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During the first few years after the emergence of the commercial Internet in 1993 (or so), the U.S. government took a hands-off approach to regulation of the ‘net. The Clinton Administration, in particular, realized that over-regulation of the Internet in its infancy could have a serious, negative impact on its growth. The thought at that [...]

I was intrigued by a recent study of the views of entering college freshman done by Beloit College. Many of the items related to technology, such as:
• With cell phones to tell them the time, there is no need for a wristwatch.
• Email is just too slow….
• They never twisted the coiled handset wire aimlessly [...]

“Video game law” emerges as a specialty. Facebook and eBay test the limits of Section 230. Forum selection clauses become more important in Internet legal documents. Myspace tries to turn piracy into profit with a new technology. A man claims that an emoticon turned him into a pedophile against his will. Hear Professor Michael Scott [...]

Last Thursday, Josh Kagan gave a talk on Web 2.0 law for my Internet & E-Commerce Law class here at Southwestern Law School. Josh covered several interesting topics, including copyleft licenses, DMCA takedown abuse, and blogger issues. This is a webcast of that talk.
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Several weeks ago now, Google announced the settlement of a copyright infringement case filed against it by a group of American publishers who objected to the Google Book Search project. (I recently wrote about the settlement here.) The Google Book Search project has the goal of digitizing virtually every book ever published, and making that [...]

The DMCA celebrates its tenth birthday; are we better off than we were ten years ago? Who is the real winner in the Google Book Search settlement? Can California’s legislature control violent video games? Michael and Josh tackle these questions and more on this week’s edition of The Singularity Law Podcast!
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