Not everyone will have access to this article but can read the first graph and get an idea of the issue.

antitrust claims

"As a federal trial judge, Sotomayor ruled in 1997 that newspaper publishers were not violating copyrights by putting their freelancers' work into electronic databases."

Interesting in light of diminishing budgets and fewer resources being available for fact checking, etc.

Barbara Ringer, force behind 1976 copyright act, dies

Obama HOPE poster

No surprise here: Royal Caribbean Cruise Line has a viral infection. For once, however, it's not the Norovirus but that new-fangled byproduct of Web 2.0, the viral marketing infiltration. ... So what's the big deal? Well, it seems that the "Royal Champions" weren't always up front about their status as compensated reviewers, effectively misleading readers of CruiseCritic forums with their positive comments.

"If copying is the sincerest form of flattery, then journals are publishing a lot of amazingly flattering science. Of course to most of us, the authors of such reports would best be labeled plagiarists - and warrant censure, not praise."