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Is Copyright a Consumer's Right or a Citizen's Right? « Copyright and Technology - 0 views

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    An article exploring the debate between 'citizen' and 'consumer' rights in regard to copyright legislation.
Suzanne Cardwell

With Software, The A.P. Takes on Digital Piracy of Articles - Media Decoder Blog - NYTi... - 0 views

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    Vowing to fight unauthorized reproduction of news reports online, The Associated Press said Thursday that it will add software to each article showing who created it and what limits apply to the rights to use it. The software will also notify the A.P. about how the article is used across the Web.
Shan Luo

Finland declares broadband Internet a legal right - 0 views

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    Finland is now the first country to make broadband Internet a legal right.
yunju wang

Apple Says it Isn't Interested in eBooks, But It's Now Selling an iTunes LP Comic Book - 0 views

  • one eBook-like format has already made it into the iTunes store: a comic book. Tyrese Gibson's Mayhem! is now available, together with one song, as an iTunes LP album for $1.99 (iTunes link).
  • The book comes with a number of extras, including a 23-minute making-off video, alternate covers, concept art, wallpapers, and optional voice-over narration and sound effects
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    While Steve Jobs just told the New York Times' David Pogue that Apple isn't interested in creating a single-purpose eBook reader and that he doesn't think that eBooks are a big enough market right now, one eBook-like format has already made it into the iTunes store: a comic book. Tyrese Gibson's Mayhem! is now available, together with one song, as an iTunes LP album for $1.99 (iTunes link). Mayhem! was first released as a three-issue mini-series earlier last month
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    My question will be: what is the difference between the multimedia ebook and the mini laptop?
Huang Jing

Google Books adds Creative Commons licenses - Research Information - 0 views

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    It is a good news for Internet users, especially google users to see the google books under cc licenses. The more rights of viewers to see the books, the more criticize and ideas come out. then more crticize, the more critics criticize, the better the information is shared by authors and readers. The better the information is about how to improve the books, the more improvement of content is made.
yunju wang

Redesign is really a rethink on print | The Australian - 0 views

  • The redesign "won't just be an external, cosmetic change but something deeper", Trivino says. "Right now it is a very confused time. The internet is just a transitional stage in something that is happening. At News Corp we are trying to deliver the brands through any kind of platform. So it is the right time to rethink, what are the core values of The Australian, and how are we going to deliver the paper as a consistent brand?"
yunju wang

Digital Publishing Is Scrambling the Industry's Rules - New York Times - 0 views

  • that promise to do for books what the iPod has done for music: making them easily downloadable and completely portable
  • Mr. Benkler said he saw the project as "simply an experiment of how books might be in the future." That is one of the hottest debates in the book world right now, as publishers, editors and writers grapple with the Web's ability to connect readers and writers more quickly and intimately, new technologies that make it easier to search books electronically and the advent of digital devices that promise to do for books what the iPod has done for music: making them easily downloadable and completely portable.
  • For unknown authors struggling to capture the attention of busy readers, however, the Web offers an unprecedented way to catapult out of obscurity.
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  • For many authors, the question of how technology will shape book publishing inevitably leads to the question of how writers will be paid.
  • books themselves are a relatively new construct, inheritors of a longstanding oral storytelling culture. Mass-produced books are an even newer phenomenon, enabled by the invention of the printing press that likely put legions of calligraphers and bookbinders out of business.
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    Yochai Benkler, a Yale University law professor and author of the new book "The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom" (Yale University Press), has gone even farther: his entire book is available - free - as a download from his Web site. Between 15,000 and 20,000 people have accessed the book electronically, with some of them adding comments and links to the online version.
yunju wang

Supporters Press for Google Books Settlement - PC World - 0 views

  • Google's digitized book service will tear down barriers for people living in low-income areas, added Wade Henderson, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights.
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      well, im curious how it works since often in the case, low-income area doesn't really have access to computers.
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    A proposed settlement between Google and book publishers and authors will give huge new advantages to students, minorities and disabled people, supporters said Thursday.
Suzanne Cardwell

Amazon.com's 1984 Problems Are Just Beginning - BusinessWeek - 1 views

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    The uproar, including a lawsuit, over the removal of copies of 1984 and Animal Farm from Kindle devices comes as Amazon faces renewed e-book competition. Interesting article in terms of some of the issues discussed in the Thompson reading this week re the digital revolution and the publishing world.
Chiki Smith

TheHandbookofCheating Taught Me a Lot - 2 views

TheHandbookofCheating is a very helpful book for me. It gave me ideas how to face cheating partners. This book even taught me how to empathize with them than to lash out right away without hearing ...

relationships advice

started by Chiki Smith on 02 Aug 11 no follow-up yet
Yichen Zhu

Kirkville » Why Haven't Online Newspapers Gotten it Right? - 0 views

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    Kirk McElhearn is a freelance writer, specializing in Macs, the iPod, iTunes, digital music and more. In addition to having written or co-written a dozen books, he is a Senior Contributor to Macworld magazine, and contributes to several other web sites and magazines. He reviews classical CDs for MusicWeb and audiobooks for Audiofile, and is a translator from French to English.
Huang Jing

Digital Rights Management (DRM) Architectures - 0 views

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    This is an essay talking about DRM systems, which can give you an overview of the lock up system.
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