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Little bit of this, little bit of that:

Anders Bylund, MPAA push-polling the public to change copyright views:

The questions concern ownership and copyright, and are slanted in a way that would make any courtroom drama lawyer shout "objection, your honor! Bullying the witness!" As an example, "how would you feel if you painted a picture and found out someone was selling copies of it on EBay [sic] and making money off it? Violated, quiet, angry, appreciated, glad, indifferent, concerned, releived, annoyed, other." Open source programmers might have opinions on that matter that would give the MPAA dry heaves.

Kevin O'Keefe, Law Review articles citing legal blogs:

5 years from now most law reviews will be in a format similar to blogs. We'll then be discussing how to cite the the old law reviews in current digital law reviews when the old ones cannot be linked.

Victorious $1.1 million wrongful termination plaintiff and former liver patient Warren Snider, quoted in Jury Awards Lawyer $1.1 Million in Wrongful Termination Suit (via The Legal Reader):

I think they worried that his illness was going to create a long-term problem for him to meet his obligations as an attorney. Rather than wait to see the outcome of the treatment, they said, 'Look, we just want to get rid of this guy' and they found a reason to do so.

Ernie Svenson, Copyright patrol & moribund business models:

Business models threatened by social change and technological innovation will continue to cling to life support through litigation. That's basic human nature. Old ideas have their own life-force, just like people. And doctors aren't the only ones who help preserve life through heroic, but costly and perhaps uncalled for, measures. Sadly, there are no living wills for moribund business models.

Doc Searls, Unchain your art:

Want to succeed in the blogosphere, or the Web in general? Easy. Do search engine optimization. Here's how:

1. Write quotable stuff about a lot of different subjects.

2. Do it consistently, for months if not years.

3. Link a lot, as a way of giving credit and of sending readers to other sources of whatever it is you write about.

That's it.

Michael Geist, 30 Days of DRM, Day One (via Boing Boing):

Canada can ill-afford to follow the U.S. lead by leaving doubt as to whether anti-circumvention provisions apply outside the realm of copyright.

David Weinberger, on Susan Crawford's deconstruction of the 'Consumer Internet Bill of Rights':

Yo, Ted, you know what I'm exactly not doing with the Internet right now? Consuming it. I'm creating a little tiny bit more of it.

Move Over Snakes On A Plane, Here're Birds On A Blog

My dad called me all a-twitter tonight, when he caught this report on the CBS Evening News about PigeonBlog, which mashes up feathers and FLOPS in the name of air quality monitoring. Turns out there will be a big PigeonBlog pigeon release right here in River City next month, at what looks to be a delightfully geeky event I'd not yet heard of: UbiComp 2006. One thing's certain: Bruce Sterling's keynote won't be for the birds:

Ubicomp: Reifying the Fantastic

Suppose a world really occurs where ubiquitous computing is as common as electricity and radio are today. What would that look and feel like and how would we describe it? Bruce Sterling has been working on a science fiction novel with exactly this topic, and has some thoughts to share on all things physical, fabbable, ambient, findable, and pervasive.

Yesterlinks

And a few from today. (As Jeneane says, "just don't fall asleep.")

• Reuters and The Beeb are watching YouTube's efforts "to have every music video ever created up on YouTube" — and still keep the lights on.


• Sounds like we've got a bad Connexion. (Via Techmeme)


• CNet covers Professor Lessig at LinuxWorld. "Railed?" Better to make time for "50 minutes of pure excitement and education," and judge for yourself.


• In today's net neutrality ping pong semifinals: Carole Handler and Randolph J. May.


• It's good to see Colette being Colette. (Hi Yvonne!)


• I'm late to link to the latest Google Fight (Seven Dwarfs v. Nine Justices), but I was waiting for Article III Groupie's take.


• Quinn Norton goes deep on the Pirate Bay at Wired News. Bonus link: Quinn's Flickr set, Personalities of the Swedish Copyfight.


• It's not as though Matt Neco and StreamCast legal don't already have their hands full.

Strange Shelffellows

In light of all the hubbub around Dell's battery related recall, I dug up some photos of my melted PowerBook from September, '04. Kinda psychedelic, hmm? [Update:] Related: Need for Battery Power Runs Into Basic Hurdles of Science. (Via Techmeme)

melts in your lap, not in your hands

Also, here's the big ol' mixer I've been going on about. Talk about butterflies in Bangkok; reallocating desk space for this thing has precipitated an entire office overhaul. (The pen is there for scale.)

16 channels, 16 tons?

Which in turn has led to 90% of the books my husband and I have accumulated since 1989 or so being jigsawed into 3 thankfully capacious desk cubbies, in a serendipitous, Dewey Decimal defying riot. A Woman's Guide to Tantra Yoga is cozying up to Legal Issues in the Global Information Society — and other pairings not ordinarily found in nature.

elvii and cats, living together