Susan Crawford Blog
This blawg covers Internet law and policy, computer history, the Federal Communications Commission and touches on classical music.
Author: Susan Crawford is currently a visiting professor at the University of Michigan Law School, teaching cyberlaw and communications law. In spring 2008, she will be a visiting professor at Yale Law School. She is a member of the board of directors of ICANN and is the founder of OneWebDay, a global Earth Day for the Internet that takes place each Sept. 22. She usually lives in New York City and teaches at Yeshiva University's Benjamin Cardozo School of Law.
Blawg Related Categories: Intellectual Property Law • Trademark Law • Internet Law • University of Michigan • Law Professor
Recent Posts from Susan Crawford Blog
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She didn’t sell the plane on eBay
Distributed opposition research is really coming into its own these days - thanks to Micah Sifry for that phrase. It’s amazing what can be dug up using online comments, tweets, and the long memory of…
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How Google Built Chrome
Fine story from Steven Levy here. In the coming era of cloud computing, the Web will be much more than just a means of delivering content — it will be a platform in its own…
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Labor Day
Happy Labor Day. Here are two great personal efforts: Oliver Ding is looking for 92 more freesouls to give him material with which to create another freesouls slideshow. Freesouls group on Slideshare.net http://www.slideshare.net/group/freesouls Freesouls 100…
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Planning for the future
I’m a Comcast internet access customer, and I don’t have a television here in Ann Arbor. There, I’ve said it. I remember thinking when other people used to say they didn’t have televisions that they…
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More Denver
Another evening of watching DailyKos comments, tweets, and c-span.org. There’s a certain flatness that everyone seems to be picking up on - a repetitive fluffiness - nothing like Senator Kennedy or Michelle Obama last night. …
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Convention
Nancy Scola of TechPresident took me (and anyone else) on a quick video tour of the Big Tent. The Google smoothies, the clean wood of the temporary stairs, the serious rows of people typing -…
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Denver
A mass exhalation across listservs and social network sites today, as people announce they’re leaving for Denver. For a little while this afternoon I wished I was going too. I’ve never been to a convention…
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Comcast
Yesterday’s FCC decision to require Comcast to stop interfering with popular peer-to-peer applications being used by subscribers to its highspeed Internet access service was historic. Millions of Americans were surprised by Comcast’s discriminatory activities, and…
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Harold Feld on Comcast order
Harold Feld’s post is here. It’s been a big day of OneWebDay for me, so I am a little under water, informationally-speaking. More tomorrow.
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Mashups of various kinds
With OneWebDay about a month from now, I’m hearing from a lot of different people. Here are three sites I didn’t know about until this week: Spot.us - helping communities support journalists doing reporting. “Spot…