http://importance.corante.com/ en-us ernest.miller@aya.yale.edu 2005-06-24T12:32:23-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/24/grokster_brand_x_issues_of_openness_its_all_about_the_distribution_baby.php Prof. Michael Madison points to the debate over Brand X that is starting on Picker MobBlog (MobBlawg LiftOff). [Btw, Picker calls his site MobBlog. I like Madison's MobBlawg better.] Michael agrees with one of the MobBlawggers that Brand X may... 6199@http://importance.corante.com/ Network Law 2005-06-24T12:32:23-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/15/yes_google_is_a_media_company_so_what.php A little over a week ago, there was quite a lot of chatter regarding Google's stock market valuation. It culminated in the announcement that Google's stock valuation had passed Time Warner's thus making Google, briefly, the most valuable "media company"... 6055@http://importance.corante.com/ Network Law 2005-06-15T11:12:41-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/09/some_ironies_of_our_telecomm_regulatory_structure.php The Progress and Freedom Foundation Blog makes the point (once again, but it needs much repeating) that all this recent talk of treating "like services alike" in the case of IPTV is pretty ironic given the balkanization of our current... 5987@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-09T18:49:38-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/07/in_search_of_a_positive_agenda_for_the_copyfight.php My friend, Prof. Beth Noveck, has written (not for the first time) about the need for a progressive political agenda with regard to cyberlaw on her Cairns Blog (Positive Cyber-Progressivism).I say "as usual" not because I am playing social critic... 5937@http://importance.corante.com/ News 2005-06-07T13:51:45-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/07/a_reply_to_dennis_kennedy_michael_madison_and_marty_schwimmer_on_ipods_distribution_and_copyright.php Corante's Between Lawyers has an questioning post by Dennis Kennedy about the problems with current copyright law in handling typical consumer uses of copyrighted works (iPods and Time-shifting: Fair Use, Personal Use and the Digital Copyright Morass).We now live in... 5933@http://importance.corante.com/ Copyright 2005-06-07T11:22:13-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/07/cutting_edge_legal_research.php Orin Kerr of the Volokh Conspiracy points to a fascinating article about network theory and legal citations (The Web of Law). The article by Thomas Smith is here: The Web of Law. Now imagine if we didn't have to rely... 5932@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-07T09:49:54-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/05/journalisms_coming_age_of_enlightenment.php Jay Rosen has written another of his insightful pieces on the state of modern journalism, today finding the connections between J-School reform and the press mythology of Watergate (Deep Throat, J-School and Newsroom Religion). Read the whole thing, but the... 5913@http://importance.corante.com/ Journalism 2005-06-05T20:29:38-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/05/28/issues_of_future_copyright.php Findlaw's Julie Hilden looks through a mirror, darkly, at copyright law issues of the future (Will the Future Bring Even More Important Copyright Issues Than The Ones Raised by Online File-Swapping?). Hilden is writing in response to the 8-minute web... 5815@http://importance.corante.com/ Copyright 2005-05-28T16:30:47-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/05/27/the_opening_of_the_frontier.php Ben Compaine, author of Who Owns the Media?, analogizes citizens media to the frontier, as in Frederick Jackson Turner's The Frontier In American History (Peercasting as the New Western Frontier).[I]n 1893 [Turner] presented his view that the key component to... 5796@http://importance.corante.com/ Internet 2005-05-27T15:26:34-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/05/24/building_the_bottom_up_from_the_top_down.php Prof. Michael Froomkin has published the introduction and final section of the conference draft of "Building the Bottom Up from the Top Down," a paper that he'll be giving at a seminar in Paris this weekend. As the title implies,... 5720@http://importance.corante.com/ Internet 2005-05-24T09:23:11-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/05/17/common_carrier_would_keep_cable_companies_from_blocking_competitors_ads.php The New York Times reminds us, yet again, why we need common carriage regulation (Phone Companies Shut Out of Local Cable for Some Ads):For years, Comcast, Cox and other major cable providers have routinely denied requests from direct competitors to... 5662@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-05-17T15:46:14-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/05/16/brand_x_transcript_and_thoughts_on_common_carriage.php Prof. Susan Crawford recommends the oral argument transcript for the "Brand X" case regarding classification of cable modem service by the FCC, which wanted to exempt cable modems from the common carrier obligations telephony DSL providers had to meet (Brand... 5654@http://importance.corante.com/ Network Law 2005-05-16T22:49:10-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/05/16/the_new_gatekeepers.php There ia an absolutely fascinating series about the market for attention on Civilities. The summary would be a good place to start (The NewGatekeepers, Part 6: A Summary). I don't nessarily agree with everything said, particularly in Part 7, Solutions,... 5649@http://importance.corante.com/ Network Law 2005-05-16T11:55:11-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/05/10/if_the_content_is_free_why_use_cable.php MediaDailyNews has an interesting article explaining why video-on-demand services aren't thriving (Users Don't Want VOD To Be C.O.D., Want It Free):THE LACK OF FREE CONTENT appears to be supressing demand for video-on-demand (VOD) television services, suggests new research from Forrester... 5565@http://importance.corante.com/ Network Law 2005-05-10T06:08:40-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/05/09/the_new_normal_why_content_and_distribution_should_be_separate.php This entry on The New Normal blog may be a couple of months old, but I just came across it (Entropy: Why Content And Distribution Should Be Separate). The argument is simple: content companies that aren't dependent on control over... 5562@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-05-09T21:29:36-08:00