shouting loudly

Wow; Ernest Miller is a lot more on top of this stuff than a) I am and b) I gave him credit for. The best I can do is acknowledge that I was wrong, presumably because I read his writings on what the law SHOULD be as a statement about what the law IS. In [...]

I suspect it will not be generally heeded, but WIPO has begun soliciting public comments on international IP governance. See WIPO’s Online Forum on Intellectual Property in the Information Society for further details. HURRY; commentary period ends on June 15.

I’ve just finished an excessively long comment on Ernest Miller‘s blog. I’ve linked to Miller’s post (rather than my comment) to provide some context. To be fair, it’s more like “Bill Nitpicks a Yale Law Grad,” but the distinction is important. I’m surprised more people aren’t fired up about the difference between access control technologies [...]

Just back from NYC; trying to catch up, still no time to blog. Hot off the Slyck News presses: the Broadcast Flag was beaten up by a Congressional Research Service report, which argues that the flag endangers fair use. The report is available here; see page 5.