Bill Patry has some notes from last weekend’s two-day symposium on appropriation art in NYC. Wished I could have been there, especially in light of Judge Leval’s comments:
At the same time, Judge Leval agreed that while fair use was invented by judges for judges (in order to promote learning and creativity), too many judges have [...]

All down in London of course, but for those of you who are interested…
Google UK Hiring.

For those of you back in Austin, Texas, Lessig will be speaking at the University of Texas on Thursday 20 February. [Link].

Two very interesting posts from the International Economic Law and Policy Blog caught my eye.
In Globalization of NASCAR, Simon Lester comments on the first ‘foreign’ car entry into the US sport of NASCAR — Toyota. For those of you unfamiliar with the sport, NASCAR has heretofore been limited (by tradition rather than explicit rules) to [...]

This interview serves as a reminder that it isn’t just having IP laws, but a structure and climate to encourage businesses to create the IP in the first place, that is important to growth. The Scotsman has an interview with Aisling Burnand of the BioIndustry Association, in which she mentions the need for government support [...]

Scottish firm Burness added a new partner — Colin Hulme — to the contentious side of its IP practice. [Herald].
From the story, Burness Chairman Philip Rodney mentions:
Colin and I developed a ground-breaking database that is capable of marshalling enormous amounts of information for big commercial cases.
Or at least I had the idea, and Colin put [...]

Novartis is learning the benefits of sharing gene information. Via Geist. [Link].
Canadians say their law on camcording in movie theatres is good enough already. Via Geist. [Link].
Finally some relief from bad web design. Myspace is to attempt to filter videos for potential copyright infringements. Maybe this will finally prevent all of those truly horrible browser-crashing [...]