Technically Legal » Podcast http://www.technicallylegal.org Technology and the law. Done right. Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:11:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Things to come… http://www.technicallylegal.org/things-to-come/ http://www.technicallylegal.org/things-to-come/#comments Sun, 04 Dec 2011 00:42:26 +0000 David O'Brien http://www.technicallylegal.org/?p=2025 You’ve probably noticed that earlier this fall we took an abrupt hiatus that coincided with some changes on our website.  Unfortunately, one of our co-bloggers accepted a new position at a firm which, as a condition to his acceptance, politely asked him to remove public commentary on legal issues.  This isn’t an uncommon request for law firms or employers to make, as it’s important for lawyers to observe the rules of professional conduct and for law firms to maintain strong relationships with their clients.  Together we decided it best to comply with the request, rethink the basic structure of our site, and bid our co-founder good luck on his next adventure.  For the last two and a half years this site has been (and continues to be) a hobby that stands apart from our professional careers — it was an easy, but sad, decision to make.

This event also coincided with a sudden uptick of work in my own professional life, including the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) launch in October and a myriad of other interesting research projects (some of which I hope to share in the coming months).  The workload made it difficult to think about, let alone attempt, a format transition on the blog or podcast; and so, the site has been fairly dormant for the last several months.

There is, however,  some good news to share.  Since going on hiatus I’ve received a number of emails from friends and colleagues, including a handful of fellows from the Berkman Center, who want to see and participate on some new episodes of the podcast.  While there are still a number of details to hammer out, like scope and frequency among other things, I’m hopeful that we’ll bring back the show in some form in early 2012, shortly after the holidays.

Thanks for tuning in!

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ISPs agree to police their subscribers use of copyrighted content (sort of)

Ars Technica Coverage

The Official Agreement (PDF)

Apple loses motion for preliminary injunction over “App Store” mark

The Opinion (via Scrib’d)

Eric Goldman’s thoughts

 

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  • Weekly Links: April 3rd – 9th, 2011 Another busy week has already passed us by!  Here’s what’s...
    • ]]>     Zediva gets sued by several movie studios and France wants Google to save your personal information for a year (if you live in France).

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    Zediva Gets Sued by the Movie Studios

    Zediva’s new movie rental model

    Zediva gets sued by the studios

    The complaint

    Google Challenges New French Requirement to Store Personal Information For a Year, Including Passwords(?!)

    Article

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    ]]>     http://www.technicallylegal.org/episode-96-a-new-streaming-model/feed/ 0     Episode 90: Smurfberry recession? Pffft. http://www.technicallylegal.org/episode-90-smurfberry-recession-pffft/ http://www.technicallylegal.org/episode-90-smurfberry-recession-pffft/#comments Wed, 02 Mar 2011 05:52:48 +0000 David O'Brien http://www.technicallylegal.org/?p=1459 Sorry for the late post — I’ve been out of the country and Ben has been busy sharing the flu with Boston.  This week we cover the Wisconsin Statehouse, some Smurfs apps and kids (dangerous combination), and the International Music Score Library Project.

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    Wisconsin Statehouse Accused of Blocking Access to Website

    Does this smell right? Wisconsin Governor’s “new website” blacklisting

    The FTC is Worried About Kids Buying Smurfberries Using their Parents’ iPhones

    FTC is reviewing Apple’s in-app-purchase system

    The International Music Score Library Project — pretty cool.

    Free trove of music scores on web hits sensitive copyright note

    http://imslp.org

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    Apple Design Patents

    Article (via TUAW)

    Patent #s: D621848, D621849

    AT&T on Net Neutrality

    AT&T’s Statement

    Oracle (d/b/a Sun) Sues Google Over Java (N.D.CA, No. 1418106)

    Article (via Tech Crunch)

    Complaint

    Ben and David Lu!! are MIA this week.

    2^6

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    New DMCA Anti-circumvention Exemptions

    Read about it on our blog.

    U.S. Copyright Office Release

    Provisions in DMCA: 17 U.S.C. § 1201

    5th Circuit, Section 1201, and MGE v. GE, No. 08-10521 (5th Cir. 2010)

    Read about it on Ars Technica

    5th Circuit’s Opinion

    Flash cookies: Valdez, et al. v. Quntcast, MySpace, Hulu, NBC, ESPN, et. al

    Read about it on Ars Technica

    Complaint (courtesy of Wired)

    In other news, Ben and David Lu!! are traveling around the country and had to miss this week’s recording.  Also, audio quality might be a little poor (some nasty background noise and a few bad audio splices while editing); apologies in advance.

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