In a comical display of meta-censorship several copyright holders including 20th Century Fox and NBC Universal have sent Google takedown requests asking the search engine…
Tag: copyright
See if you can guess who before reading any further. (No, not Metallica.) Well, that didn’t take long. Two months after its launch, the social…
Arizona Phoenix College math instructor James Sousa has been teaching math for 15 years at both the community college and K-12 levels. Over the years,…
As usual, I’ll let Cory speak for himself. The internet is important, but the copyright wars treat it as a triviality: like cable TV 2.0;…
Should an author’s letters be published despite their wishes? For years, everyday readers of Willa Cather’s award-winning novels knew more about the characters in her…
With the possibility of comprehensive copyright reform in the US in the air, we warned that lobbyists from all sides were about to be very, very busy on Capitol…
I recently put the payment for a speaking gig on the line over licensing terms. In that case the terms were changed, the event happened,…
This is all over the social web this morning but in case you’ve missed it: Today’s decision vindicates the “first sale” doctrine, which allows the…
From Playbill.com: A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Central California filed on March 11 a ruling…
Cory Doctorow’s latest article in The Guardian addresses the idea of putting DRM in HTML5. Here however is what I find to be the most…