Monday, June 26, 2006 at 2:13PM "The Urban Simulation Team @ UCLA is a research group exploring applications for real-time visual simulation in design, urban planning, emergency response, and education." Cool high-res virtual images of various spots around L.A. are available from William Jepson.
Monday, June 26, 2006 at 1:03PM Participatory law happens in all manner of different ways, including when a lawyer solves an "I wish there were..." problem with a freasy (my sandwich word of the day, free+easy) technological tool. And so we have California Supreme Court Pending Civil Cases, a blog that "lists and describes all currently pending civil cases in which the California Supreme Court has granted review, excluding those on grant and hold." Courtesy of appellate lawyer Martin Buchanan. And here's another little practitioner's/blogger's/newshound's tip: once you read Martin's blog and find some cases you want to follow, you can sign up for the Court to send you email notifications of future events. That way, you can be among the first to know when a big new decision comes down. (No, the California Supreme Court doesn't speak RSS. Yet.)
Monday, June 26, 2006 at 9:58AM [Update:] Keep up with Lawbby via Chris Rempel's blog.
[Update:] Just to compare apples with 27.4 billion pound gorillas: "MySpace has 75 million users (see somewhat dated comparison stats here), 15 million daily unique logins, is growing by a massive 240,000 new users per day, and is generating nearly 30 billion monthly page views (that's 10,593 page views per second)."
Monday, June 26, 2006 at 9:27AM Big congratulations to J. Craig Williams for being named a 2006 Southern California Journalism Awards winner — in the "Online" category, for "Weblog, Individual" — by the Los Angeles Press Club. Taking the group blog honors was LAVoice.org, which today alerts: "Avast! Barristers Off the Starboard Beam!"
[Update:] LAVoice.org also has this coverage of the awards banquet, as well as a sub-list of online category winners and runners-up.
Wednesday, June 21, 2006 at 11:48AM I'm here at the Corporate Podcasting Summit, where our panel on "Where Next?" issues just wrapped up. With Colette and I on the panel, we covered a good deal of legal ground, but Andy McCormick is now specifically addressing intellectual property issues.
On our panel, we touched on the logistical issues around registering a work (or series of works) like a podcast with the Copyright Office. Andy's view seems to be that it's important to register to trigger the additional rights and advantages that accompany doing so, and that you should take the most conservative approach and get it done — despite what may turn out to be daunting inconvenience and expense considerations. I understand where he's coming from, but I'm still not happy about the conclusion. The conclusion I reach is that the registration process needs to adapt to more readily embrace media like blogs, podcasts, vlogs, videocasts, etc.
Andy also touched on the mind-numbing music licensing issues, and concluded by highlighting podsafe music and other similar alternatives. Absolutely — the most friction-free alternative for podcasters who want to incorporate music is to use music that wants to be incorporated. Like the copyright registration process, the traditional music licensing framework was established without referenced to the sorts of technologies and media we see today, and doesn't (yet? hope springs eternal) accommodate them well.
I asked a question about the myriad ways you can give notice of copyright or licensing information related to a podcast, and Andy thinks probably the best/most effective way to give notice is as part of the program itself. (Watch for my interview with Colette, we discuss these and related issues at some length.)
[Tags: corporate podcasting summit, podcasting law, podcasting legal guide, podlaw]
