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Month: April 2004

  • Trademarks and Ad Placement

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    Dana Blankenhorn at Moore’s Lore has some interesting discussion of the lawsuit between American Blinds and Google. Here’s the background: When you do a Google search, the results page gives the search results on the left side of the page, and a few ads (marked as such) on the right edge of the page. The…

  • New, Unauthorized Sloganator

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    I wrote previously about how the remix culture will affect political discourse. A great example is the new, unauthorized version of the Bush/Cheney “Sloganator”. The original, you may recall, was on the Bush/Cheney website. It allowed you to make a campaign poster with the candidates’ names and (almost) any slogan you liked. After much hilarity…

  • U.S. Drops Ban on Editing Some Foreign Papers

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    The New York Times reports that the U.S. government has dropped it objection to U.S. people copy-editing scientific papers whose authors come from countries that are under U.S. trade embargoes. Previously, the government had interpreted such copy-editing as a violation of the trade embargoes, an offense punishable by up to ten years in prison. Though…

  • NYT on Oberholzer/Strumpf Filesharing Study

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    Today’s New York Times has a great story by John Schwartz on last week’s filesharing study and the reaction to it. There’s a nice summary of the study itself, and some discussion and criticism of it. The criticism seems to fall into two categories. One category is the appropriate scholarly caution toward a new result…

  • More on the UNC/Harvard Filesharing Study

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    Eric Rescorla offers two interesting posts on the recently released study on filesharing. First, Eric summarizes the study’s methodology. Then he discusses the implications if the study turns out to be correct that filesharing does not reduce sales.

  • In the News Today

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    Avi Rubin Joins Diebold (via Avi Rubin) RIAA Sues Google; Internet Doomed (via James Grimmelmann) Valenti Condemns Avian P2P (via me) EFF buys Department of Justice (also note: Valenti To Join EFF Board) (via EFF) Omniscience Protocol Specification Published (via Scott Bradner) Duke Buys the Public Domain (via ibiblio) Google Staffing Lunar Office (via Google)…

  • Testimony of Jack Valenti

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    Testimony of Jack Valenti Motion Picture Association of America Before the Senate Commerce Committee April 1, 2004 Mister Chairman, Last year I appeared before this committee to urge your support for the broadcast flag, a harmless technical standard necessary to stem the gruesome tide of piracy that is sapping the very lifeblood of America’s most…