of your blog, who have blogs or blawgs, then tell them so. Does the fact that Blawg Review is gaining momentum somehow threaten your business model? What's the deal? I've even opened my comments for you.
Disclosure: I'm not Ed.
Update: Apparently I've broken my comments and I apologize for that. BRANDY!!!
And here's my reponse to Kevin O'Keefe's most recent posting.
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New Jersey Law: Internet & the Workplace
New Jersey Family Law blog has a post regarding misuse of your work computer, child p[]rn and privacy rights.
Posted by Kevin Heller
January 03, 2006
Wonkette & WSJ
from WSJ
The Wall Street Journal Online's new law blog -- written by Peter Lattman, a former Forbes magazine writer and previously a New York litigator -- has launched: "Queen of the blogosphere Ana Marie Cox is said to be handing over the reins at her spicy political blog Wonkette. David Lat, the federal prosecutor who revealed himself to the New Yorker magazine in November as the author of the popular "Underneath Their Robes" judicial blog, is expected to start blogging for the site."
Welcome to Peter and a Congratulations to David.
Update: Also, please note that my half of my 2006 predictions has sorta just happened.
Another Update: WaPo confirms that Ana Marie Cox[/Wonkette/Gawker Media] is turning her blog over to lawyer David Lat[aka A3G].
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January 02, 2006
Fight Goliath Campaign
Check out the Patti Santangelo Fight Goliath campaign, launched to raise money for a working mother who's fighting back against the RIAA filesharing lawsuits. [via]
If recollection serves me, Techdirt reported that she was a client of Recording Industry vs The People.
Posted by Kevin Heller
This probably qualifies as good faith registration
Chris Garnett, youth outreach coordinator for the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, changed his name to KentuckyFriedCruelty.com. [via Consumerist]
Posted by Kevin Heller
Phubar
What a great name for a blog. [via]
Posted by Kevin Heller
Blawg Review #38
Evan Schaeffer's Legal Underground presents Blawg Review #38, a
helpful list of New Year's resolutions for better blogging.
Posted by Kevin Heller
January 01, 2006
Columbia Law Library Music Plagiarism Project
TLA 8-16-02: Here is a link to The Columbia Law School Music Copyright Infringement Online Archive, which analyzes more than 100 music federal copyright infringement cases from over the last hundred (and also contains audio samples and commentary).
The Columbia Law Library Music Plagiarism Project features audio samples that compare songs that were involved in landmark copyright cases. Users can compare, for example, Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Alone Again (Naturally)" with "Alone Again" by the rapper Biz Markie, which sampled the original and lifted the lyrics.The site includes court decisions and commentary on them from the site's authors. The judge in the "Alone Again" case, the site says, missed the fact that "apart from the gibberish chanted over O'Sullivan's ostinato, there is nothing original in Biz Markie's song or his recording except his performance of it."
Other songs featured on the site include "Don't Fence Me In," "Feelings" and John Lee Hooker's "Boogie Chillun.'" For some mysterious reason, the sound files are all encoded in the RealPlayer format.
Posted by Kevin Heller
Coldplay Shrinkwraps DRM Message
Just passing this information along regarding the DRM of the new coldplay album: "Except for manufacturing problems, we do not accept product exchange, return or refund." [via boing boing] I'm interested in hearing from anyone who in fact does attempt to return it whether the record store attemtpts to enforce the terms of the shrikwrap contract.
update: more on this at Concurring Opinions [via Rob Hyndman]
Posted by Kevin Heller
Sunday Funnies
Posted by Kevin Heller
One prediction for 2006
NYT and WSJ will continue battle to be pre-eminent paper to report on blogs. NYT will turn nyt.com into a blog.
Update on 1/4/06: So I basically nailed this prediction right? WSJ.com has joined the blawgosphere and the NYT now links to related blog posts. [via Ann Althouse]
Posted by Kevin Heller
New Year, New Laws
Some new internet regulating laws taking 'ffect in California in a few hours PST [via].
INTERNET HUNTING: Prohibits use of Internet sites designed to allow people to shoot at animals via a Web link.
PHISHING: Makes it illegal to solicit or request someone's identifying information by falsely representing that the information is being requested by a business, a practice known as "phishing."
CAMPAIGN MESSAGES: Prohibits candidates from using text messaging to transmit campaign ads.
Posted by Kevin Heller
