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RON COLEMAN, TWITTER GOD: "The fact is, I'm too good at social networking for my own good."

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAWYER RON COLEMAN on CNN's copyright abuse. "It is a kind of censorship, I think we can say by now, to cynically use the copyright laws to shut down embarrassing publication of obviously non-infringing works. It's particularly ugly when media outlets do it, though."

ROLL CALL: Coleman Concedes: Franken To Be Seated.

Instapundit.com reports that an atheist contributor to YouTube whose anti-Christian rants raised nary a Google'd eyebrow had his plug pulled when he started tussling with the Musselmen: "Christians who want similar consideration from Google," says Glenn Reynolds, "will presumably have to start blowing things up and beheading people." UPDATE: Here's the video. I don't endorse [...]

Instapundit notes an article in the New York Times arguing for the provision for more government gasoline to pour on the first of IP-overreach - perpetual copyright. Glenn Reynolds explains why that's an awful idea.

This is very interesting: The Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) is a nonprofit organization established by fans to serve the interests of fans by providing access to and preserving the history of fanworks and fan culture in its myriad forms. It's a copyright thing. Via Boing Boing. UPDATE: Some background from Glenn Reynolds.

I hadn't picked up on this - as part of its "ABA 100" story, the ABA Journal published brief profiles of the seven "revolutionaries" of law blogging, as they see it: Denise Howell Thomas Goldstein David Lat Eugene Volokh Judge Richard Posner Glenn Greenwald Howard Bashman All good choices. One thing I find noteworthy: Only one of them (Goldstein) works for [...]

Tim Wu (via Glenn Reynolds) says that we have to deal with the fuzzy logic of copyright enforcement in order properly to understand how copyright is, and perhaps should be, realistically enforced: "Tolerated use" is a term that refers to the contemporary spread of technically infringing, but nonetheless tolerated use of copyrighted works. Such patterns of [...]

EIGHT YEARS without email. "This drives home, as nothing else could (at least for me), just how lonely and isolated the president must be most of the time." UPDATE: Related thoughts from Ron Coleman.

... . . . . Meanwhile, here's more on how bloggers and Big Media can work together in covering an issue. UPDATE: Steven Den Beste emails: "Craigslist is stealing revenue, but most reporters and editors don't worry about revenue. Bloggers are challenging the MSM's function as gatekeepers of the news, and in particular the MSM's ability to suppress stories. That DOES directly affect reporters and editors." Indeed. And that's not lost on readers. ANOTHER UPDATE: Thoughts on Craigslist from Ron Coleman.