January 2007
4 posts
Google Book Search the new MP3.com?
The New Yorker has a dispatch from Jefferey Toobin updating us on the Google Book Search case. It’s a good primer if you haven’t been following this issue, and also fills in some details if you have. Interesting tidbits include the fact that they haven’t started witness depositions yet, and the parties won’t be able to make motions for summary judgment for another year....
Brownback, FCC to stop TV from making kids fat
Is Sam Brownback the answer for limited government types in the Republican party? He bills himself as a “full-scale Ronald Reagan conservative,” which implies a leave-us-alone attitude. Doing research at the FCC’s site today, I came across a press release (PDF) announcing the formation of something called The Task Force on “Media and Childhood Obesity: Today and...
For markets, for fair use
In an op-ed in The American today (and also in comments to National Journal on the reintroduction of the Boucher fair use bill), PFF’s Patrick Ross writes that those of us who advocate reversing the DMCA and strengthening fair use rights have little faith in markets. According to him, curtailing the DMCA means government intervention in emerging markets.
What arguments like Patrick’s...
SOX sucks: The case of Apple
At an Apple Store a few weeks ago a clerk had to take down info from my driver’s license so that I could qualify for the education discount that previously only required that I flash my school ID. “Sorry, Sarbanes-Oxley,” she said. Really? “Yeah. Also, if you buy a custom Mac now, you have to have it shipped to your home; you can’t pick it up at the store...
