Madisonian
This blawg is about "law, technology, society."
Author: There are six law-professor authors: Michael Madison of the University of Pittsburgh; Brett Frischmann, Loyola University-Chicago School; Frank Pasquale of Seton Hall University, who also contributes to Concurring Opinions and Law, Science & Technology and is editor-in-chief of Health Reform Watch; Alfred Chueh-Chih Yen of Boston College; Deven Desai of Thomas Jefferson School of Law and Greg Lastowka of Rutgers University-Camden.
Blawg Related Categories: Internet Law • Science & Technology Law • Boston College • Loyola University-Chicago • Rutgers University-Camden • Seton Hall University • Thomas Jefferson School of Law • University of Pittsburgh • Law Professor
Recent Posts from Madisonian
-
Happy 4th!
No Tags
-
Salinger Takes Another Round
Prequel: A Sequel in the Rye J.D. Salinger has persuaded a district court judge to elevate a temporary restraining order to a preliminary injunction in his effort to prevent American audiences from reading 60 Years…
-
A Machine Would Never Be Bitter
I sometimes wonder if the flipside of the AI campaign to make machines more humanlike is a pharmacological campaign to make humans as quiescent as machines. As global competition increases the value of productivity, an…
-
Copyright and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Matthew B. Crawford’s new book, “Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work,” gives IP lawyers quite a lot to think about. (An excerpt appeared recently in the New York Times magazine,…
- New Developments in Cryptography and Privacy
-
A copyright radio ad
I never thought this would happen, but today I heard my first radio ad directed specifically towards copyright. The ad, airing here in Boston, criticized attempts in Congress to add a performance right for recording…
-
IP and Children, in the Wilderness
Michael Chabon has an elegiac essay in the New York Review of Books (”Manhood for Amateurs: The Wilderness of Childhood”) on what is denied to our children: This is the kind of door-to-door, all-encompassing escort service…
-
Vuvuzelas
The gang at Language Log provides a thorough overview of the meaning and function of the vuvuzela, the device that provided the soundtrack to the just-concluded Confederations Cup soccer tournament in South Africa (the result…
-
Netflix Prize Won?
It appears that the Netflix Prize has been won. Thet Netflix Prize is a $1 million prize being offered by Netflix for development of a “movie recommendation system” that is 10% better than Netflix’s own…
-
Irony
Wired editor Chris Anderson, in a book entitled Free, in passages defining “free lunch” and the “TANSTAAFL” acronym, decides to get his authorial words for free from Wikipedia and to include them in Free without…