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Today's Fresh Blogs...| How the Copyright Office Hurts Bloggers |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 1:51 pm |
| Tags: Punditry, Legal Issues, Articles, Dmca, Cmi, Content Theft, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Copyright Office, Law, Mpaa, Plagiarism, Registration, Riaa, Usco |
| The same copyright system that allows the RIAA to go on a rampage of lawsuits and empowers movie studios to cripple fair use of their work is tying the hands of small copyright holders on the Web. Worst hit of all are the bloggers, who often endure the worst kinds of infringement only to discover that they have no ability to enforce their rights. |
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| Global Warming Litigation Radio Appearance |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 4:01 pm |
| Tags: Punditry |
| I'm scheduled to be on Ron Smith's WBAL talk show today at 1:35 PDT (4:35 EDT) to talk about my Examiner column on global warming lawsuits. You can listen live here. |
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| Carter on Generation 9/11 |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 2:34 pm |
| Tags: Punditry |
| Phil Carter takes Dean Barnett to the blogosphere woodshed:In the same breathless style of reporting that exemplified Tom Brokaw's book "The Greatest Generation," last week's issue of the Weekly Standard featured a package of articles on the "9/11 Generation." In the lead article, Dean Barnett contrasts the current generation with the one that |
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| Global Warming Litigation |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 4:44 am |
| Tags: Punditry |
| In a column for the Examiner newspaper chain, I address the coming flood of global warming litigation and argue:Let's assume, for the sake of argument, that the climate change phenomenon commonly called "global warming" exists and is being caused, at least in part, by human activity. Who is responsible? The only sensible answer is, everybody. We |
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| Divesting Terror |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 9:14 pm |
| Tags: Punditry |
| Michael O'Brien on NRO:An emerging trend in finance and politics across the country is a focus on so-called terror-free investments. Individuals and states alike are increasingly taking time to ensure that the stock they hold is certified as terror-free, meaning that they have no holdings in any government designated by the State |
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| Hewitt and Reynolds on Steyn on Black with Strine in the Wings |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 7:59 pm |
| Tags: Punditry |
| Hugh Hewitt recently linked Mark Steyn's wrap up column on the Conrad Black trial, in which Steyn opined:Lord Black of Crossharbour is now a convicted felon. And those of us who believe he's innocent of any crime have to acknowledge that reality.Hugh concludes: "Steyn is so skilled at his craft, he could have made TimesSelect work." Glenn |
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| Should the GOP Duck the Youtube Debate? |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 7:33 pm |
| Tags: Punditry |
| Over at Hugh Hewitt's blog, regular contributor Patrick Ruffini says the GOP ought to do the CNN/Youtube debate. Regular Hewitt blog contributor Dean Barnett says he cares "very little about" the debate itself, than launches into an analysis of why the Democrats seem to be doing better online than the GOP. Barnett goes on to note that:The right |
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| Journalism's "Public Function" |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 2:29 pm |
| Tags: Punditry |
| Journalists seem to have convinced themselves that they aren't part of a business. Case in point, James Fallows:... as is obvious as soon as you think about it, the press has cultural, social, and political effects beyond the purely commercial. But its managers are being forced to make decisions on the same focused quarterly-returns basis that |
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| The Republicans and Kids Today |
| Published: July 29, 2007, 2:31 am |
| Tags: Punditry |
| Andrew Sullivan:A new study (PDF) finds a devastating collapse of support for the GOP among the next generation. Money quote:Young people react with hostility to the Republicans on almost every measure and Republicans and younger voters disagree on almost every major issue of the day. The range of the issue disagreements range from the most |
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| No End in Sight |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 3:24 pm |
| Tags: Punditry |
| UCLA law grad and former Army officer Phil Carter, who served in Iraq, reports:I attended a screening of the new Iraq documentary "No End in Sight" in Los Angeles which was co-sponsored by the Center for American Progress and USC's Center for Public Diplomacy. (The movie is reviewed today in the New York Times.) Bottom line up front: go see this |
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| Spitzer, 18 USC 1001, and a Question for New York Lawyers |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 2:33 am |
| Tags: Punditry |
| The W$J reports:With the disclosure this week that close aides misused state police in an effort to damage a Republican rival, [NY Governor Eliot] Spitzer is facing the same kind of high-profile scrutiny that he was famous for inflicting upon others -- from Wall Street executives to radio conglomerates -- as New York's attorney general. In a role |
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| Bruno on Spitzer |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 3:11 pm |
| Tags: Punditry |
| Republican New York Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno was the fellow who NY Governor Eliot Spitzer's administration spied. In the W$J, he writes:New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer is now traveling the state trying to put a scandal behind him that risks enveloping his administration. It's going to be a hard task. Here's what we know, thanks to some |
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| Time to Cut and Run? |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 7:01 pm |
| Tags: Punditry |
| James Joyner blogs:As our ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, recently told Congress, We are buying time at a cost of the lives of our soldiers. Unfortunately, the signs that those lives are buying much progress on that front are non-existent. Further, the American public's patience with the war has already worn out and we have only a few |
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| Guest Blogging for Sullivan |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 9:10 pm |
| Tags: Punditry |
| For the next week, I'll be guest blogging at Andrew Sullivan's place (as well as crossposting here). Here's the guest crew:I'm psyched to say that four of my favorite bloggers have agreed to guest-blog for me on the Dish until August 13, when I'll be back. They are Bruce Bartlett, author of "Impostor" and one of the bravest conservatives |
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| Time to Cut and Run? |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 7:01 pm |
| Tags: Punditry |
| James Joyner blogs:As our ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, recently told Congress, ???We are buying time at a cost of the lives of our soldiers.??? Unfortunately, the signs that those lives are buying much progress on that front are non-existent. Further, the American public???s patience with the war has already worn out and we have only a few |
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