Well, this is just awfully depressing - Patry has quit blogging. Reason #2: Copyright law has abandoned its reason for being: to encourage learning and the creation of new works. Instead, its principal functions now are to preserve existing failed
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End of the Blog
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I have decided to end the blog, after doing around 800 postings over about 4 years. I regret closing the blog and I owe readers an explanation. There are two reasons. 1. The Inability or Refusal to Accept the Blog for What it is: A Personal Blog I have been a full-time copyright lawyer for 26 years. My late mother, aleha ha-shalom, told me repeatedly that I had a religious obligation to learn every day, and I have honored her memory by doing exactly that. Learning also involves changing how you think about things; it doesn't only mean reinforcing the existing views you already have.
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Patry No Longer on Copyright
http://www.robhyndman.com/2008/08/02/patry-no-longer-on-copy... -
End of an Era; End of a Blog
http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2008/08/end-of-an-era-e.htmlBill Patry has decided to stop his popular copyright law blog. He gives two reasons: Although the blog is his personal work, most folks who quote the blog draw some link to Google policy. (I'll do it here: Patry is Google's top copyright attorney).
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ThanThenHarvardHarvord..Screw YOU!
http://howardlindzon.com/?p=3770Of all the nasty comments I have gotten on this blog (many and more by personal email), most are aimed at my grammar. It really pisses people off. Even Jim Cramer just chimed in You swear a whole lot, but sometime you may want to learn the proper usage
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The closing of The Patry Copyright Blog
http://themoderatevoice.com/society/law-legal-matters/legal-...The closing of The Patry Copyright Blog August 3rd, 2008 by JOE WINDISH William Patry, who has been a full-time copyright lawyer for 26 years, is Googles Senior Copyright Counsel. For a long time before he held that position he had a personal blog, The
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Where Have You Gone Bill Patry? A Copyright Nation Turns Its Lonely Eyes to You
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Patry Copyright Blog shuts down
http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2008/08/patry-...I am sad to report that the fine copyright law blog, The Patry Copyright Blog, has shut down. One of the reasons the author gave is that his blog was becoming too negative because of the current state of copyright in law:Much like the U.S. economy,
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Patry quits: leading independent copyright blog closes
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/08/03/patry_quit...Patry quits: leading independent copyright blog closes Jack Schofield / Blogging 03:49pm William Patry, who has run the William Patry Copyright Blog for the past four years, has shut up shop. Who he? The site used to say that he was: Senior Copyright
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http://blog.openitstrategies.com/2009/04/web-20-conference-m...Stanford MS&E professor Bob Sutton posted an interesting update on his blog last week, announcing a social networking mini-conference this Thursday afternoon at the Stanford d.school: With speakers from Facebook and LinkedIn, the business model for the workshop is as expected: free! (Other speakers are from Apple, Netflix, Ning and Stanford’s own Huggy Rao). Reservations are via email or Facebook. [...]
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