The Laboratorium


"A place for experimentation, culture-jamming, critical thinking, artistic risk-taking, and the creative use of computers. I believe in the promise of redemptive technology, in new wine in old bottles, in unexpected connections, and the profound joy of understanding."

Author: James Grimmelmann is an associate professor at New York Law School.

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Recent Posts from The Laboratorium


  • New indoor record for least

    New indoor record for least time elapsed between delivery of food and “How’s everything?”: 37 seconds...

  • Fortune Cookie Fortunes, Evil Genius Hellbent on World Domination Edition

    I had quite a pair of fortunes (from the same cookie) a few weeks back: You are the master of every situation. Keep your plans secret for now....

  • GBS: The Game Is Afoot

    The parties aren’t the only ones burying filings late on Friday night. Earlier (but not much earlier) this evening, Amazon filed a motion asking Judge Chin to reconsider yesterday’s ruling preliminarily approving the settlement. It’s…

  • Worst Slurpee Names Ever

    This summer, back-to-back, 7-11 featured the Transformers-themed Bumblebee Blast and the G.I. Joe-themed Liquid Artillery. Neither sounds like something one would ever want to drink voluntarily....

  • Bruce Schneier's Taxonomy of Social Networking Data

    Very helpful cleanup of what “personal information” means on social network sites: Service data. Service data is the data you need to give to a social networking site in order to use it. It might…

  • GBS: ABA IP Section Teleconference on December 1

    Panelists include Jonathan Band, Matthew Schruers, Ralph Oman (former Register of Copyrights!), and moderator Lisa Dunner....

  • GBS: EFF on Competition

    Fred von Lohmann’s series on the amended settlement continues with a post on competition issues. On the unclaimed-works issue, he reaches a pragmatic conclusion—or as pragmatic a conclusion as one can reach “without a crystal…

  • GBS: Preliminary Approval

    Judge Chin has granted the parties’ request for preliminary approval. This isn’t a substantive ruling. just a procedural one. It puts us roughly back where we were a few months ago, before the parties withdrew…

  • GBS: What Do We Know About the Books Out There?

    Brian Lavoie and Lorcan Dempsey, Beyond 1923: Characteristics of Potentially In-copyright Print Books in Library Collections, D-Lib Magazine, November/December 2009, tries to give some tentative answers about the shape of the elephant. From the introduction:…

  • GBS: Around the Web

    Pamela Samuelson doesn’t like the amended settlement: What stands out after my initial review of GBS 2.0 is that changes were overwhelmingly made to placate the governments of France and Germany, as well as the…