bIPlogIntellectual Property Weblog at the UC Berkeley Grad School of JournalismLast Day to Register on the Cheap for CFP...- March 31, 2004 Computers, Freedom and Privacy that is, Ap 20-23, 2004. The major tech policy conference of the year gets more expensive if you register after today. Act now Students are $75 today! And with a program like this, you can't justify not going to some of this (It's at the Clairmont Hotel in Berkeley)....http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/biplog/archive/002388.html File Sharing Lawsuits At Berkeley- March 30, 2004 Well, everybody including Mark Cuban (the owner of the Dallas Mavericks who just started blogging) is talking about music and copyright somewhere, it seems. Cuban has suddenly become very active on Pho talking about the Leahy-Hatch bill proposing to make file sharing criminal. (Side Note: Mark mentioned a company he started selling powered milk as an example toward the entrepreneurial spirit he thinks the music business and RIAA should consider, instead of fighting file sharing...http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/biplog/archive/002382.html China's Digital Future Conference at the JSchool Ap 30 and May 1- March 25, 2004 Info here. From the invite: You are invited to a conference on "China's Digital Future" at the UC Berkeley campus on Friday & Saturday, April 30 & May 1, 2004, sponsored by the Graduate School of Journalism. The conference features a keynote address by Stanford University Law Prof. Lawrence Lessig and presentations by many scholars, technologists, business people and journalists who are experts on China. (Ed. Note: Jonathan Zittrain will be there too.) Check the...http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/biplog/archive/002365.html PEW Asks Musicians...- March 25, 2004 What's the impact of the internet on your work. If you are a musician or songwriter, fill it out! Very important considering the "spate" of lawsuits that keep "flooding" consumers (sorry, just had to make fun of those words that those reporters overuse...). Jason Schultz does the math though, figuring that each filesharer would need to set aside $0.01483 cents per month average in order to cover settlements across all filesharers. But then Jason points...http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/biplog/archive/002360.html Copyfight Grows...- March 22, 2004 Donna Wentworth sends news that some folks will be joining her: Elizabeth Rader, Ernest Miller, Jason Schultz, Aaron Swartz, and Wendy Seltzer. Good luck guys! And now to take off for 48 hours of much needed rest....http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/biplog/archive/002352.html Spring Break...- March 22, 2004 Taking a couple of days off... back Wednesday....http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/biplog/archive/002351.html "You're Outsourced" Still Available- March 19, 2004 Donald Trump is trying to trademark "You're Fired" as of 2404. (I think Fuck may still be available too. Or at least Fuck the FCC.) Courtesy of the Smoking Gun. Update: doncha just love how the press deals with IP So ABC is talking about how Trump has filed a "copyright" request with the PTO, and Left, Right and Center on NPR just said that Trump has filed a "patent" request for "You're Fired." I'll...http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/biplog/archive/002344.html Behavior Mod by Comcast, or Mickey Mouse Internet- March 17, 2004 by Farhad ManjooSalon (sub req or watch ad). "We use the Net as a lifeline," George says. "For anybody for whom this isn't their native country, you'd understand." But Comcast, the company that provides George's high-speed Internet service, didn't understand. Last August, the company sent him a letter telling him to quit it -- he was using the Internet too much. The firm said he was violating Comcast's "acceptable use" policy, that he was somehow...http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/biplog/archive/002334.html DylanGaramond Make Digital Music Together- March 16, 2004 Sean Savage says: I know, you're not quite so sure about Garamond. But you -know- you're into Bob Dylan. So give it a chance. Indulging my fantasies about moveable typefaces. Course, the ZepplinTimes NR is pretty hot, though BigGBaskerville has really nice letters. But the Beatle's Dear PrudenceBook Antiqua has to be my fav. Now that's art....http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/biplog/archive/002323.html Matrix is Losing Member States- March 16, 2004 Due to privacy fears. John SchwartzNYT reports that only 5 of the original 16 states are still in the program. Matrix was supposed to relate databases across many states and had funding from the Homeland Security Administration, and the purpose was to sift through records to find patterns of suspect behavior, among other things. BIPlog reported on this before, though it wasn't mentioned in any of the presentations at the Privacy conference I attended this...http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/biplog/archive/002320.html |