Tag: fair use
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We are increasingly vesting our First Amendment rights in the hands of private companies. This, more than anything, is what scares me about Facebook’s new deal with news organizations where it will host stories from The New York Times and others within Facebook itself, rather than linking to NYTimes.com from the Facebook News Feed. We’re…
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The Silver Lining
The Silver Lining Vivendi Universal moves to shut down fan-created gaming site, The Silver Lining, after eight years. The Silver Lining was a King’s Quest mod, but Vivendi would not allow them to have a non-commercial fan license. This happened after Sierra IP changed hands and is now controlled by Activision
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Don’t miss this: OVC presents Wireside Chat with Lawrence Lessig
Image via Wikipedia The talk The lecture by Lawrence Lessig will last 45 minutes, and will be followed by a 30 minute interactive Q & A session. The event will be moderated by Elizabeth Stark of the Open Video Alliance. Questions can be submitted using the hashtag #wireside. This is a talk about copyright in…
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RIAA Threatens Berkman Center for Internet and Society’s Founder
“The idea that a court is being asked by them to order educational material to be removed from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society website seems a questionable intrusion both on my liberty and the public interest,” said Nesson in a telephone interview. “I certainly don’t agree that I am violating any law.” via…
Barbara K Iverson 