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Blame Me. I’m From Massachusetts*

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

I’ve disliked Scott Brown, our senator-elect, since the Brown family PR machine started pumping articles about daughter Ayla into the local media about four years ago.  Anyone trying so hard for fame is suspect.  I’ll give him credit for campaigning well, tapping into the fear and uncertainty of a critical mass of the electorate.  Martha [...]

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No More Endorsements

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Last year a few students asked for my endorsement on LinkedIn.  I wrote a few, growing more uncomfortable with each about their lack of a specific audience and permanence online.  I decided last fall not to endorse anyone else on LinkedIn or comparable sites.  I didn’t have to apply my decision until yesterday, when I [...]

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Imagine a fair use

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Yesterday the trial court ruled against Yoko Ono and John Lennon’s sons, holders of the copyright to Lennon’s song “Imagine,” in their lawsuit against challenging use of 15 seconds of the song in Ben Stein’s film “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.” Ono et al did not want use of the song to appear to endorse [...]

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NY Online Sales Tax Fallout

Monday, May 19, 2008

Amazon continues to challenge NY’s recent law requiring the online retailer to collect and remit NY state sales taxes on sales to customers in the state, but meanwhile it will comply with the law when it becomes effective on June 1. New York asserts that Amazon’s New-York-based “affiliates,” third-party websites that link to Amazon [...]

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Like Coals to Newcastle

Saturday, December 16, 2006

“Fair play for musicians” sounds like something all fair-minded people should endorse. Like any marketing slogan one, it deserves critical examination. As used in a full-page advertisement in the Financial Times reported on by the Associated Press that I viewed here, “fair play” means extending British copyright protection for sound recordings beyond its current [...]

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Employees & abortion beliefs

Friday, September 8, 2006

Law.com recently reported on two employment cases involving terminations relating to the respective employee’s positions on abortion. They provide an interesting starting point for a discussion of employers’ right to terminate employees for personal beliefs.
In Curay-Cramer v. The Ursuline Academy of Wilmington, 2006 U.S. App. LEXIS 13956, (3rd. Cir. 2006) English teacher Michele Curay-Cramer sued [...]

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