digital rights

What’s At Stake In The Georgia State University Copyright Case

May 31, 2011

From The Chronicle of Higher Education A closely watched trial in federal court in Atlanta, Cambridge University Press et al. v. Patton et al., is pitting faculty, libraries, and publishers against one another in a case that could clarify the nature of copyright and define the meaning of fair use in the digital age … [...]

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This Week In The Fight For Digital Culture

February 26, 2010

Much in the way of interesting and infuriating has gone on this week in the areas of intellectual property, privacy, digital rights, open source and Googlization. A lot of it comes down to the rights of citizens and businesses in a networked society both parties helped create, the crucial need to protect the public domain, [...]

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What The iPad Might Have Done For Me

January 28, 2010

Needless to say, you’ve all heard about Apple’s iPad by now.  I’m certain Steve Jobs’s unveiling speech yesterday was more popular than Obama’s State of the Union address, judging simply from the crazy high TPM (tweets per minute) related to the new gadget’s drop.  (Disclosure: I contributed to said traffic with 9 tweets and around [...]

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A List Of Lists

December 28, 2009

Lizzy Caston and I were to write a mode d’emploi for air travel in this day and age of the ever-orange threat advisory.  A sample: Lady, please do your best not to wear four-inch-heeled slouch boots and every metal ring and bracelet in your collection before entering airport security.  The grimace on your face as [...]

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The Google Toilet

December 14, 2009

The quarterly technical and planning committee meetings of the Open Geospatial Consortium are held at interesting global locations without fail. Like Athens (Greece, not Georgia) in March, MIT’s Stata Center in June and Darmstadt, Germany in September 2009. I just returned from the December meeting which was held at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California. [...]

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Like Asking A Peeping Tom To Install Your Window Blinds

December 12, 2009

There are days when the decisions make themselves.  Today is one of them.  I’m going to give myself an EFF-xkcd shirt for Christmas. Google CEO Eric Schmidt holds forth on online privacy in a CNBC special on, surprise, Google. I think judgment matters.  If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe [...]

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“An Optimal Return On Our Investment In Science”

November 11, 2009

In other words, get our little and big kids learning.  What are we waiting for?  An economic depression in which the most creative thing we can come up with is spending money on bread and circuses, casinos and throwback jerseys?  Wait. TechDailyDose | Top Scientists Urge Access To Research A group of Nobel Prize-winning scientists [...]

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Schadenfreude (Of The Much-Deserved Variety)

October 14, 2009

News items that make me point and laugh like Nelson Muntz: * International Kindle Crippled at Launch: No Web Access Outside U.S. (the reaction to this was more on the order of BWAHAHAAAAaaa *slap thigh*) * Judge Refuses to Punish Lawyer for Anti-RIAA Blogging * Orly Taitz Keeps Digging * What Up. Not much.  First [...]

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