legal information geek, antique tool guy, old opera hand

Joined December 2008
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Last night's livestream, now available via YouTube. This one's a little more out there than usual..... youtu.be/KQInWlWcx90
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Doing a live show tomorrow with my pal Charles Shriner (charlesshriner.com/say-hello…). Going live on Twitch at 3 PM EST, Sunday, Dec 6 , at twitch.tv/tbruce0.
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Goddamn, @carlmalamud , you won!
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Thomas R Bruce retweeted
27 Apr 2020
An extraordinary, clear, and sweeping pronouncement by the Chief Justice, writing for the majority in Georgia v. Public.Resource.org. Under the government edicts doctrine, judges and legislators acting in their official capacity can’t be “authors” under the Copyright Act.
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Thomas R Bruce retweeted
27 Apr 2020
This is an important issue for @Fastcase and other publishers. I had argued for this reasoning in @LIICornell’s VoxPopuLII here in 2011 blog.law.cornell.edu/voxpop/… and in a #ReinventLaw SV event in 2013: vimeo.com/63123518 and in Medium last year: medium.com/@ejwalters/who-ow…

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Any minute now, I expect that #Cornell will announce a campaign to buy PPE for its planned-giving officers.
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Any minute now, I expect that #Cornell will announce a campaign to buy PPE for its planned-giving officers.
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Any of y'all capable of turning this into a flowchart? It would be a public service ... vox.com/2020/3/21/21188152/t…
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Well, I guess this is the end of that whole no-laptops-in-the-law-school-classroom thing.
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Smartest, sanest thing I've read on coronavirus preparation. Everyone -- *everyone* -- please RT widely. blogs.scientificamerican.com…

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Now tweeting occasional music-related stuff as @tombrucemusic . Website: tombrucemusic.space
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It’s like SJ Perlman and William Faulkner were having a contest to see who could come up with the silliest name for a Presidential Press Secretary, and they both won.
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You tell people that you can’t be bothered to come to work any more, and everyone gets all excited. Thanks, all of you, for a humbling, ridiculous, and mostly undeserved outpouring.
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Aw, knock it off, you guys.
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My last day as Director of the LII will be June 30. Please read the full text of the announcement here: blog.law.cornell.edu/blog/20…

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Because if I'm going to be patronized while working for tips, I want to be patronized by the *best*: news.cornell.edu/stories/201…

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