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Denise Howell is a seasoned appellate and intellectual property litigator based in Los Angeles. Denise writes one of the first and most popular law-related blogs, Bag and Baggage, coined the term "blawg" and helped pioneer podcasting for lawyers. Microcontent obsessed since 2001, she is frequently quoted in the media on legal issues involving intellectual property and technology law. "Sound Policy" is Denise's show at IT Conversations, and it's also what she hopes results from the briefs she submits to court. Email Denise at dhowell@gmail.com.

Dennis Kennedy is a computer lawyer and legal technology expert based in St. Louis, Missouri. An award-winning author, a frequent speaker and a widely-read blogger, he has more than 300 publications on legal, technology and Internet topics, many of which are collected in his e-books. Dennis has been described as someone who knows almost every rock song in existence and, more importantly, how they apply to technology and law. Email Dennis at his gmail address.

Tom Mighell is Senior Counsel and Litigation Technology Support Coordinator at Cowles & Thompson in Dallas. He has published the Internet Legal Research Weekly newsletter since 2000 and blogged about the Internet and legal technology at Inter Alia since August of 2002. With Tom's singing, Ernie on guitar and Dennis' encylopedic knowledge of rock music, we may have the beginnings of a good band, if this whole blog thing doesn't work out. Email Tom at tmighell@swbell.net.

Marty Schwimmer left a partnership in the largest trademark practice in the world and founded Schwimmer Mitchell, a full-service IP micro-boutique in Westchester County, New York, where he represents owners of famous and not yet famous trademarks. He founded The Trademark Blog, the first IP law blog and the one with the most pictures. He is the first to come in and the last to leave in his firm. Email Marty at marty@schwimmerlegal.com.

Ernest Svenson practices law with a mid-sized law firm in New Orleans, specializing in business-related lawsuits. Most of his practice takes place in federal court, especially the Eastern District. He is best known for his weblog Ernie the Attorney, which he started as an experiment. Like many experiments it got out of control. Nevertheless, he continues to practice law and, occasionally, to seek enlightenment. Email Ernest at esvenson@gmail.com.
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June 7, 2005

Dennis Re Marty on iPods and Time-shifting

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Posted by Dennis M. Kennedy

Marty asked why I worry about this sort of stuff. I worry about this sort of stuff because I want to be the voice of the common people on this blog - the people who want to play by the rules and do the right thing, only to find a legal system that is so impossibly confusing that they don't know what the right thing to do is.

Of course, I also worry because the borrowing CDs from the library idea hit me and it seemed to good to be true, so I thought I'd post about it on Between Lawyers to see what people thought about it.

Marty, you might also notice that, just from the Trackbacks that post already received, this sort of stuff is thought about by people all around the world, including our Corante blogging colleague, Ernest Miller (who has an excellent post on these issues, despite his somewhat disconcerting habit of calling me "Kennedy" throughout the post - it's more than OK to call me Dennis). Perhaps the world doesn't revolve around trademarks, eh, Mr. Trademark Blog?

As an interesting aside, Miller's post shows the all-too-frequent divide between lawyers and legal academia where lawyers (for example, me) raise issues that seem to show that they are pretty much unaware of debates that have been raging in academic circles on the issues for years. On the other hand, I might be more aware of these debates than you might expect, but might have decided to take another approach in my original post. Who can be certain about copyright law interpretations or blogger's intentions these days? Not me.

As for me, I just want to play Columbo in all this: "I just have a simple question - it shouldn't take more than a minute to resolve."

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