But as litigation news becomes more mainstream thanks to the widening polarization of opinions in public discourse and the growing role of technology in life, the increasingly insane and completely off-base commentary has motivated me to roll up my sleeves. Too often, stories are overshadowed by dramatization, ignorance, politics, agenda-pushing, outright deception, or some combination thereof.
The blog is an idle hobby for me, but the subject matter is not. I'm an attorney with a degree focused on intellectual property from one of the top 10 IP law programs in the United States, involved in the byzantine maze of academics and research, as well as in transactional IP negotiation and management, with a great love for all things gadgety.
That said, I'm under no illusion that I'm anything but an ant in the flood. I'll call this a win if a few people walk away with a more informed view of the role of law in technology, or at least a greater appreciation for its nuance.
Credits
- Manas for suggesting I man up and start blogging.
- Professor Eisen's excellent Publish or Perish conference for reinvigorating both my sense of frustration with copyright issues in academia and the dangerous notion that maybe something can be done about it.
- Professor Shieber's model open access publication agreement that got me dreaming about extending a framework approach beyond one university at a time and prompted my little thought experiment I'm calling Academic Commons.
- ...and Google's Blogger, of course, for humoring me with a free and open place to pretend someone's listening.
