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Thomas Hoeren on EUCD, Anti-circumvention and Lessig as Graham
posted by mpawlo on Friday September 10, @04:56AM
from the interesting-people dept.
News Is the DRM debate about religion rather than facts? Is Lessig a religous leader rather than a researcher? And why are Europeans so non-visible in the international copyright debate? Greplaw has picked Prof. Dr. Thomas Hoeren's brain.

Please be advised that Greplaw doesn't sponsor nor necessarily agrees with any views expressed by its interviewees. If you feel like contesting the views expressed herein, please use the comments function.

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Blog Torrent and Participatory Culture
posted by scubacuda on Thursday August 26, @01:23AM
from the superseeding-threats-to-free-culture dept.
Digital Entertainment In this GrepLaw interview, Downhill Battle's Nicholas Reville describes the success (and takedown) of SP2Torrent.com, alternative ways to buy music, what indie musicians think about filesharing, and real ways to counter threats to creativity and an open culture. Those excited about the possibilities of Bittorrent will especially appreciate Downhill Battle's Blog Torrent, an easy-to-install program that will dramatically simplify the creation, posting, and seeding of new torrents. 

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John Gilmore on inflight activism, spam and sarongs
posted by mpawlo on Wednesday August 18, @09:08AM
from the interesting-people dept.
Civil Liberties Hero or troll? Opinions differ. Freedom fighter or eccentric? Both, if you bother to ask him. Sarong or turban? Both, anytime! Greplaw has picked John Gilmore's brain.

Gilmore filed his final answer by email at 4.50 AM. Gilmore has also added some bonus questions of his own to this Greplaw editor's pleasure. We are impressed. The so called bonus material is edited in along the text and not specifically highlighted. Most (but not all!) of the less pleasant questions are Greplaw's, though...

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Interview with Katie Jones of (the Real) Katie.com
posted by scubacuda on Friday August 06, @01:13AM
from the racketeering.com? dept.
Copyright Katie Jones (the real Katie.com owner) shares with GrepLaw some of the details of the dispute with Penguin's "branding" of its book, Katie.com.

Katie talks about her conversation with cyberlawyer Parry Aftab, how she believes Penguin's title change (from girl.com [then a porn site] to Katie.com) suggests that Penguin thought it could steamroll her without recourse, and the tremendous amount of support the geek community has shown her.

Update: /. comments on the interview; Penguin has now changed Katie.com to A Girl's Life Online

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Spaf on Legislating Technology, Congressional Testimonies, and Info Security
posted by scubacuda on Monday April 05, @01:59AM
from the dept.
Security Dr. Eugene "Spaf" Spafford, security expert and professor of Computer Science at Purdue University, talks with Greplaw about what drove him to the computer security field, what it's like to testify before Congressional committees, and how legislating technology is "bad law."

For you budding legal geeks interested in forensics, technology, law, and ethics, Spaf has provided a reading list.

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Joel Reidenberg on Hack Toolz, Lex Informatica, and Affirming Non-US Democratic Values
posted by scubacuda on Tuesday March 23, @02:25PM
from the why-geo-boundaries-do-matter dept.
Internet Governance

Joel Reidenberg, professor at Fordham University School of Law, talks with GrepLaw about how "hack tools" (such as packet interceptors, viral e-mails, filters, and DoS attacks) give democratic states the ability to enforce their freely chosen public policies within their territories. Mr. Reidenberg challenges the conventional wisdom that said either the person or the person’s assets needed to be within the state’s physical territory to enforce the state’s law.

Mr. Reidenberg's SSRN paper, States and Internet Enforcement, is currently available in PDF.

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Jessica Litman on Redesign of Copyright
posted by mpawlo on Wednesday February 25, @02:14AM
from the interesting-people dept.
Copyright What would copyright scholar Jessica Litman do, should she find a genie in a bottle and be able to redesign copyright law?

Find out in this exclusive Greplaw interview with the professor of Wayne State University. Also, we have picked Litman's brain on subjects as the CAN-Spam Act, Napster and the UDRP.

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Seth Finkelstein on Censorware, Copyright and Blogs
posted by mpawlo on Tuesday December 16, @03:28AM
from the interesting-people dept.
Censorship Seth Finkelstein is Mr Anti-Censorware. The MIT graduate and EFF Pioneer has devoted his talents into unpaid anti-censorware research. For good and bad, as it turns out. Finkelstein has not only spent a great amount of hours fighting censorware, he has also done his best to fight the digital millennium copyright act. If that's not enough to get you started - learn why punditry in blogs is not democracy. Greplaw has picked Finkelstein's brain.

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Information Society Moves in on ICANN
posted by mpawlo on Monday December 15, @05:49AM
from the good-or-bad dept.
Internet Governance The World Summit on the Information Society is held in two phases. The first phase of WSIS took place in Geneva last week. It addressed the broad range of themes concerning the Information Society and adopted a Declaration of Principles and Plan of Action. The second phase will take place in Tunis hosted by the Government of Tunisia, from 16 to 18 November 2005. The WSIS raises one important question - that of ICANN's role.

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Jim Griffin on the Future of Music
posted by mpawlo on Friday November 28, @07:17AM
from the interesting-people dept.
Copyright Jim Griffin is one of the leading thinkers when it comes to the future of digital music. Griffin once held a key position at Geffen after which he started his own company with Cherry Lane's Milt Okun. Jim Griffin is also co-founder of the most important forum for debating the future of music, Pho. Greplaw has picked Jim Griffin's brain.

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Older Stuff

Wednesday September 03

  • Ernest Miller on DRM, Privacy and Hemingway (2)
  • Tuesday September 02

  • Ian Clarke on Freenet and his Decision to Leave the USA (22)
  • Saturday August 30

  • Wendy Seltzer on the EFF, Chilling Effects and Opera (6)
  • Open Season on Spammers (9)
  • Tuesday August 26

  • Jane Doe, $150K/download, and Using the Color of Law: an interview with Glenn Peterson (13)
  • Friday August 08

  • MUD-flation, Cross-Gender Play, and Hobbes: an interview with Edward Castronova (3)
  • Monday August 04

  • Copyright's Forward Flaw (0)
  • Professor Fisher and the Red Eye (18)
  • Wednesday July 30

  • Brad Templeton on Usenet Policy, Spam and Reinventing the Phone (6)
  • Thursday July 17

  • Lessig on Blogs, Eldred and his Audi TT (10)
  • Friday June 06

  • Conversation With Phil Zimmermann (10)

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