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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Last week I had yet another DMCA debate, this time at the Chicago International Intellectual Property Conference. Afterward, I had an interesting conversation with Kathy Strandburg of DePaul Law School,…
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Fritz's Hit List #11
Today on Fritz’s Hit List: <a href="Today on Fritz's Hit List: recordable talking picture frames. These picture frames record a short message, to be replayed later on demand. Because the…
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Postings Resume This Afternoon
I’m back from an interesting trip, which gave me lots of material for posting but not much time to actually post. Regular postings will resume this afternoon, including a double…
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LawMeme's "Law School in a Nutshell"
LawMeme is running a wonderful continuing feature, written by James Grimmelmann, to teach non-lawyers, and especially techies, how to read a legal brief: Future lawyers spend three years in law…
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Garfinkel on Wireless Tags
Simson Garfinkel has an interesting short article in Technology Review about wireless tags. He advocates a sort of consumers’ bill of rights, that would protect people against being observed or…
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Fritz's Hit List #10
Today on Fritz’s Hit List: the remote controlled fart machine. When a remote control is pressed, this device emits one of five prerecorded fart noises. Because these noises are stored…
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My Testimony on the Berman-Coble Bill
Today I submitted written testimony that will be included in the record of last week’s House hearings on the Berman-Coble bill.
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Doubletalk from MediaDefender?
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that MediaDefender has been sending cease-and-desist letters to universities, identifying the IP addresses of specific computers that are alleged to be offering copyrighted movies…
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Misleading Term of the Week: "Rights"
A “right” is a legal entitlement – something that the law says you are allowed to do. But the term is often misused to refer to something else. Consider, for…
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Slashdotted!
Sorry for the outage yesterday. A Slashdot item about Fritz’s Hit List drove enough traffic here to use up our full bandwidth allocation for the month. I’ve put another quarter…