Category: patents
Jul
12
EFF Pub Quiz
copyright, secrecy, privacy, patents, berkeley, photos, p2p, friends, food, policy, DRM, legal, defamation, education, iSchoolThis past Thursday, [EFF] hosted a Pub Quiz event where teams were asked 8 rounds of questions related to cyberlaw. Our team, from [the Berkeley Clinic], was called **Notice and TAKEDOWN**.
We tied for third place with the [Stanford CIS]/[Fair Use… more »
May
14
Talk...
elections, certification/testing, reform, vendors, standards, open source, secrecy, privacy, patents, berkeley, problems, friends, research, policy, legal, education, iSchoolI gave my dissertation talk today. It went surprisingly well. I felt my delivery was smooth---with nary an ?um?---and people seemed interested! I?ve learned that I have to practice talks 3-4 times before I?m ready to give them. (and the ?p… more »
May
05
ACCURATE's Comments on the VVSG
elections, certification/testing, accessibility, reform, standards, news, secrecy, patents, berkeley, friends, research, policy, legalAaron Burstein (UC Berkeley Law) and I just finished a large regulatory filing that will be of interest to any of you election technology geeks out there. Enjoy and be sure to let us know if you have feedback (there's another round of comments sometime… more »
Oct
17
Carl Malamud, "(Re-)Defining the Public Domain"
system, elections, copyright, open source, patents, berkeley, photos, research, policy, usability, legal, podcasts, education[Carl Malamud] gave today's [Distinguished Lecture] at the [UC Berkeley School of Information] entitled, "(Re-)Defining the Public Domain". Audio of the event is [here][1] and some pictures are [here][2].
It was a fascinating talk -- almost a perf… more »
Sep
13
Richard Stallman Speaks at the iSchool
copyright, open source, patents, berkeley, photos, p2p, policy, DRM, legal, podcasts, iSchoolRichard Stallman gave the first [UC Berkeley School of Information distinguished lecture](http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/about/events/dls) of the year today on "Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks". Here's the abstract:
> Copyrig… more »