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> #### Law, Tech and Policy
> Summary of the “Happy Birthday” decision: [Chain of Title Proves Fatal to “Happy Birthday” Copyright Claim](http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2015/10/chain-of-title-proves-fatal-to-happy-birthday-copyright-claim-guest-blog-post.htm) – Tyler Ochoa at The Technology & Marketing Law Blog; See also, the court’s decision ([pdf](http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2056&context=historical))
> Another notable copyright decision: [Appeals Court Strikes a Blow for Fair Use in Long-awaited Copyright Ruling](http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/09/eff-scores-a-win-in-long-running-dancing-baby-copyright-case/) – ArsTechnica; See also: [9th Circuit Sides With Fair Use in Dancing Baby Takedown Case](http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2015/09/9th-circuit-sides-with-fair-use-in-dancing-baby-takedown-case.htm) – The Technology & Marketing Law Blog; and the court’s opinion ([pdf](https://www.eff.org/document/9th-circuit-opinion-lenz))
> Microsoft Email Case ([wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corporation_v._United_States_of_America)): [The $98.6 Billion E-Mail – Microsoft is Fighting a Case in Federal Appeals Court that may Decide the Future of U.S. Cloud Computing](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-08/the-98-6-billion-e-mail) – Bloomberg BusinessWeek
> Administrative Subpoenas: [Here’s a Way the Government Can Easily Get Your Phone Records Without Even Asking a Judge](https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2015/10/05/heres-a-way-the-government-can-easily-get-your-phone-records-without-even-asking-a-judge-and-few-people-know-about-it/) – Washington Post
> The Fifth Amendment and Passcodes: [Fifth Amendment Protects Passcode on Smartphones, Court Holds](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/09/24/fifth-amendment-protects-passcode-on-smartphones-court-holds/) and [A Revised Approach to the Fifth Amendment and Obtaining Passcodes](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/09/25/a-revised-approach-to-the-fifth-amendment-and-obtaining-passcodes/) – Orin Kerr at the Washington Post
> OPM Hack Update: [OPM Says 5.6 million Fingerprints Stolen in Cyberattack, Five Times as Many as Previously Thought](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/09/23/opm-now-says-more-than-five-million-fingerprints-compromised-in-breaches/) – Washington Post
> On the Internet of Things: [Why The Internet of Things Is Going Nowhere
The Next Phase of the IoT is Stuck Unless We Replace Crummy Outdated Technology](https://medium.com/@patburns/why-the-internet-of-things-is-going-nowhere-112540e79ae) – Pat Burns. See also, [The Price of the Internet of Things will be a Vague Dread of a Malicious World](http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/rinesi20150925) – Marcelo Renesi, and [Internet of Things That Lie: the Future of Regulation is Demonology](http://boingboing.net/2015/10/02/internet-of-things-that-lie-t.html) – Cory Doctorow
> Moore’s Law: [Smaller, Faster, Cheaper, Over: The Future of Computer Chips](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/technology/smaller-faster-cheaper-over-the-future-of-computer-chips.html) – New York Times; Also at the New York Times: [IBM Scientists Find New Way to Shrink Transistors](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/science/ibm-scientists-find-new-way-to-shrink-transistors.html?ref=technology&_r=0)
> Apple: [On Apple’s Incredible Platform Advantage](http://stevecheney.com/on-apples-incredible-platform-advantage/) – Steve Cheney on Apple’s computer chip advantage
> #### General Interest
> [Scouring the Web to Make New Words ‘Lookupable’](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/technology/scouring-the-web-to-make-new-words-lookupable.html) – New York Times
> Angus Deaton Wins the Nobel Prize in Economics:
>> The Nobel Committee’s explainers (pdf): for [general readers](http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2015/popular-economicsciences2015.pdf) and for [technical readers](http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2015/advanced-economicsciences2015.pdf)
>> [Angus Deaton: A Skeptical Optimist Wins the Economics Nobel](http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/angus-deaton-a-skeptical-optimist-wins-the-economics-nobel) – New Yorker
>> [Five Minutes with Angus Deaton: ‘If the rich can write the rules then we have a real problem’](http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2013/12/07/five-minutes-with-angus-deaton-if-the-rich-can-write-the-rules-then-we-have-a-real-problem/) – London School of Economics
>> [A Cockeyed Optimist – Angus Deaton’s ‘Great Escape’](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/22/books/review/angus-deatons-great-escape.html?nytmobile=0&_r=0) – New York Times
> Svetlana Alexievich Wins the Nobel Prize in Literature:
>> [Everything You Need to Know About Svetlana Alexievich](http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2015/oct/08/everything-you-need-to-know-about-svetlana-alexievich-winner-of-the-nobel-prize-in-literature) – The Guardian
>> [Svetlana Alexievich’s Chorus of Fire](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/09/magazine/svetlana-alexievichs-chorus-of-fire.html?_r=0) – New York Times
>> [Voices from Chernobyl](http://www.theparisreview.org/letters-essays/5447/voices-from-chernobyl-svetlana-alexievich)(book excerpt) – Paris Review
> Meanwhile: [2010 Peace Laureate Languishes in Chinese Jail in Face of International Indifference](http://en.rsf.org/china-2010-peace-laureate-languishes-in-12-10-2015,48430.html) – Reporters without Borders
> On David Carr: [Press Rewind – What One Journalist Learned by Vicariously Sitting in on David Carr’s Master Class](http://www.themorningnews.org/article/press-rewind) – Brendan Fitzgerald at The Morning News; See also, previously: [We Need a David Carr Portable Companion; Here’s the first Draft](https://medium.com/backchannel/we-need-a-david-carr-portable-companion-89f54fda0b33) – Karen Wickre at BackChannel/Medium