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copyright law

How convoluted is the US copyright law? The following flowchart was created by Bromberg & Sunstein, an intellectual property law firm, as an in-house flow-chart to help their lawyers figure it out.

Hillary wins Penn

The Democratic Primaries? STILL not over. I think it’s funny how upset everyone is that Hillary won’t drop out. She has money, she has a campaign team, she’s winning states, why shouldn’t she run all the way to the convention? Isn’t that the point of the convention, to select the general election nominee? I mean, [...]

“lullaby for our times”

I have a new favorite children’s song.

Taxing Time

Once a year, the government decides that, instead of being a competent musician and decent professor, I should spend several hours pretending to be an accountant. It’s Gretchen’s favorite time of year, because she sits huddled up in the corner of the couch glancing over with frightened puppy-dog eyes as I make bellowing grunts of [...]

Teri on NPR

If you tune in to NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” with Neal Conan today, you will hear our very own Teri Reisser as one of the guests. She didn’t tell us what she’s talking about, but you can guess based on this news coming out last week, and Teri’s work in the field.
(update) Listen online [...]