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Category: Politics & Law

Politics & Law

FBI Agent Tries To Register Copyright On Top Secret Interrogation Manual… Making It Available To Anyone

Posted on December 27, 2013 by Michael Sauers

Here’s a bizarre one on so many levels. The FBI has a top secret 70-page “interrogation manual.” For years, the ACLU has been trying to…

Politics & Law

How one band dealt with piracy

Posted on December 23, 2013December 29, 2013 by Michael Sauers

Update 12/29/13: Sadly, this has turned out not to be true. In the case of Iron Maiden, still a top-drawing band in the U.S. and…

Libraries

UK Digital Archive Access Fail

Posted on December 20, 2013 by Michael Sauers

So, the Brits are creating a massive digital archive. Sure, you’ll be able to access it “online” but only from certain locations. “Its not a…

Politics & Law

UK porn filters block sex education websites

Posted on December 19, 2013 by Michael Sauers

For those that keep insisting “filters are smarter than they used to be…” Among the sites TalkTalk blocked as “pornographic” was BishUK.com, an award-winning British sex…

Politics & Law

The NSA is Coming to Town

Posted on December 19, 2013 by Michael Sauers
Politics & Law

Rare Beatles tracks briefly on sale to keep them out of the public domain for another 20 years

Posted on December 18, 2013 by Michael Sauers

More proof that the current system does not benefit the public: Dozens of demo recordings, studio outtakes and some 1963 BBC performances by the Beatles…

Politics & Law

Streaming certain video from a certain angle is now patented

Posted on December 13, 2013 by Michael Sauers

File under WTF: On September 23rd, Yoga International broke the news that they (among others) had received a cease-and-desist letter from another website which also…

HIgher Ed

EFF: An Open Letter Urging Universities To Encourage Conversation About Online Privacy

Posted on December 8, 2013 by Michael Sauers

When a group of students from Iowa State University (ISU) contacted us earlier this month about forming an ISU Digital Freedom group, they were facing…

Politics & Law

Creative Commons Issues an Update to its Copyright License Suite

Posted on December 2, 2013December 2, 2013 by Michael Sauers

After more than two years of community discussions and many drafts, the nonprofit Creative Commons has released a new version of its popular copyright license…

Politics & Law

Memo on the Use of Screenshots in Game Studies Scholarship

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Michael Sauers

I asked Christopher Ogino, who was my summer research last year, to look into the question of whether screenshots of video games used in academic…

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