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Category: Politics & Law

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Publisher Threatens to Sue (Librarian) Blogger for $1-Billion

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Michael Sauers

Jeffrey Beall is a metadata librarian at the University of Colorado at Denver, but he’s known online for his popular blog Scholarly Open Access, where…

Politics & Law

3D printed guns are going to create big legal precedents

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Michael Sauers

Cory Doctorow takes on the latest 3D printed gun controversy: The most interesting part of the whole affair is what it says about all forms…

Politics & Law

Don’t ever speak to the FBI without a tape recorder running and a lawyer present

Posted on May 11, 2013 by Michael Sauers

The message from Robel’s prosecution and Silverglate’s advice is clear: do not talk to the FBI without your lawyer present. If Harvey’s decades long experience is…

Politics & Law

Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy

Posted on May 11, 2013 by Michael Sauers

It was more sophisticated than we had imagined: new documents show that the violent crackdown on Occupy last fall – so mystifying at the time –…

Politics & Law

Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever

Posted on May 10, 2013May 10, 2013 by Michael Sauers

Dating back perhaps as far as the early Nineties, traders and others inside these banks were sometimes calling up the company geeks responsible for submitting…

Politics & Law

Pirate Bay Takes Over Distribution of Censored 3D Printable Gun

Posted on May 10, 2013 by Michael Sauers

A few days after the blueprints for the world’s first printable gun were published online, Defense Distributed has been asked by the State Department to…

Politics & Law

Members of Congress finally introduce serious DMCA reform

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Michael Sauers

New legislation sponsored by Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Thomas Massie (R-KY), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), and Jared Polis (D-CO) takes a broader approach to the issue. In…

Politics & Law

Welcome to the century of the copyright troll: Prenda Law was just the beginning

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Michael Sauers

As the saga of the porno copyright trolls Prenda Law moves into its end-game (likely to involve disbarments and jail time for the fraudsters behind…

Politics & Law

FBI Documents Suggest That Feds Read Your Emails Without a Warrant

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Michael Sauers

New documents from the FBI and U.S. Attorneys’ offices paint a troubling picture of the government’s email surveillance practices. Not only does the FBI claim it…

Books

Why Isn’t Gatsby in the Public Domain?

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Michael Sauers

When The Great Gatsby rolls out to theaters across the country this weekend, it will bring to the screen a story familiar to millions from…

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