Stars Blink Out: the Struggle for Relevance: Golan v. Holder and SOPA: A Lesson In Civics
A BLOG POST! I haven’t done one of these in what feels like forever. This one’s about how the SOPA protests and the decision today in Golan v. Holder both stand for the same proposition: we need to start holding our congresspeople responsible for the copyright law policies they enact on our behalf. Hope it’s at least somewhat interesting!
This is a blog post that I wrote.
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It’s a great quote. And it encapsulates the major problem with expecting the court to fix copyright. It’s just plain NOT THEIR JOB. We need to use our SOPA-protest-like mechanisms and mentalities to fix things like this, not our faith in 9 people in robes. I have more to say, coming soon! (via starsblinkout) |
| — | LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® | The PROTECT IP Act: We’re all infringers now. I’ve said the same thing time and time again. I love this idea, and it should be the central driving force behind all cultural regulation. |
Video Games Are Ruled Protected Speech, Now What?
Great analysis in this article, but. The most important thing here is that Antonin Scalia just declared videogames to be expression, deserving of the same protection as all art.
Just pointing this out: the organization for which I work (The Office of the Ohio Public Defender) and an organization of which I am a member (the Ohio ACLU) joins with an organization that I love (the Electronic Frontier Foundation) to do something AWESOME.
Reposting from my NEW OTHER BLOG, that has all of the cool things I read about related to my field: internet regulation, tech policy, and intellectual property law.
