Questions About From Goods to a Good Life
I’m a little late to the From Goods to a Good Life party, and as a result I have a slightly different take than the other contributors here. I appreciate their contributions, and I enjoyed the book....
View ArticleUp … and Away
I just came back from seeing the new Pixar animated film Up . It’s a charracteristically charming Pixar effort; all thumbs up! Plus, I got these neat-o 3D glasses. There’s a little IP angle to the...
View ArticleThe Watchmakers’ Court and Related Curiosities
This recent New Yorker piece about “Baselworld,” the annual watchmakers’ confab in Switzerland (Patricia Marx, “Face Value,” May 25, 2009) included a throwaway line that I found fascinating....
View ArticleWhere Trademarked “Eagles” Dare
The world is again safe for trademark law, now that the National Rifle Association has put an end to efforts at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse to name the university’s eagle mascot “Eddie.” For...
View ArticleComedy, Copyright, and a Virtual Symposium
Late last year the Virginia Law Review published a provocative and entertaining article by Dotan Oliar and Christopher Sprigman (both on the Virginia law faculty) on copyright law and the social norms...
View ArticleBest Practices in Fair Use
Yesterday, the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at American University’s Washington College of Law and the Center for Social Media at AU’s School of Communication released...
View ArticleOn Being an Ambassador for Pittsburgh
By popular request, I’m posting this link to my brief appearance in this morning’s New York Times. (Well, the link is popular in certain quarters, and I did receive a request to post it!) The story...
View ArticleOn Showing Up
My post on the challenges facing the law school Research Dean contained an implicit and unexamined assumption regarding a gap between the interest of the individual faculty member in producing and...
View ArticleA Right to Be Punished?
From the Department of Paradoxes in Sporting Jurisprudence: Last Saturday night, at the end of the NBA playoff basketball game between the Dallas Mavericks and the Denver Nuggets, Antoine Wright of the...
View ArticleThe Law School Faculty as a Commons
What’s the connection between law professors and stand-up comics? My last post pointed to a recent short piece on comics and the relationship between “anti-plagiarism” social norms that encourage comic...
View ArticleExploring Commons Institutions
Thanks to Deven for the generous introduction and to Dan and the Co-Op team for inviting me to spend some time here this month. The introduction intentionally saves space by not including a couple of...
View ArticleQuestions About From Goods to a Good Life
I’m a little late to the From Goods to a Good Life party, and as a result I have a slightly different take than the other contributors here. I appreciate their contributions, and I enjoyed the book....
View ArticleUp … and Away
I just came back from seeing the new Pixar animated film Up . It’s a charracteristically charming Pixar effort; all thumbs up! Plus, I got these neat-o 3D glasses. There’s a little IP angle to the...
View ArticleThe Watchmakers’ Court and Related Curiosities
This recent New Yorker piece about “Baselworld,” the annual watchmakers’ confab in Switzerland (Patricia Marx, “Face Value,” May 25, 2009) included a throwaway line that I found fascinating....
View ArticleWhere Trademarked “Eagles” Dare
The world is again safe for trademark law, now that the National Rifle Association has put an end to efforts at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse to name the university’s eagle mascot “Eddie.” For...
View ArticleComedy, Copyright, and a Virtual Symposium
Late last year the Virginia Law Review published a provocative and entertaining article by Dotan Oliar and Christopher Sprigman (both on the Virginia law faculty) on copyright law and the social norms...
View ArticleBest Practices in Fair Use
Yesterday, the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at American University’s Washington College of Law and the Center for Social Media at AU’s School of Communication released...
View ArticleOn Being an Ambassador for Pittsburgh
By popular request, I’m posting this link to my brief appearance in this morning’s New York Times. (Well, the link is popular in certain quarters, and I did receive a request to post it!) The story...
View ArticleOn Showing Up
My post on the challenges facing the law school Research Dean contained an implicit and unexamined assumption regarding a gap between the interest of the individual faculty member in producing and...
View ArticleA Right to Be Punished?
From the Department of Paradoxes in Sporting Jurisprudence: Last Saturday night, at the end of the NBA playoff basketball game between the Dallas Mavericks and the Denver Nuggets, Antoine Wright of the...
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