These are my links for 8th May 2007 through 10th May 2007:

• Balkinization – Straight Talk About Tenure – “But most of the time it [tenure] functions to confer immunity on professors to work as little as they please beyond teaching their assigned classes.”
• Column: Google Arming Itself for Battle with Viacom – “If a sign of how seriously a company takes a lawsuit is the attorney it hires to defend it, Google quietly made a major statement last week. Listed at the end of its 12-page response to Viacom’s (let’s say it all together now) billion-dollar copyright in
• Five Arrested in U.K.’s Largest Piracy Seizure – “About 800,000 pirated DVDs with a street value of more than £3;2 million ($4 million) were found in a raid on premises in Dudley, West Midlands. Counterfeit music CDs and video games also were seized.”
• Harvard Law School Professor Urges University to Resist the RIAA – Reproduction of Nesson’s letter to Harvard
• IP Protection, Competition Fuel Worries for Media Execs – “The executives said growth of user-generated content sites such as YouTube, MySpace and blogs are among the biggest threats to their business.”
• Beyond the Beyond – Wired Blogs – Stirling reprint of article on trademark infringement in Second Life.
• The P2P mistake at Ohio University | Perspectives | CNET News.com – The President of BitTorrent has an opinion piece on the ban on p2p at Ohio.
• FT.com / World – Forgery trade losses ?under $200bn? – “John Evans, head of the OECD?s trade union advis­ory committee , said IPR abuses were a serious problem but companies should not put all their ?political capital? into stronger legal penalties and campaigns against China and other countries. Im­p
• Shoot First Short Film Events – Home – Monday May 14th – Filmhouse, Edinburgh
• Untold London homepage – discover the history of London’s diverse communities – Interesting site on London
• Build A Solo Practice, LLC: Do You Need Anymore Reasons To Not Be Part of Big Law? – Recession and solo / small firm thoughts.
• No debate: Obama, Edwards, GOP bloggers support free access to footage – “The issue caught fire after MSNBC’s debate contract emerged, and the American public learned that the network was prohibiting all Internet redistribution and was also trying to control use of the footage by other television networks.”

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