Fall Classes

0 comments By Jarred March 26th, 2011 @ 10:46 am
Posted in Law School

We registered for fall classes this week.  Luckily, I got into everything I wanted:

  • Business Associations
  • Evidence
  • Patent Law
  • European Union Internet Law

Hopefully I will also be on a journal in the fall, and Legal Skills will continue as well.  The EU Internet Law class should be interesting.  It’s a one week, one credit course taught by a professor from Spain.  Unfortunately they only offer “regular” Internet Law over the summer, so this is my only chance to get an Internet-focused class.  I’m looking forward to my first IP course with Patent Law, too.  I jumped on a wait list for a First Amendment course, but there are 30+ people ahead of me for the 35-seat class.

Responding to Copyhype’s “Copyright and Buggy Whips”

0 comments By Jarred March 14th, 2011 @ 9:15 pm
Posted in Thoughts

Terry Hart at Copyhype criticizes the “buggy whip” analogy often used by copyright critics to disparage the content industry.  Hart makes some fair points, but I found that he largely misinterpreted the analogy and thereby ignores its central point.  Though it would be best to read his post in full to get the entire context, here are some pertinent quotes:

“The buggy-whip analogy [...] describes a business that refuses to adapt in the face of technological innovation. When automobiles replaced horse-drawn carriages, buggy-whip manufacturers either had to change their business models or risk obsolescence.

How are content industries like buggy-whip manufacturers? It’s not like they are making something no one wants. People haven’t switched entirely to new forms of entertainment; people haven’t to a large extent embraced alternatives to the content created by traditional industries. [...] To put it another way, if media industries are making buggy-whips, and buggy-whips are obsolete, why are people pirating buggy-whips?”

I responded in a comment, but wanted to reproduce it here for my archival purposes as well as to invite your own thoughts.

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EFF Yeah

1 comment By Jarred March 10th, 2011 @ 5:11 pm
Posted in Announcements

I’m excited to share that I’ll be spending the summer as a legal intern with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in San Francisco.  I’m not sure yet what I’ll be specifically working on, but I’ll generally be conducting research, drafting briefs and memoranda, and otherwise lending a hand wherever I can be useful.  I’m looking forward to a great summer of hard work and lots of learning!

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