In Win for Libraries Over Publishers, Supreme Court Upholds Reselling of Foreign Books By Jennifer Howard If you’re the legal owner of a copy of a book or other work copyrighted under U.S. law, the Supreme Court says you have the right to resell or give it away, even if it was made overseas. I[...]
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February 10th, 2012 - 8:53 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS
Kopimism, Sweden’s Pirate Religion, Begins to Plunder America ‘Kopimism’ gives internet piracy a place to worship By Jason Koebler. US News and World Report A Swedish religion whose dogma centers on the belief that people should be free to copy and distribute all information—rega[...]
August 26th, 2011 - 11:04 am § in Science
BREAKING NEWS: A New Journal!
The HHMI/Wellcome/MPI super journal and the triumph of open access By Michael Eisen from Its Not Junk On Monday the world’s three most prominent private funders of scientific research – the US’s Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the UK’s Wellcome Trust and Germany’s Max Planck Society – a[...]
Printing has been replaced by posting. Owning and profiting from “News”
In a country where people pause what they’re doing and turn up the news on the hour without thinking about it, the need for quality online journalism is obvious. ….. Jerusalem Post. About 4000 years ago the ancient Hebrews, my ancestors invented the first phonetic alphabet. The result wa[...]