Internet, technology, and property scholar James Grimmelmann joins us to discuss, among other things, the fight over the Google Books settlement, modern Libraries of Alexandria, and the nature of the legal academic mission.

This show’s links:


James Grimmelmann’s wesbite (containing links to his scholarship, courses, blog, and more)
Cornell Tech
James Somers, Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria
James Grimmelmann, Future Conduct and the Limits of Class-Action Settlements
For many resources on the Google Books case and settlement, visit the site James and his students created: thepublicindex.org
Authors Guild v. Google; Authors Guild v. HathiTrust
Sony Corp. v. Universal Studios
About A&M; Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc.
Video from the panel discussion at UC Berkeley’s April 2012 Orphan Works and Mass Digitization Conference
diybookscanner.org
Internet Archive Books
Vernor Vinge, Rainbow’s End
About shotgun sequencing, the DNA sequencing method used by Celera Genomics to sequence the human genome in 2000
James Grimmelmann, Scholars, Teachers, and Servants
New York Law School’s In re Books Conference
Special Guest: James Grimmelmann.

Episode 135: Alexandria

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