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arnie Grossblatt

Internet Archive Objects to the Google Books Settlement - 0 views

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    The Internet Archive asks the ruling judge to intervene in the settlement between Google and the AAP, claiming that Google will gain a monopoly on the use of orphan works.
Lindsey Hayes

Wikipedia in hot water with National Portrait Gallery - 0 views

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    More woes for Wikipedia
arnie Grossblatt

China tries to control free speech through Internet - 0 views

  • is happy state of affairs could be close to an end.
  • his will make the Web more accessible to non-English-speakers but also will lead to tricky issues, such as whether dissidents in China or Iran will be permitted to have their own dot-addresses. How would Beijing respond to a Chinese-language domain that translates into .democracy or .limitedgovernment, perhaps hosted by computers in Taipei or Vancouver?
  • he U.N. model of Internet governance is highly unsatisfactory from a human-rights and free-expression point of view for obvious reasons,” she told me. “The Chinese and the Iranians and various other authoritarian countries will insist on standards and rules that make dissent more difficult, destroy the possibility of anonymity, and facilitate surveillance.”
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  • I think the question here is not about which governments have the moral right to lead Internet governance over others,” Ms. MacKinnon argues, “but about whether it’s appropriate that Internet governance should be the sole province of governments, many of which do not arguably represent the interests of Internet users in their countries because they were not democratically elected
arnie Grossblatt

A.P. Cracks Down on Unpaid Use of Articles on Web - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    AP gets ready to play rough with news aggregators and search engines - and with the notion of fair use.
Kori Kamradt

Uproar Over Amazon Retracting Select Kindle Editions - 0 views

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    A storm is brewing in the Kindle Community forum about Amazon's decision to remove e-book editions of George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm from customers' devices.
Kori Kamradt

Sourcebooks Experimenting with DRM-Free e-Books - 7/9/2009 2:34:00 PM - Publishers Weekly - 0 views

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    Sourcebooks is collaborating with Smashwords to produce 14 mass market titles as DRM-free e-books.
Kori Kamradt

Free-For-All: Anderson, "Free" Book, Sparks a Backlash Online and Among Battered Media ... - 0 views

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    Under normal circumstances, the fact that Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson's latest book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price, logged over 17,000 free views in a day on upstart "social publisher" Scribd would be the story. The real story, however, lurks in the comments left on the Scribd web site.
jennifer kuhn

Former MMCC prof fired over Facebook status; he says real reason was union organizing - 0 views

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    This guy was fired over his Facebook status posting. Is this ethical, and worse, could it happen to YOU?
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    Just watched a story on the Facebook Effect on CNBC that discussed another educator being fired over FB statuses. Very interesting...
Allison Begezda

How Noah Webster Invented American Publishing and Made a Fortune by Joshua Kendall - Th... - 0 views

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    The newly minted Yale grad was feeling discouraged. The 24-year-old teacher had quit his day job to write a book, and only his two closest college buddies thought anything of his work. As he noted in his diary, he encountered "serious obstacles."
anonymous

Jeremy Mauger: Google Book Search - The Decision Not to Digitize - 0 views

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    Michael Zimmer's blog discusses the Google Book Search. This particular post is authored by SOIS PhD student Jeremy Mauger. (For more information, make sure to check out the related links at the end of the article.)
Lindsey Schauer

More Black Eyes for Journalism: A Plagiarism Case Apiece in U.S., U.K. - 0 views

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    Wed Jul 13, 2011 8:36am EDT The journalistic improprieties keep piling up on both sides of the Atlantic as one journalist was fired and another suspended for plagiarism this week. The Kansas City Star dismissed columnist Steve Penn for copying material from press releases and claiming the opinions of other writers were his own.
Allison Begezda

E-books alter publishing industry - 0 views

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    Changes in the publishing industry not only affect those in the industry, but all readers, and the quality of the books they read.
William Turner

What You Don't Know About Copyright, but Should - 0 views

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    from The Chronicle of Higher Education
arnie Grossblatt

The Return Of The Broadcast Treaty | Techdirt - 1 views

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    See how public domain material moves into the non-public domain.
arnie Grossblatt

Parodist of Goldman Finds a New Publisher - 0 views

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    No penalty for misrepresenting a work of fiction as truth. The lesson of "A Million Little Pieces" is publishers will not worry about misrepresentation when it generates publicity for book.  We have a new category of work "semi-fiction" - formerly know as BS.
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