CITP Blog is hosted by Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy, a research center that studies digital technologies in public life. Here you’ll find comment and analysis from the digital frontier, written by the Center’s faculty, students, and friends.
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Today on Fritz’s Hit List: talking pill bottles. These pill bottles, designed as an aid to visually impaired patients, play a recorded audio message to identify themselves, so they qualify…
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Lessig's Post-Mortem on the Eldred Arguments
Larry Lessig offers an extraordinary post-mortem on this week’s Supreme Court arguments in the Eldred case. Lessig deserves our enduring thanks, and a long, peaceful vacation.
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Bricklin: Copy Protection Robs the Future
Dan Bricklin explains how copy restriction technology frustrates archiving of historically interesting works. Archivists normally preserve works by copying them; so works that can’t be copied may never be archived.…
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Fritz's Hit List #15
Today on Fritz’s Hit List: the Wallace and Gromit talking alarm clock. This alarm clock wakes its owner by playing copyrighted audio, so it qualifies for regulation as a “digital…
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Fritz's Hit List #14
Today on Fritz’s Hit List: scrolling signs. These signs display digital information, which may be copyrighted, in visual form, so they qualify for regulation as “digital media devices” under the…
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CNet Radio Interview
I’ll be interviewed on CNet Radio today, at some point between 1:30 and 2:00 P.M. Eastern time. Click here if you want to listen to a live feed.
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Fritz's Hit List #13
Today on Fritz’s Hit List: Hallmark’s “Circus Mountain Railroad” Christmas ornament. (To see it, go to Hallmark’s website and search for “circus”.) This ornament plays “Jingle Bells,” apparently from a…
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Two From Steven Levy
Two very nice articles by Steven Levy in the latest Newsweek. The first, I Was a Wi-Fi Freeloader, discusses the law and ethics of using open wireless networks. (I wrote…
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D-Day For Eldred
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court hears oral argument in Eldred v. Ashcroft, the lawsuit challenging the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act, a law that added twenty years onto the life…
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Fritz's Hit List #12
Today on Fritz’s Hit List: the Big Red Shearling Bone. This dog toy lets you record a short message to your pet, to be replayed later when you aren’t around.…