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• Crawford on Telco Monopolies

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  Nice profile of Susan Crawford, highlighting her campaign against telco internet monopolies, by David Carr in today’s NYT.

  A taste of Telecom’s Big Players Hold Back the Future:

  Susan Crawford, a professor at [Cardozo School of Law], has written a book, “Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in [...]

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• EFF Is Accepting Bitcoins Again

  EFF Will Accept Bitcoins to Support Digital Liberty. This follows a 2-year moratorium.

  One key difference from past practice: EFF will liquidate any Bitcoins it receives as soon as it gets them.

  EFF’s announcement pointed me to this recent (March 18, 2013) Fincen guidance document, Application of FinCEN’s Regulations [...]

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• The Red Lionfish of Politics

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  How can this be?

  Most people are now familiar with President’s Obama’s proposal to cut Social Security by reducing the annual cost of living adjustment. While the final formula is somewhat convoluted, the net effect is to reduce benefits by an average of roughly 3.0 percent.

  Since Social Security benefits [...]

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• Space Derivations (Odd)

  The internets are going nuts over this stunning video remake of David Bowie’s Space Oddity, recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station.

  It’s a visually stunning video, a fun idea, the law prof discussion about the copyright implications of creating a derivative work in space have been [...]

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• Rep. Ros-Lehtinen Votes Against Overtime Pay

  Sooner or later, a record of voting against your constituents’ interests has to catch up with you, no matter how nice you are. Our own IRL voted to allow employers to take away overtime pay, which is currently required by law. Instead she would allow employers to choose to [...]

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• Mary Anne Franks Profiled in Ocean Drive

  My colleague Mary Anne Franks is the subject of an unusual (for a law professor) profile in the current issue of Ocean Drive magazine. For those unfamiliar with Ocean Drive, it is a big thick glossy thing aimed squarely at the handmaidens of the plutocracy. The magazine celebrates [...]

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• Sanctions Order in Prenda Law Case

  Judge Otis Wright issued a doozy of a sanctions order against Prenda Law, the notorious copyright trolls.

  I could have done without the Star Trek references, but given the overall context of the case, footnote five did make me laugh long and loud.

  Normally, I worry that when Judges try [...]

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• Sears Still Can’t Deliver

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  Tung Yin experiences Sears delivery. Sounds all too familiar.

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• Good Stuff Happens

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  Two good things happened yesterday:

  • The bill to provide a large public subsidy for the refurbishment of the the Miami Dolphin’s stadium died in Tallahassee. The combination of outrage over the fiasco of the Miami Marlins deal, and the fact that the team’s lead owner is a multi-billionaire seemed to [...]

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• Kevin Drum Is Shrill

  House Republicans Have Completely Melted Down:

  Apparently there are now two groups of Republicans in the House. First, there’s a group of firebrand conservatives headed by Eric Cantor, which, as near as I can tell, is mostly dedicated to finding slightly more slippery language to sell its usual right-wing [...]

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