Lisa L. Spangenberg

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  • About
    • Contact
    • Policies
  • Blog: IT
  • Scholarship
  • Teaching
    • The Writing Process
    • On Passive Voice
    • Rhetorical Figures
    • Seventeenth Century Prose Style
    • Teaching with Technology
    • Writing at Work
  • Technology
    • IT: Blog
    • About IT:
  • Writing
    • Purple Prose
    • Murder Your Darlings or Kill Your Darlings
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    • Writing in the Digital Realm
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    MacWorld on DVD Ripping: Is It Legal?

    Lisa Spangenberg / April 20, 2010

    One of the smartest, most thoughtful discussions I’ve seen about ripping backups of DVDs you own, from MacWorld Staff: Is DVD ripping illegal? The MPAA and most media companies argue that you can’t…

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    Steve Jobs on Copyright

    Lisa Spangenberg / March 1, 2009

    “If copyright dies, if patents die, if the protection of intellectual property is eroded, then people will stop investing. That hurts everyone. People need to have the incentive that if they invest and…

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    DMCA and Fandom

    Lisa Spangenberg / September 2, 2002

    I attended the “The DMCA and Fandom” panel on Sunday at ConJosé. The official description reads: How has the Digital Millennium Copyright Act affected Fandom? Fan writers, editors and lawyers discuss recent actions…

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  • Commentary,  Security

    Information Wave Technologies Bans the RIAA

    Lisa Spangenberg / August 19, 2002

    From a press release from host Information Wave Technologies, via Metafilter: Due to the nature of this matter and RIAA’s previous history, we feel the RIAA will abuse software vulerabilities in a client’s…

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  • Commentary,  Culture and Society

    About Mr. Coble

    Lisa Spangenberg / August 16, 2002

    I knew a bit about Congressman Howard Berman, since he’s the representative for my home state, California, but I’d never heard of Congressman Howard Coble (R-North Carolina) until I learned he was Berman’s…

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  • Commentary

    Who Is Howard Berman?

    Lisa Spangenberg / August 15, 2002

    Howard Berman (D-California) is co-sponsor with Howard Coble (R-North Carolina) of the Peer to Peer Piracy Bill). I’d like to make sure you know that Congressman Berman’s top five financial contributors (via PACs)…

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  • Commentary

    Peer to Peer Piracy Bill—A License to Ransack?

    Lisa Spangenberg / August 15, 2002

    There’s an important post about Coble’s role in the Peer to Peer Piracy bill at Ed Cone’s blog. He quotes an email from Fred von Lohmann, Senior Intellectual Property Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation:…

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    More from Others on the Berman-Coble p2p Bill

    Lisa Spangenberg / August 12, 2002

    See what happens when I waste my time working on my dissertation ? I miss really thoughtful and intelligent posts, like this DaveNet piece from Dave Winer. Read the whole thing, but I…

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    On the Berman p2p

    Lisa Spangenberg / August 12, 2002

    I intended to write something polemic and scathing about the Howard Berman (D- California) and Howard Coble‘s (North Carolina) so called “Peer to Peer Piracy Prevention” bill to allow rights owners to create…

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    HP uses the Digital Millenium Copyright Act to Hide Security Problems

    Lisa Spangenberg / July 31, 2002

    HP uses the Digital Millenium Copyright Act to Hide Security Problems I didn’t think it could get even more idiotic than the Disney/RIAA shenannigans, but yes, Hewlett-Packhard has managed to wrench copyright to…

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