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Google+Image via Wikipedia Consider this idea: without copyright protection for digital media, we would have even more Digital Rights Management. Why? Because without it, recouping up-front investment without restricting distribution would be difficult or impossible. Since I often see a … Continued
Yearly Archives: 2009
Rosetta Stone Files for an IPO
Image via Wikipedia Marketplace on NPR: Will this IPO translate into turnaround?: Rosetta Stone, the language software maker, is one of the few companies to file an IPO this year. With a strong market debut, will other companies follow suit? … Continued
Challenging the Strong Presumption of Patent Validity
Patent Law Blog (Patently-O): Challenging the Strong Presumption of Patent Validity One of the next major legal challenges to patent rights will be against the strong presumption of validity associated with the patent grant. Section 282 of the patent act … Continued
Social media for law students (and everyone else)
Image via CrunchBase Social media tools allow everyone, not just information technology aficionados, to create and maintain their online professional persona. They have become key tools as online research has become ubiquitous. Using Google to look up potential new hires … Continued
Jobs for new lawyers are hard to come by
Image via Wikipedia It’s no secret that the job market is in shambles, and the legal job market is really no exception. It should come as no surprise that the market is particularly tough for new graduates, people who a … Continued
10 Reasons for a Law Student to Blog
Image by TW Collins via Flickr 10. Make money fast! Hardly. Blogging may pay the bills for some, but law blogging is hardly going to pay for the coffee you need to get through the semester, much less your books. … Continued
Review of Early Spring: An Ecologist and Her Children Wake to a Warming World
Breaking the silence about Spring – RealClimate: Did you know that in 1965 the U.S. Department of Agriculture planted a particular variety of lilac in more than seventy locations around the U.S. Northeast, to detect the onset of spring – … Continued
Information as Property from the Scholarly Kitchen
I found this interesting discussion of IP today: Information, however, has properties that make it sufficiently different from physical objects to question whether the property model is a good metaphor for information. Unlike natural resources, information is non-depletable. Overuse of … Continued
Law, War, and the History of Time
Image by AlaskanLibrarian via Flickr Law, War, and the History of Time – Balkinization: I’ve posted a new paper on SSRN on a theme I’ve blogged about here and here: Law, War, and the History of Time. While I wrote … Continued
Who Are The Stevens Six?
Image via Wikipedia Who Are The Stevens Six? | TPMMuckraker: [T]hese [six Justice Department prosecutors who worked on the Ted Stevens case] are by and large career prosecutors, none of whom have obvious records of political activism on either side. … Continued
A Misguided Philosophy of Science
PrawfsBlawg: A Misguided Philosophy of Science: During my first year as a economics graduate student, I spent at most two minutes thinking about the philosophy behind empirical work. On the first day of my year-long econometrics sequence, our professor quickly … Continued
Microsoft Gets Slammed in Yet Another Patent Suit
Image via Wikipedia Microsoft Gets Slammed in Yet Another Patent Suit – Law Blog – WSJ: In what’s being billed as the fifth-largest patent award in history—and the second largest this year—a federal jury in Rhode Island on Wednesday ordered … Continued
Consumers and Copyright: Thoughts about reforming the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is much maligned, but, I think, not fully understood by very many people. Today, a visitor to our Software Law class from Microsoft presented a very good explanation of the 1998 law. He explained … Continued
Open-access policy flourishes at NIH
Image via Wikipedia Open-access policy flourishes at NIH : Nature News: One year on, advocates of free public access to scientific literature are calling a law that requires researchers at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) to make their … Continued
Indian Biogenerics on an Upswing
‘ Image via Wikipedia Patent Baristas » Indian Biogenerics on an Upswing: Indias pharmaceutical industry caters to about 30% of the world’s generic requirements. Despite its tremendous volume, it has been facing difficult times recently, with the WHO stance on … Continued
Electronic texts and rent-seeking publishers
Frightful Kindle | TPM: Finally, only a few months ago, I purged a decent chunk of my collection. And most are now in storage. But in our living room we have two big inset shelves where I keep all the … Continued
