Day Two

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.eu domains. The final Sunrise. Coming to a registrar near you, summer 2005

While reading through Electronic boutique v. Zuccarini, I suddenly feel uneasy.
More than anywhere else, this chapter shows up that sort of Wild West attitude that sometimes I find difficult to deal with when reading about U.S. law.
Best quotes: the company maintaining the web sites for Zuccarini e-mailing him after spontaneously disabling his domains, Isenberg telling us that Zuccarini was sentenced high fees since the judge 'was angry at him'.
These could not happen, or just be told if we allow Isenberg for some embellishment (what?), this way in Europe.
The judge is not supposed to act angrily, he is supposed to apply the law. And what business had the web hosting company with an ongoing open case between Zuccarini and a third party?

Either I do not get yet the foundations and implications of the American law system or these here lawyers and professors love their writing flamboyant.

Back studying. I'll concede Isenberg I'm curious.

[Sep, 11 2005]

It is not doujinshi if it is just a copy; the artist must make a contribution to the art he copies, by transforming it either subtly or significantly. A doujinshi comic can thus take a mainstream comic and develop it differently — with a different story line. Or the comic can keep the character in character but change its look slightly. There is no formula for what makes the doujinshi sufficiently "different" But they must be different if they are to be considered true doujinshi.

Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture

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