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Last Update: Tue Apr 14 09:09:36 2009

+ Stanford E-Commerce Conference 6/13 + Hope to see you at the E-Commerce Best Practices Conference at Stanford Law School on June 13.   I think it's consistently [...] here .   It's really the audience that makes the event what it is-- always a great turn-out of the Valley legal crowd.

+ Make Way for Duck Bites -- Roommates.com + Jumping in with a few thoughts on the 9th Circuit's Roommates.com decision , which came out last week -- some viewpoints include [...] decision found the “additional comments” portion of the site to be covered by the immunity, because it was a neutral too

+ Happy Holidays! + ...

+ Shout out to the Copyright Office! + Back in the fall I  noticed and blogged  that the Copyright Office  did not have an up-to-date version of the [...] of Congress -- coverage includes Copyright Office information, digital preservation, poetry and other good stuff.

+ Happy 5th Birthday, Creative Commons! + Last night Creative Commons celebrated the 5th anniversary of the launch of the Creative Commons licenses!    I [...] legal licensing permissions.  As a lawyer, Larry Lessig and the other founders saw how the perfect storm of digital copyrig

+ Hail Stanford, 20-13 over Cal! + The Axe returned; the rightful order of things restored; celebration! ...

+ 1st Amendment prevails in fantasy league case + The 8th Circuit issued an opinion today in the fantasy baseball case, CBC Distribution & Marketing v. MLB Advanced Media , [...] today."  Here are some interesting posts today on the case: Staci Kramer on Paid Content Neil Richards on Co

+ A small observation about the Copyright Office web site + Here's the story of a simple fix to the Copyright Office site that should probably be moved up on the priority list: [...] Recently folks here started  giving our city government hell  from the moment it launched a flawed web site redesign!

+ More on the metaphysics of "making available" + In anticipation of the appeal of the recent RIAA P2P victory,  Fred von Lohmann reviews the "make available" vs. [...] applicable copyright law, except executing it on a computer or modifying a private copy. Propagation includes copying, distributio

+ RIAA victory round-up and notes + Here are some perspectives on the much-publicized RIAA victory ($220K plus jury verdict) this week against the P2P [...] "We have always made it clear we are reluctant litigators."   Don't see a press release on the RIAA site.

+ Off-topic: 24-23 at the Coliseum! + We missed the first half because my younger son had a birthday party today.  My older son checked the Stanford game in the [...] play with afterwards.  Now my boys have Pritchard and Bradford.   New memories today  -- what a game!

+ Check out my home boy Yokum -- and his startup company lawyer blog! + Something truly wonderful happened while I was taking my blogging break -- about the same time my partner Yokum Taku filled the [...] at GigaOM , which includes one that maybe I actually have a chance of beating my teenage son at, Phoenix Wright, Ace Attorney.

+ My turn on Five Questions with Kevin O'Keefe + Kevin O'Keefe's blog did a piece today about my relaunching my blog , as I've come back after an extended break.  When I [...] and very much enjoyed working with Rob La Gatta on it.  I would love to hear from anyone about it, and I'm glad to be back!

+ Hello again and maybe we'll see you in Cambridge! + Hello again and happy fall. If you follow my blog you may have noticed that I took a hiatus that lasted through the [...] so we’ll probably head over to Soldier’s Field too. Hope to bump into old or new friends while we’re there!

+ Yale hosts "Legally Female" conference March 31 + Yale Law Women  host a conference March 31 titled “ Legally Female: What Does It Mean to Be Ms. JD ?" where Ms. [...] and Katherine McDaniel .  For this exceptional event I will gladly take some Lux with my Veritas.