Title: Wendy.Seltzer.org: Legal Tags, the Blog

Source/Sponsoring Agency: Seltzer, Wendy

URL: http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/

Date Checked: 6/26/2009      Status: Active

Date Annotated: 4/16/2008

Topics: Communications Law; Computer Law; Constitutional Law; Intellectual Property Law; Science And Technology; Civil Rights;

Other keywords: Copyright; Court decisions; Information Law; Telecommunications; Telecommunications Law; Digital Millennium Copyright Act; DMCA;Digital rights management; DRM

Contents: This focused, readable blog is maintained by Wendy Seltzer, a visiting professor at American University and a fellow with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. The blog discusses copyright issues and disputes, especially those involving online or digital content, file sharing, digital rights management (DRM) and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Ms. Seltzer regularly tracks issues over time with multiple entries, for example tracking court cases from argument through to final ruling. Ms. Seltzer has a clear anti-DMCA and anti-DRM viewpoint but takes care to demonstrate how overzealous use of the DMCA and DRM is self-defeating for creators and licensors, as it often alienates customers and makes digital content less widely available to potential audiences. The site has a search engine and numerous features to aid in locating specific entries. The site's tone of writing is a good mixture of plain speech grounded in real legal and technical knowledge. Ms. Seltzer's blog would be of interest to anyone following copyright and computer law issues.

Author of Annotation: J.P. Cusker