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Category: Politics & Law

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Warner Bros. Sent UNH A ‘Cease And Desist’ Order About A Popular ‘Harry Potter’ Literature Course

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Michael Sauers

A summer course at the University of New Hampshire that uses the Harry Potter series to teach young students grammar and reading skills has prompted…

Politics & Law

Meet the Punk Rocker Who Can Liberate Your FBI File

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Michael Sauers

Ryan Shapiro has just wrapped up a talk at Boston’s Suffolk University Law School, and as usual he’s surrounded by a gaggle of admirers. The…

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Google Wins Scanning Case

Posted on November 14, 2013November 14, 2013 by Michael Sauers

“Google Books provides significant public benefits,” writes [US Circuit Judge] Chin, describing it as “an essential research tool” and noting that the scanning service has…

Politics & Law

Harvard Business School Publishing crosses the ‘evil’ academic line

Posted on October 7, 2013October 7, 2013 by Michael Sauers

Last Friday, we received an email from the Dean of the Rotman School asking us to think more carefully about HBR articles we put in…

Politics & Law

A Visual Guide To Creative Commons Licensing

Posted on October 7, 2013 by Michael Sauers
Politics & Law

The eBook Copyright Page Is Broken

Posted on October 7, 2013 by Michael Sauers

  The process of digitizing a printed book involves much more than the conversion of ink on paper to bits in a file. Functional aspects…

Politics & Law

The Battle for Power on the Internet: Bruce Schneier at TEDxCambridge 2013

Posted on October 6, 2013 by Michael Sauers

Bruce Schneier gives us a glimpse of the future of the internet, and shares some of the context we should keep in mind, and the…

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In Supreme Court Opinions, Web Links to Nowhere

Posted on September 24, 2013 by Michael Sauers

Supreme Court opinions have come down with a bad case of link rot. According to a new study, 49 percent of the hyperlinks in Supreme…

Politics & Law

Why Are American Health Care Costs So High?

Posted on September 17, 2013September 17, 2013 by Michael Sauers

In which John discusses the complicated reasons why the United States spends so much more on health care than any other country in the world,…

Politics & Law

Revealed: The NSA’s Secret Campaign to Crack, Undermine Internet Security

Posted on September 5, 2013 by Michael Sauers

The National Security Agency is winning its long-running secret war on encryption, using supercomputers, technical trickery, court orders and behind-the-scenes persuasion to undermine the major…

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