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Good, clear article.

"A new U.S. Senate bill would grant the president far-reaching emergency powers to seize control of or even shut down portions of the Internet. "

Covers copyright law, fair use, public domain works, and so on. Clear presentation style that gets straight to the point.

The Business Software Alliance actively checks for copyright infringement/software piracy. Topics addressed: what is software piracy, corporate piracy, internet piracy, why a license matters, know the law.

Facebook may have found a way to break the Egyptian government's blockade of its website. The government there has been blocking several social media sites that demonstrators are using to organize and document protests. Today marks the third day of protests in Egypt calling for the ouster of long-time President Hosni Mubarak. Facebook is using lessons it learned in Tunisia, where the government allegedly hacked its Web site and tried to steal the passwords and personal information of protesters in that country. Jillian York of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society monitors the Arab world online and discusses efforts to get around governments' blockades of social media sites.