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Copyright & DRM

Amazon Reviews, Social Media, and Business

by Stan Tsirulnikov on November 23, 2009 • Comments

How to lose friends and alienate customers with bad DRM.

Why would Yahoo! delete Geocities?

by Jerry Brito on November 16, 2009 • Comments

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Yahoo! recently deleted all the data from its discontinued Goecities service rather than keeping it backed up somewhere. In the process they erased much of the history of the early web.

Michael S. Sawyer on user-generated content, fair use, and the DMCA

by Jerry Brito on October 13, 2009 • Comments

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Michael S. Sawyer, a fellow at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, discusses the impact of the DMCA on user-generated content. The discussion also turns to the principle of fair use and competing solutions for dealing with copyright infringements on user-generated content sites.

Google books and orphan bounty hunters

by Gabriel Okolski on October 12, 2009 • Comments

Could Google create an “orphan author bounty hunter” program to allay book deal fears?

Wu (2006) is right on Google Books Search

by Jerry Brito on October 4, 2009 • Comments

Is a monopoly necessary to build an online library of orphan and out-of-print books? Tim Wu disagrees with himself.

Debate: Michael Heller vs. Richard Epstein

by Stan Tsirulnikov on October 2, 2009 • Comments

Live from George Mason University School of Law a debate between Michael Heller, author of the new book, The Gridlock Economy, and University of Chicago School of Law Professor Richard Epstein.