Should mention - I started calling it that when I realized how much I was letting similar problems keep me from starting research and writing tasks, as a reminder that "just pick a spot and start" is never ideal, but nearly always works.

Ehhh...less sure about that. Don't think how much the research matters is really that different from most other areas of academics.

Yeah, that's what I call a "the chicken or the egg problem." The whole system is pretty broken. So much so that it's nearly incomprehensible to some our colleagues abroad (as I learned when trying to explain it).

I'd also put the lack of academic rigor, as compared with other fields in the US, and as compared with legal academics abroad, high on the list of the US academy's problems.

Having to take research methods classes was a pain in the ass, but such an eye-opener.

That doesn't help either, but even if such requirements/traditions/norms existed in the US academy, the current publication system would be woefully inadequate as a means of enforcing them.

Also worth noting: peer review isn't just a safety mechanism. It's part of good research practice.

Which aspects of tech, or, I guess, what definition of tech?

That would be a necessary but insufficient punishment for that one.

Copyright is national, not global. So courts in other countries are going to laugh at the 5th, and hold that the person with the "revoked" license there can go right on using it.

The 5th circuit says that a law that lets copyright owners revoke assignments and licenses after a couple of decades have passed applies to the global copyright, not just the American copyright. Which is actually kinda good for creators. Except that it doesn't work like that.

No, because the courts in their country are almost certainly not bound by the 5th Circuit.

You know that metaphor for messing up? The one involving the pooch? If it involved real dogs instead of metaphorical ones, the 5th Circuitnl would have a lot of puppies on the way.

A reporter doing it raises the odds that it is fair use by at least an order of magnitude. As to the reporter's use, that is. Google's use....yeah.

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My wife had to do her last renewal after a tour as an exchange officer. "Foreign friends" was fun that time.

Agree with the sentiment completely, but also this is kinda a tribute to how jarring the universe is now - because I just remembered that the camera getting to you during "goodnight sweetheart" was my signal to go to bed.

*"Seems to be talking about" is probably more accurate. Might just be the hour here, but I'm having some trouble clearly understanding what he's going on about.

The real problem he's got is that the law generally doesn't impose the kind of unlimited strict liability he's talking about on anybody.

Dunno. One of the issues that I think this guy is missing is that, outside the USA, social media companies aren't treated that dissimilarly from publications - give or take a bit of the kind of natural evolution in the law I suspect we would have seen here absent 230.