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January 20, 2012
The Chinese View of SOPA
The New Yorker has a story on the Chinese view of SOPA:
Commentator Shi Han wrote about trying to post a comment to Tencent, the giant Chinese portal. “I’ve written a short article about SOPA. But when I tried to put it up, Tencent replied with a message: ‘Your content has not passed review.’”
Posted by Anupam Chander on January 20, 2012 at 06:39 AM in Digitization | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
January 17, 2012
SOPA Teach-In
No blackout, but a teach-in in lieu thereof:
Some thoughtful comments on SOPA:
Mark Lemley, David Levine & David Post--Stanford Law Review Online--Don't Break the Internet.
EFF, Stop the Internet Blacklist Legislation
Mozilla et al Letter on SOPA
Law Professors' Letter in Opposition to SOPA (I signed the letter)
TechDirt's Mike Masnick, Open Letter to Chris Dodd
Floyd Abrams' testimony in defense of the Protect IP Act
Posted by Anupam Chander on January 17, 2012 at 09:32 PM in Digitization | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
January 10, 2012
Should the United States Continue to Occupy Guantanamo?
Jonathan Hansen argues that we should return Guantanamo to the people of Cuba in an op-ed in the NY Times. I made a similar call five years ago in my piece, Quit Guantanamo in the SF Chronicle.
Posted by Anupam Chander on January 10, 2012 at 08:42 PM in Globalization | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
.XXX Operator Earns Millions from Those Worried About .XXX Names
The BNA's Thomas O'Toole has an important post on the exploitation of companies and others worried about a ".XXX" version of their trademark. He notes that this group has paid about millions to register .XXX names to block others from exploiting them.
ICM Registry Inc., the registry operator for the .xxx top-level domain, announced Nov. 1 that it sold nearly 80,000 domain registrations in the just-concluded Sunrise A and Sunrise B registration periods.
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These dollars represent an enormous tax on the trademark owner community with very little in the way of countervailing social benefit. It's true that nobody forced trademark owners to participate in the .xxx sunrise registration round. On the other hand, how many companies would risk tarnishment of their brand in .xxx if the cost of protection is a mere $299?
These registrations cost nearly $300 per domain, representing a massive expenditure of cash mostly by folks who want to be kept out of .xxx's adult content neighborhood.
Further demonstration of the poor choices made by ICANN.
Posted by Anupam Chander on January 10, 2012 at 04:23 AM in Digitization, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
January 02, 2012
Thank you, Gordon Hirabayashi
Gordon Hirabayashi, who, along with Fred Korematsu, Mitsuye Endo, and Min Yasui, challenged the unconstitutional and racist Internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, has passed away, according to a reliable report.
Lorraine K. Bannai, Professor of Legal Skills, Director, Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality, and a member of the Korematsu coram nobis team, is helping to organize a conference in his honor:
Posted by Anupam Chander on January 2, 2012 at 05:05 PM in Dissent, Globalization | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
