Law X.0

Experts Say Use of Video Clips on YouTube May Be OK

American University law Professors Pat Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi finds that many online videos creatively use copyrighted materials in ways that are eligible for fair use consideration under copyright law. Details on Law Librarian Blog. [JH]

The First 100 Dot Com Domains

The below list has been making the web rounds lately. No Microsoft but Xerox, IBM, Sun and Intel jumped on the Internet bandwagon pretty early in the game.

Where are they today? Here's the web page placeholder text from the first listed site:

"Symbolics is currently a privately held company which acquired the assets and intellectual property of the old public company called Symbolics, Inc. The old Symbolics was the premier producer of special-purpose computer systems for running and developing state-of-the-art object-oriented programs in Lisp. It designed and built workstations as well as writing a fully object-oriented operating system and development environment called "Genera" to run on those workstations. Symbolics also created a number of software tools to work with Genera.  The new Symbolics continues to sell and maintain these products, along with Open Genera which runs on Alpha processor based workstations running Tru64 Unix.  If you would like to know why you should be interested in developing your application in Genera, click here to see 25 reasons. Symbolics also distributes the Macsyma and PDEase software products for Windows PCs."

SYMBOLICS.COM BBN.COM THINK.COM MCC.COM DEC.COM NORTHROP.COM XEROX.COM SRI.COM HP.COM BELLCORE.COM IBM.COM SUN.COM INTEL.COM TI.COM ATT.COM GMR.COM TEK.COM FMC.COM UB.COM BELL-ATL.COM GE.COM GREBYN.COM ISC.COM NSC.COM STARGATE.COM BOEING.COM ITCORP.COM SIEMENS.COM PYRAMID.COM ALPHACDC.COM BDM.COM FLUKE.COM INMET.COM KESMAI.COM MENTOR.COM NEC.COM RAY.COM ROSEMOUNT.COM VORTEX.COM ALCOA.COM GTE.COM ADOBE.COM AMD.COM DAS.COM DATA-IO.COM OCTOPUS.COM PORTAL.COM TELTONE.COM 3COM.COM AMDAHL.COM CCUR.COM CI.COM CONVERGENT.COM DG.COM PEREGRINE.COM QUAD.COM SQ.COM TANDY.COM TTI.COM UNISYS.COM CGI.COM CTS.COM SPDCC.COM APPLE.COM NMA.COM PRIME.COM PHILIPS.COM DATACUBE.COM KAI.COM TIC.COM VINE.COM NCR.COM CISCO.COM RDL.COM SLB.COM PARCPLACE.COM UTC.COM IDE.COM TRW.COM UNIPRESS.COM DUPONT.COM LOCKHEED.COM ROSETTA.COM TOAD.COM QUICK.COM ALLIED.COM DSC.COM SCO.COM GENE.COM KCCS.COM SPECTRA.COM WLK.COM MENTAT.COM WYSE.COM CFG.COM MARBLE.COM CAYMAN.COM ENTITY.COM KSR.COM NYNEXST.COM

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[JH]

Beware of Potentially Deceptive Fee-Based Music Download Services

Check out The Center for Democracy & Technology's Music Download Warning List. The list identifies providers who offer but may not have large inventories of music files and who also may not have obtained permission to sell the files they list. [JH]

The Top 10 Wireless Trends for 2008

Fortune's Michael Lev-Ram's writes that 2008 promises to be just as eventful [as 2007], starting with the FCC’s spectrum auction in January in The Top 10 Wireless Trends for 2008. The trends I'm looking forward to the most are (1) cell phones based on Google's Android mobile platform and (2) a greater variety of all-touch cell phones. [JH]

Start 2008 Off by Joining the Blogosphere

screencastcentral is producing a series of "Blogging for Beginners" videos using WordPress. They're hosted on Crackle. Here's the first video and here's a Crackle search that will retrieve them all. [JH]

RIP Netscape Navigator

AOL has announced that Netscape Navigator, the browser that launched the commercial Internet in October 1994, will die on February 1, 2008. AOL acquired Netscape in November 1998 for $4.2 billion (ouch). [JH]

Why Kindle Won't Be Adopted by Law School Students

Gene Koo, CALI Fellow and co-editor of Law School Innovation explains why Kindle won't "catch fire" in law schools. He writes " I don't think Kindle will replace paper casebooks in the near-term because it's less functional than a paper book for study purposes without adding obvious digital/network features for study purposes." He thinks the eBook features of Aspen's Studydesk offer far greater potential. I concur. See Beyond the Kindle Hype. Check out Gene's post. [JH]