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Lessig is more
Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig recently argued the case of Eldred v. Ashcroft before the Supreme Court. This is the "Free the mouse" case -- the argument against letting Congress continue to extend the term of copyright each time (to cite one example) Mickey Mouse is on the verge of entering the public domain.
The case has been covered widely and deeply, but I found Lessig's notes on his blog, posted after the oral arguments, fascinating and well worth reading for anyone interested, not only in the substance of the case, but in the process of Supreme Court jurisprudence.
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Scariest item of the week -- and it's only Monday
From yesterday's N.Y. Times Week in Review, a brief item noting that an asteroid entered the earth's atmosphere in June somewhere over the Mediterranean and exploded with the force of a Hiroshima-strength nuclear bomb. U.S. instruments detected the explosion and properly identified it as the random natural event it was. A U.S. officer quoted in the story asks us to imagine that the asteroid had been poised over, say, India or Pakistan: "To our knowledge, neither of those nations have the sophisticated sensors that can determine the difference between a natural N.E.O. ["near earth object"] impact and a nuclear detonation."
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