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Two random questions I’d be grateful for a reply on. Reply to this disposable email address:

(1) Has anyone heard from Andrew Orlowski — via email — in the past six weeks?

(2) There’s an ad running on some network with two guys at a bar talking about drug legalization. It is an anti-legalization ad. I’d be grateful for any help in tracking it down. Continue reading →

Donna “Copyfight” Wentworth is blogging Harvard Berkman Center’s iLaw program here in Brazil. The Berkman Center does this every six months or so, at least once a year in a very interesting place — and this will qualify as the most amazing place for many years. Yesterday, John Perry Barlow and Brazil’s Minister of Culture, Gilberto Gil, debated the economics of culture. Barlow is in great form, and Gil is an extraordinary speaker. Most extraordinary was to hear him quote Jefferson and Barlow in Portuguese.

So we’re trying to focus on Internet Law, but the truth is, it is impossible to be here, as an American, without the war raining down everywhere. Barlow sits next to me browsing war webpages. Student’s won’t stop asking. And I, ever wanting to believe, remain stumped.

Then there are minor wars: I’ve been asked not to praise MIT in the way I did. The reality of this world: one can do good, but others can’t talk about it. Continue reading →

The Future of Ideas has been translated into Japanese. As sometimes happens, the translation improves the book. Not only is the title better (“Commons”, which the American publisher vetoed), but it also has a great and revealing introduction by the translator, Hiroo Yamagata. As always, the translator reveals as much about the work he translates as the world he translates into. Continue reading →

So I’ve never received an “F” before, so don’t blame me for appealing c|Net’s grade…. Continue reading →

Alex Golub’s got a scathing review of my OSCON talk. Completely right. This is why I’m moving on from this, quickly. But he also has at the same link a really great song…. Continue reading →

I’ve been hiding for the last few weeks trying to finish the reply brief in the Eldred case. (Check out the briefs on the other side. My favorite is the RIAA’s, which begins “The RIAA and its members are dedicated defenders of the First Amendment and vigorously oppose government-sponsored censorship in all its forms.” That’s apparently the mini-me version of the RIAA. Also check out Bumperactive.com which is giving away free (as in beer) “Free the Mouse” bumperstickers. ) But today I started getting a bunch of frantic emails from people telling me that I needed to respond to Dave… Continue reading →