March 06, 2009
If you follow the comic book blogs, there's been a war of words over whether the demise of Scans Daily, which showed some comic book pages and commented on them, is a defeat for the comic book consumer or a victory for the comic book creator. (You can read about it lots of places - I'm picking the n...
Ramblin' with Roger
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Roger Owen Green
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March 03, 2009
A recent post in the New York Times entitled “Copyright Challenge for Sites That Excerpt” has caused a controversy on the Web. The article, by Brian Stetler, talks about the frustrations of copyright holders, specifically large media companies, with sites such as the Huffington Post and ...
PlagiarismToday
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Jonathan Bailey
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March 02, 2009
Today's New York Times featured a story on what is considered Fair Use on the web.Specifically, they focused on news organizations pushing back on services that aggregate their content. This is not a new argument; since the dawn of the web there has been a struggle over what constitutes fair use. Fo...
Content Matters
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Barry Graubart
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March 01, 2009
For those not on LiveJournal or who don’t follow comics news, an interesting event happened early this weekend that has a big ripple effect in the ongoing war between content creators, content distributors, and content consumers. It may not seem like a big deal, but it is when you give it a se...
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Martin
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February 21, 2009
For those of you not into geek culture, you may not be aware that the trial of the century is now going on in Sweden. The big content companies are trying to shut down a site called The Pirate Bay (that link is not likely to work at school), which is basically nothing more than a big database that d...
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Tim
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February 10, 2009
We just sent out an Action Alert to let you know about a proposed amendment to the stimulus package. This amendment, put forth by Sen. Feinstein, would allow ISPs to “deter” child pornography and copyright infringement through network management techniques. The amendment is very, very co...
Public Knowledge - Blogging, Events, and Action Alerts
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Alex Curtis
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January 27, 2009
. WHAT DOES COPYRIGHT MEAN, ANY MORE? WHEN EVERYTHING IS AVAILABLE FREE ONLINE, HOW CAN ANYONE CLAIM TO OWN ANYTHING? Creative Commons And The NY Times Decide Our Fate: Will It Be Love Or Money? Much as we all love downloading free movies and music, porn and software, and browsing the libraries and ...
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Cosa Nostradamus
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January 26, 2009
. WHAT DOES COPYRIGHT MEAN, ANY MORE? WHEN EVERYTHING IS AVAILABLE FREE ONLINE, HOW CAN ANYONE CLAIM TO OWN ANYTHING? Creative Commons And The NY Times Decide Our Fate: Will It Be Love Or Money? Much as we all love downloading free movies and music, porn and software, and browsing the libraries and ...
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Cosa Nostradamus
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January 22, 2009
photo credit: big swift Yesterday, we took a look at five “stupid” copyright questions and why they weren’t stupid at all. As was illustrated in the post, copyright law, in places, is a hopeless kludge and even the most basic questions can have very complicated answers. Though this...
PlagiarismToday
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Jonathan Bailey
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January 05, 2009
Bloggers use, and don’t use, Creative Commons Licenses for a variety of reasons. Some feel that it is a great way to give back to the community, others use CC licensing as a form of promotion, encouraging their content to be used with attribution, and others feel that it is a way to promote co...
The Blog Herald
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Jonathan Bailey
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