Via Ars Technica comes a month old report about fair use. Briefly: educators aren’t educated about it, and fail to call upon their rights to use copyrighted material fairly. I’ll echo these findings. I recently taught fair use (via the MLA Style Manual) to a diverse group of English undergraduates and graduate students, including quite [...]
Via BoingBoing, I present this excellent discussion of a some folks who believe they can get away with the following:
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I had a good time in NYC, attended some good sessions, had some good food and good beer. Only one major foulup: I screwed up my presentation timing. I went over by a minute or two, even though I practiced. And I talked too fast. I think I was thinking about getting on a plane, [...]
It will soom be time to warm up the phones and emails. Declan McCullagh points out that IP industry lackeys in Congress are getting ready to extend copyright in frightening and very chilling ways.
The “Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2006″ hasn’t been introduced yet, so there’s no direct source to point to. (Here’s an old [...]
Joan Miró’s family (or at least ARS) overreacts