Which is where I be 'casting these days. And Sound Policy will have a new episode soon too, on managing the risks of blogging.

A conference call with Mike Madison in anticipation of next week's Community 2.0 conference. Mike and I will be leading a session – The Legal Implications of Engaging Outsiders in Business Communities – on many of the issues discussed in the call as highlighted below.

2007.03.09 (MP3, 9.1MB); select a quote

• Defining community and loosely-joined individuals and interest groups
• Community goals and governance (or lack thereof)
• External innovation communities such as Procter & Gamble's and ownership issues
• Intellectual and liability concerns for company-owned or associated communities
• Whether an initiative similar to the Creative Commons movement has or is in the process of emerging
• Ownership issues and risk-minimization around products or services that emerge from external ideas
• Variations on open source licenses
• Individual rights and protections for community contributors and participants
• Anonymity and accountability
• Nefarious community exploitation: gaming, hacking, spamming
• Trust and reputation management
• The use of trademark law to use and manage community involvement; selective enforcement, the expansion of certification marks
• Insurance industry mechanisms and models
• Defamation
• Company-sponsored (and owned) communities, and the actions taken by participants who find the terms and conditions of such initiatives too draconian
• "Innovator's dilemma" management and patent strategy and the tension between old, successful products and those developed with help from outsourced customer communities
• Personal data ownership and the Attention Trust

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[Technorati tags: community 2.0, community2.0]

An interview with Bill Murray, senior fellow with the USC Annenberg School Center for the Digital Future, former Co-Chief Operating Officer of the Motion Picture Association, and principal of William Murray & Associates. Bill offers some interesting and insightful comments about the ramifications of the MGM v. Grokster decision, and the future of the entertainment industry and digital media.

2006.01.08 (MP3, 20.4MB); select a quote

• 2005 Digital Future Report
• Reed Smith bulletin on MGM v. Grokster

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[Technorati tags: Grokster; MPAA; william murray]

Some thoughts about BlogHer, playing with the new Speaker Wiki, a blawgs.com update, and looking forward to upcoming Sound Policy guest Bob Wyman.

2005.08.05 (MP3, 5MB); select a quote

Blog coverage of the BlogHer "Women who want to fund, build and sell things" panel:

• from Jeff Clavier
• from Tony Gentile
• from Tricia

The Speaker Wiki

My page on the Speaker Wiki (items at end pulled in via RSS — isn't that too darn cool?)

PubSub; Bob Wyman's blog

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[Technorati tags: BlogHer; bloghercon]

A look back at Gnomedex, and thoughts about an OPML blawg directory.

2005.06.29 (MP3, 4.8MB); select a quote

Blog coverage of the Gnomedex "Today's Digital Legalities" panel:

• from Arieanna at Blogaholics
• from MasterMaq
• from Navarik's Derek Miller
• from Sean Bohan
• from Jan Kabill

The panel in action (photo via Laughing Squid)

Marc Canter on Dave Winer's OPML editor demo

iPodder.org

OMPL.org

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[Technorati tag: Gnomedex2005]

Long podcast, short show notes, regarding new technologies and an old profession, and what happened next on Tuesday.

2005.05.19 (MP3, 12.1MB); select a quote

• Future of Legal Blogging article
• blogs; wikis; social networks; Gmail; syndication; podcasts; vlogs
• Yesterday [Tuesday] Morning
• Lyrics and chords, Splish Splash
• Lyrics and chords, Joy to the World (I think the movie I was trying to remember could be The Big Chill?)

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Today's podcast discusses fun with del.icio.us: aggregated feeds and traffic fragmentation, trackforwards, and "ICATT."

2005.04.03 (MP3, 4.1MB); select a quote

• del.icio.us; FeedBurner's SmartCast; BlawgCast.com; BlawgCast's feed explained
• Doug Kaye discusses concerns about being able to count listeners, and using a sampling license. Would commercially supported podcasters be put out by something like del.icio.us + SmartCast powered feeds? Presumably not, because all the download activity is directed to the original host, so the downloads can all be counted (given the right software; what is the right software, anyone?), and there's no copying involved. (As far as IT Conversations goes, links to media files are dynamically genrated, so I don't know/don't think this scenario would work with that material (?).) But the existence of good aggregated feeds might cause listeners to unsubscribe from the individual feeds being aggregated. Does anyone care?
• 3/31/05 Morning Coffee Notes; Steve Rubel's Micro Persuasion; Pitch.Me Del.icio.usly; del.icio.us tag micropersuasion
• (Dang, ICATT.org is taken)
• del.icio.us tag bagandbaggage; del.icio.us tag betweenlawyers; del.icio.us tag soundpolicy. Want to get my attention? Go to del.icio.us and tag something with one of these terms!

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Today's podcast discusses a lawyer's responsibilities with respect to technology and some related plawdcasts/blawgcasts, my Sound Policy show at IT Conversations, podriahs, personal productivity, and little boys.

2005.03.28 (MP3, 5.6MB); select a quote

• Kevin O'Keefe, Lawyers' moral obligation to blog – why not?
• The Rethink(IP)Aloud podcast
• Gary Kendra, Sype'n
• Mark Pilgrim, Dive Into Accessibility; W3
• Jon Healey in the LA Times: "The entertainment and technology industries' most important legal dispute in two decades hinges on a question Hollywood confronts every day: What makes a bad actor?" Copyfight; The Importance Of...; Boing Boing; Deep Links
• Sound Policy; first show; show on deck
• JurisPundit, Technology is bad mmmkay...
• David Allen's Getting Things Done
• Michael Gurian's The Wonder of Boys

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Today's podcast (in 2 parts) covers intriguing tidbits from Lawrence Lessig and others; more on the ASCAP podcasting license; good deals and bad taste at Amazon; a gadget-loving Aussie; lawyers and podcasting; and a preview of podcasting attractions.

2005.02.24, part 1 (MP3, 2.8MB); select a quote

• Some things Lessig: Free Culture; Free Culture audio all-in-one at Archive.org (yay AKMA!); "The work of a lawyer is always derivative...;" current Wired column Why Your Broadband Sucks, and audio (feed is same as Lessig Blog? dunno yet)
• Steve Holden; Tech Rag Tear Outs (and more)

2005.02.24, part 2 (MP3, 7.5MB); select a quote

• ASCAP podcast license
• Amazon Prime; Paris Hilton @ Amazon.com
• ThePodcastNetwork's The Gadget Show and The Mobiles Show
• plawdcasts; two more; Information Week, New iPods Debut And A Marketing Medium, Too
• Doug Kaye; IT Conversations; scanner bidding frenzy!

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Today's podcast covers quoteplay, more on RSS and copyright, podcasting and copyright, some exist-entialism, and tech left out of Minority Report.

2005.02.14 (MP3, 6.2MB); select a quote

• Matt Round: Malevole, Malevolent Design; quoteplay; sites using quoteplay
• Sieblogs.com and irony; context
• ASCAP license for "pod-casts," among other things; Technorati link cosmos for same
• Happy Valentine's Day: Google loves me, it loves me not
• A William Gibson/Bruce Sterling moment: RSS as jet fuel for The Support Economy (or fodder for Dogbert)

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With the kind permission of Phil Becker, I'm pleased to add the 3 Digital ID World panels in which I've participated to the Bag and Baggage podcast. (MP3s: 2002; 2003; 2004) The subject of these talks was digital rights management (2002 and 2003) and trusted computing (2004), and they were expertly moderated by David Weinberger (2002), Cory Doctorow (2003), and Dan Gillmor (2004). It's interesting to track the differences in the DRM discussion between '02 and '03. Here are some of my notes from the trusted computing session:

• Trusted Computing Panel Prep

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This week's podcast (MP3) looks at protopodcasting, who's reformation is it anyway?, metadata (friend or foe), and a very Wired courtroom.

• January, 1999 article on Audible and the Audible Mobile Player; Epinions reviews; EGR; me, in August '02, so quick to ditch the black-and-turquoise "ear" for one of the first iPods (and one of the first podcasts); March '00 interview with Audible founder Don Katz ("We invented the first Internet peripheral, the Audible Mobile Player. And it's actually in the Smithsonian, officially, which is appropriate since we're no longer making the Mobile Player. Happily, because we don't have to.")
• Martin Luther's 95 theses; The Cluetrain Manifesto; Doc Searls, Cheap Talk; Hugh Hewitt's Blog
• Metadata: bug or feature? Attention Deficit: disorder or skill? Attention.XML; Steve Gillmor, Attention Please! Your Metadata Is Showing!
• Wired 13.02, For Verdict, Click Here ("yes, the CTO is a total geek;" link added)

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Today's podcast (MP3) discusses the sometimes uneasy relationship between bloggers and employers, as well as the corollary: how bloggers can improve the sometimes uneasy relationship between businesses and the world. I also check in on the continuing discussion concerning RSS and commercial or other unlicensed use, plug an event that hopes to turn lawyers into innovators, congratulate someone who's making the Technorati Top 100 safe for plawdcasters, and thank Doc (again).

• Getting "dooced"
• dooce.com; "I got fired because of dooce.com."
• Employment law blogs
• The Groove Networks weblog policy
• Microsoft Community Blogs: "You can use the directory below to find weblogs about Microsoft technologies written by Microsoft employees. Use these blogs to get insights and opinions about using (and creating!) Microsoft technology and software."
• Channel 9
• The Blogging, Journalism, and Credibility conference at Harvard; John Palfrey's recap; conference weblog aggregator
• Dave Winer's Morning Coffee Notes for January 13, 2005
• ZDNet's David Berlind, Can Technology Close Journalism's Credibility Gap?
• Beth Goza
• Phillip Torrone
• J. Craig Williams has it on good authority that Disney will blog
• Robert Scoble's Corportate Weblog Manifesto
• Marty Schwimmer's latest update regarding his Bloglines request: "[C]an aggregators accomodate bloggers who wish to maintain the non-commercial nature of their feeds? I will guess that if Bloglines offers a commercial opt-out, its business model will still work."
• Russell Beattie: "I've come to the conclusion that since commercial search engines and aggregators don't charge for the content they serve, they should not be subject to non-commercial licenses or general copyright infringement." Russell wonders about RSS use restrictions in the same post: "If the RSS license *required* you to allow syndication of that content for personal and commercial services in order to use that format, this would solve many of these problems."
• LexThink!, April 3, 2005, Chicago. "Many people always ask 'Why?' There are also some who ask 'Why not?' We're the second kind. How about you?
• LexThink! fodder: Moira Gunn's podcast with Frans Johansson (author of The Medici Effect: Breakthrough Insights at the Intersection of Ideas, Concepts, and Cultures) at IT Conversations
• Plawdcaster Bret Fausett, 80 on the Technorati Top 100. (The Volokh Conspiracy and Glenn Reynolds, 36 and 2, respectively.)
• FeedBurner: Using SmartCast with your feed
• Doc Searls; Doc Sears; The Baby Book; the sling; The Successful Child

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Today's podcast (MP3) has more about my phone (which podcasts, slices, dices, and might just fold the laundry). I also talk about RSS and commercial or other unlicensed uses of a work (see Saturday's post), a cavalcade of OC podcasters, and conclude with a glimpse at legal AI. Related links:

• The Sony Ericsson K700i.
• Link cosmos for Marty Schwimmer's post Saturday about Bloglines.
• Robert Scoble rounds up several related posts: The RSS copyright can of worms is open. Includes a pointer to this classic headline from Shelley Powers: Take your hands off the Tech and back away slowly.
• More from Robert Scoble: "Yesterday was a sad day for me. It was the day that DRM in RSS was born."
• John Palfrey on this topic on April 7, 2003, July 11, 2003 and July 14, 2003: "I very often hear technical people rely on fair use as a reason for doing something, and those people are almost always overstating its reach."
• Jason Calacanis also recently discussed commercial versus noncommercial use of syndicated material: RSS Abuse: What's fair use and what's abuse. (or Skweezer gets it wrong).
• The Daily Whirl.
• Marty Schwimmer on March 27, 2003: Aggregators: I would like to clarify our agreement.
• The Creative Commons RSS Module.
• Burning Questions, the official FeedBurner weblog: Creative Commons, Feed Splicing, and Merged Licenses.
• Blogger's help topic on Syndication.
• The Gillmor Gang, with guest Adam Bosworth. (Possibly relevant to the debate about the unique nature of RSS; the point that caught my ear was the redistribution of bandwidth discussion at 48:50 - 51:20.)
• The Orange County Podcast Users Group (via Steve Holden). Lenn Pryor, come on down!
• MIT's Technology Review, February 2005 issue.
• Legal AI: JustSys.

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Today's podcast (MP3) features an interview with Wallace Wang, author of Steal This File Sharing Book. Wallace and I discuss the future of P2P networks, nefarious knitters, macchiato moms, the Grokster decision, the economics of digital media, and — what podcast would be complete without a little porn? Links to items related to today's 'cast follow.

• Bill Wallo at Blogcritics, Steal This File Sharing Book
• The Skinner Sisters' List of pattern copies [they've] found on the Internet
• EFF, Making P2P Pay Artists
• Harvard Law Bulletin, Up on Downloading
• EFF case archive, MGM v. Grokster
• Adam Curry's Daily Source Code
• The Lascivious Biddies
• Chris Anderson's The Long Tail
• Ourmedia
• (Sorry, I couldn't find a link that seemed to be the "Pornster" Wallace mentioned. If your search results are more productive than mine, please let me know.)

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Greetings, and welcome to the inaugural Bag and Baggage Podcast (MP3). Or should I say Plawdcast. I'm mostly posting this to see if I can, it's short and sweet. If this works ok, look (and listen) for more B&B podcasts down the road. Here's the podcast feed to subscribe to with iPodder or similar software. Links to items related to today's 'cast follow.

• Creative Commons Attibution Non-Commercial 2.0 license
• Sony Ericsson P800
• Sony Ericsson K700i; Adam Curry on same
• Rick Klau's less than excellent adventure with AT&T/Cingular
• MacAddict
• Engadget: How-To: Step by Step Guide to recording Podcasts on the Mac using Quicktime Broadcaster; HOW-TO: Record all audio playing through your Mac; How-To: Podcasting (aka How to get Podcasts and also make your own)
• My guest blog at The Industry Standard
• Wallace Wang's Steal This File Sharing Book
• Doc Searls, Podcasting Isn't Webcasting
• Engadget on Michael Powell and satellite radio
• Belly Up to the Bar
• Mad Kane's tortured verse
• Slate: All the President's Lawyers

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