27 Sunday May 2012
The Failures of the Facebook Generation in the Arab Spring
IP-Address Can’t Even Identify a State, BitTorrent Judge Rules
Drones Take Flight For Civilian Use
7 Ways To Get Yourself Detained Indefinitely
UK ‘cookie law’ takes effect: What you need to know
“A patent is property carried to the highest degree of abstraction—a right in rem to exclude, without a physical object or content.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
13 Sunday May 2012
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A mid-week election saw Richard Mourdock topple long-standing Republican Senator Richard Lugar. Has anybody bothered to ask Mourdock or (Democrat rival) Joe Donnelly’s thoughts on legislation like CISPA and SNOPA? Not this week, when all the talk was about Zuckerberg’s hoodie and President Obama’s evolution on same-sex marriage.
Why the New gTLDs Don’t Matter
Clicking ‘Like’ on Facebook Is Not Protected Speech, Judge Rules
Property rights in the cloud: Your data or theirs?
Twitter Defends User In Court Over Occupy Tweets
Think That Email Isn’t a Contract? Think Again
Facebook bans Grooveshark over copyright complaint
How Should We Measure Damages for Defamation Over Social Media?
Mars Rover Opportunity Rolling Again After Winter Break
New NDAA Would Give the Military Clandestine Cyberwar Powers
“All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.” – Mark Zuckerberg
08 Sunday Jan 2012
Stories from the Week that Was – 1/1/12-1/7/12
SOPA is THE issue in IP for early 2012. There is plenty of opposition to the bill from all sides but I’m left with so little confidence in Congress doing the right thing that I can’t forecast an optimistic outcome. I’m tempted to mail a copy of William Patry’s new book “How to Fix Copyright” to all of my congressmen. I’m about halfway through and it carries a vital message that hopefully gets to our elected officials before SOPA is passed and does permanent damage to the Internet.
Why Everyone Should Be Against SOPA
Why The Movie Industry Can’t Innovate and the Result is SOPA
National Defense Authorization Act Outrage Continues To Grow Online
Careful, That’s Not a Louis Vuitton
2011: The Year Intellectual Property Trumped Civil Liberties
Homeland Security monitors journalists
02 Monday Jan 2012
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Stories from the Week that Was – 12/25/11-12/31/11
2011 was quite a year. We witnessed intellectual property trump civil liberties time and time again. I’ll continue to archive the most important stories from each week, although I’m no longer certain it’s best for my mental health. Onward and upward (hopefully).
Copyrights Are No Longer About Copies (Part 1): William Patry
Creativity Springs From Careful Copying (Part 2): William Patry
Artists: Can You Be Sued for Including a Real Person in Your Painting?
SOPA is the end of us, say bloggers
Company sues former employee over right to Twitter followers
Scottie Pippie Files Suit Claiming Websites Falsely Labeled Him as Bankrupt; Is Blog Tag Defamatory?
Google+ Censoring Borderline Offensive Profile Images; Author Images in Search Results To Blame?
18 Sunday Dec 2011
Stories from the Week that Was – 12/11-12/17/11
Zeitgeist 2011: Year In Review – YouTube
Info no go: Wikipedia threatens strike over US piracy bill
Retrospective Video by Anonymous Includes Ominous Warning
SOPA, the NDAA, and Patent-Trolling: Why Americans Need a Civil Liberties Caucus
Indiana Intellectual Property Blog 