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Operating out of his North Yard office, Nesson too is fighting the good fight. He and a handful of Law School professors are hatching a plot to take down the maze of laws protecting the entertainment establishment. In October, Nesson and Berkman Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies Jonathan L. Zittrain traveled to Washington, D.C., to defend their cause before the Supreme Court. And today, the professors say they’ve just begun the immense project of erasing the laws that killed Napster. Their goal: to rewrite copyright law, transforming it into a form compatible with both artistic compensation...
...maze of tangled video controllers on the floor complete the decor. “The videogames set the stage,” explains Joe A. Dottino ’07. “We’re a big Halo room,” the boys collectively concede. On a typical night, they say, after an hour or so of studying, one roommate will decide to take a Halo break. But the boys explain that fifteen minutes actually means an hour, “and since no one can end on a losing streak, you keep playing until your luck...
...many as you would find at your local Barnes & Noble store. Even with the best cataloging system and the most helpful staff, tracking down every instance of a subject by browsing the stacks could take years. Like Steve Jobs with his iTunes Music Store, Bezos had to negotiate a maze of copyright issues and publishing-house egos to get his digital archive off the ground. Some writers in the cooking and travel genres fear a whole new kind of literary Napster situation. They say readers will too easily crib a recipe or city description without buying the book. They...
...Paula Modersohn-Becker’s etching Blind Woman in the Woods (Woman Playing the Piano), an elderly woman is trapped in a maze inhabited only by mushrooms and bare-branched trees. Feeling her way through the somber dark, she inadvertently makes a piano out of nature, her fingers pressing silent keys into the forest’s air. Yet her attempts seem futile, likening the work to other etchings which portray common folk with sad overtones...
...arrests were a heartening victory in Asia's war on terror. But they were followed by bitter disappointment. Shortly after Tohir and Ismail were nabbed, says National Police chief detective Erwin Mappaseng, two bigger fish got away through a maze of small alleys in Bandung. Police say Dr. Azahari bin Husin, JI's alleged master bombmaker, and Nurdin Mohamad Top, a fellow Malaysian and suspected bomb expert, had been hiding out in a boarding house in Bandung for six weeks. Apparently, the two Malaysians got wind of the earlier arrests-and disappeared. When police searched the Bandung boarding house, they...