"July 31, 2011
By David Glenn
Cambridge, Mass.
This past April in Switzerland, Lawrence Lessig gave an impassioned lecture denouncing publishers' paywalls, which charge fees to read scholarly research, thus blocking most people from access.
It was a familiar theme for Mr. Lessig, a professor at Harvard Law School who is one of the world's most outspoken critics of intellectual-property laws. But in this speech he gave special attention to JSTOR, a not-for-profit journal archive. He cited a tweet from a scholar who called JSTOR "morally offensive" for charging $20 for a six-page 1932 article from the California Historical Society Quarterly.
The JSTOR archive is not usually cast as a leading villain by open-access advocates. But Mr. Lessig surely knew in April something that his Swiss audience did not: Aaron Swartz-a friend and former Harvard colleague of Mr. Lessig's-was under investigation for misappropriating more than 4.8 million scholarly papers and other files from JSTOR.
On July 19, exactly three months after Mr. Lessig's speech, federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment charging that Mr. Swartz had abused computer networks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and disrupted JSTOR's servers. If convicted on all counts, Mr. Swartz faces up to 35 years in prison."
Alexis Boisseau - 21 septembre 2011
"Comment sait-on qu'une œuvre fait désormais partie du domaine public et que, tout en restant une création de son auteur original (ce qu'on appelle le «droit moral», qui est éternel), on peut la rééditer ou réinterpréter sans payer de «droits patrimoniaux»?
La loi est un bon premier guide, mais elle est tellement truffée d'exceptions qu'on ne peut se soustraire à des recherches parfois très longues. Dans la situation la plus courante, quand l'œuvre est «individuelle», les droits subsistent pour les ayants droits 70 ans après le 1er janvier qui suit la mort de l'auteur. Cette règle est née d'une directive européenne qui n'a été transposée en droit français qu'en 1997 et remplace, pour les œuvres qui n'étaient pas dans le domaine public au 31 décembre 1995 la durée de 50 ans de protection qui était en vigueur avant."
"Collection:
C. Szwedzicki: The North American Indian Works
Work Record ID:
219
Reproduction Record ID:
219
Work Class:
depictions
Work Type:
print
Title:
Retreat of Reno's Commnand
Title Type:
constructed title
Title:
Sioux Indian painting
Title Type:
collective title
Measurements:
11.40 x 19.05 in (28.96 x 48.39 cm) on sheet 15.30 x 19.50 in (38.86 x 49.53 cm)
Measurement Type:
dimensions
Material:
paper (fiber product)
Material Type:
support
Inscription:
Image Top Center: Custer Battle Field / June 25 and 26 1876 / Crazy Horse
Inscription:
Above Image Right: 8 [Plate Number]
Creator:
Bad Heart Bull, Amos, 1869-1913
Creator Dates:
1869-1913
Creator Nationality:
Oglala Lakota
Creator Name Variant:
Bad Heart Buffalo (Tatanka Cante Sice)
Creator Type:
personal name
Creator Role:
painter
Date:
1938
Location:
Little Bighorn Battlefield (Mont.)
Repository:
Archives and Rare Books Library, University Libraries, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
Repository Type:
current repository
ID Number:
8
ID Number Type:
plate number
ID Number:
ARB RB Oversize E98.A7 S568 1938 Vol. 2
ID Number Type:
call number
Style Period:
Plains Indian
Style Period:
Indian art--North America
Culture:
Native American
Culture:
Oglala Lakota
Subject:
Belts (Clothing)
Subject:
Breechcloths
Subject:
Face painting
Subject:
Feathers
Subject:
Fringe
Subject:
Leggings
Subject:
Moccasins
Subject:
Beadwork
Subject:
Body painting
Subject:
Shirts, Men's
Subject:
Breastplates
Subject:
Hair pipes
Subject:
Bridles
Subject:
Horseback riding
Subject:
Horses
Subject:
Chokers
Subject:
Arrows
Subject:
Metalwork
Subject:
Picture-writing
Subject:
Saddle blankets
Subject:
Indian warfare
Subject:
Rifles
Subject:
Military uniforms
Subject:
Sabers
Subject:
Bow lances
Subject:
Crazy Horse (Tashunca-Uitco), ca. 1842-1877
Subject:
Fixed-stone-head clubs
Subject:
Hats
Subject:
Saddles
Subject:
Saddlebags
Subject:
War shirts
Subject:
Reno, Marcus A. (Marcus Albert), 1835-1889
Subject:
Indians of North America--Wars
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Kevin Wade, that plaintiff's father, said he thinks schools should focus on teaching students cheating is wrong."You can't take a person's work and run it through a computer and make an honest person out of them,"
it seems like Turnitin is a commercial use. They turn around and sell this service, and it's expensive. And the service only works because they get these papers
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