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
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Cyberlaw Without PowerPoint
Today, I participated in a terrific symposium at the Denver University School of Law based on Danielle Citron’s work on Cyber Civil Rights. Two aspects of this symposium are particularly noteworthy, outside of the extremely…
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Merely Descriptive?
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Mass: We Pray
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Doing right and wrong by college sports recruits
Today’s Charlotte Observer reports the story of Clair Watkins, a senior basketball player who got one of those coveted “early commitments” from basketball powerhouse Duke. According to the story, Duke offered Ms. Watkins a promise…
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Ozymandias Lessons for Copyright
Ann Bartow’s post about Paul Zukofsky, son of Louis and Celia Zukofsky, and his attempt to exert extreme control over his parents’ work reveals that heirs are problem for copyright. Mr. Zukofsky asserts some untenable…
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Celebs Fight Back …
Given that the Twilight sequel, New Moon, opens this week, I just have to blog about something Twilight-related. I’ve been writing lately about celebrity privacy rights, and the right of publicity – and considering the…
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Assessing Algorithmic Authority
Clay Shirky characterizes “algorithmic authority” as “the decision to regard as authoritative an unmanaged process of extracting value from diverse, untrustworthy sources, without any human standing beside the result saying ‘Trust this because you trust…
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Legal and Algorithmic Authority
Clay Shirky has recently written “A Speculative Post on the Idea of Algorithmic Authority,” based on a talk at Yale’s recent conference on Journalism & The New Media Ecology. Shirky noted that “people trust new…
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Google does case law
Our Rutgers-Camden librarian, John P. Joergensen, tipped me off to this. Paul Caron has some details. Here’s what comes up for Kremen v. Cohen. More open access to law is always a good thing, imho.…
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Who gets whacked? Politico and Copyright
This morning’s Politico.com features a story entitled “Who Gets Whacked?” – a guide to Sarah Palin’s recent “Going Rogue” memoir summarizing how Palin treats various Washington players. The story features fairly extensive quotation from the…