Siva Vaidhyanthan in today's Salon, on the IICA/Induce Act: "While industry lobbyists swear they would go only after the proprietors of peer-to-peer services, they don't have much credibility. After all, they have already taken the makers of videorecorders and MP3 players to court. Why wouldn't they do...

By Cindy Cohn
Over the past week we've seen several media stories suggesting that the electronic voting machine issue is partisan.
While there are certainly folks who would like to portray it that way, including Jeb Bush and unfortunately last week, the Washington Post, it's...

James Grimmelmann @ LawMeme has a post demonstrating the sheer prolific magnitude of Ernest Miller's thinking & writing on the IICA/Induce Act, and adds a few well chosen words of his own:

His coverage matters to lawyers, techies, copyfighters, and consumers. That is, everyone. Ignore it...

EFF Staff Attorney Wendy Seltzer has concluded the below-referenced online colloquy on fair use and academic publishing; below, a snippet on the fair use argument for using Fox News clips to criticize the company's reporting:

Question from Lloyd Davidson, Northwestern Univ.:
Robert Greenwald's new film, ...

Spurred by the aforementioned scholarly book-recall, the Chronicle of Higher Education is holding an online colloquy on fair use and academic publishing tomorrow, July 14 at 1:00 p.m. EST. The colloquy features EFF Staff Attorney Wendy Seltzer, and you can post any comments or questions...

...or so the latest LawMeme poll suggests -- although common sense itself appears to be the first victim.

On the heels of the brouhaha over OutFOXed comes yet another tale of copyright gone bad.
The protagonist is Liane Curtis, who compiled an anthology that included excerpts of unpublished work by Anglo-American composer Rebecca Clarke for publication by Indiana University Press. The copyright to this...