It seems that Charter, an Internet service provider (ISP) based in St. Louis, Missouri, is having a bit of trouble keeping its customers happy. Last year, Charter came in dead last in PC World’s rankings of "The Best and Worst ISPs," which was based on a survey of over 6,400 readers. …
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Charter, NebuAD and the Targeted Advertising Threat
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Public Knowledge In The Know -- May, 15 2008
http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/1573What’s New: Action Alert: Save Orphan Works! Two Bills Lead Net Neutrality Push The New Clearwire: How Open Will America’s First WiMAX Network Be? Blizzard Entertainment: The Company Who Cried Copyright Infringement Nominations Now Open For the 2008 IP3 Awards read more …
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Senate Marks Up Orphan Works
http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/1572This morning the Senate Judiciary Committee marked up their version of the orphan works bill, S. 2319, The Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act of 2008. I live twittered the markup, but in the off chance you weren’t following my tweets, the markup was fairly uneventful. The line was quite long for a markup. …
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Proposed Orphan Work Act imperils rights of artists
http://www.artgroupsdfw.com/nucleus/index.php?itemid=918http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml Resources: H.R.5889 Orphan Works Act of 2008 (Introduced in House): http://www.thomas.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.R.5889: Public Knowledge: Orphan Works http://www.publicknowledge.org/issues/ow [this site is pro-legislation on the issue but provides a good explanation of the other side of the issue]
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Online Education News, Online University News, Online
http://www.ya-edu.comThe Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved a bill today to make it easier for scholars, archivists, and others to use orphan works. These are books, films, and other creations whose owners cannot be identified. Those who redistribute the material risk incurring penalties for copyright infringement.
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Software Control Through Copyright
http://usefularts.us/2008/05/16/software-control-through-cop...Seems to me that such a legal precedent would be quite detrimental to the software industry – particularly its future in light of mash-ups and other yet-to-be-discovered techniques of innovation. The EFF weighs in on this, as does Public Knowledge. In this case, it’s unclear to me why Blizzard is trying to use legal control over their application, when they should be exerting application control. Why not change the software to prevent this cheat – freeze it out like a bricked iPhone?
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Bloggers Unite for Human Rights: Network Neutrality
http://www.profy.com/2008/05/15/networkneutrality/American Library Association Common Cause National Association of State PIRGs (U.S. PIRG) Flint River Hospital Afro-Netizen Loyola University Chicago, Department of Communications Quicksilver Communications Alex Curtis of Public Knowledge made a short video that gives a clear idea of the ways losing Network Neutrality could affect you. If the embedded player below won't work for you, you can view the video here, at YouTube. Save The Internet is not the only web site speaking out
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Book Patrol: A Haven for Book Culture
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/bookpatrolLet's keep the pork and politics out of it and do what is necessary to guarantee the public free access to this treasure trove of material culture while supporting, if they are ever found, the creators. pdf of the The Orphan Works Act of 2008 Post at O'Reilly's Tools of Change blog with some good links
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Expand the Public Domain : Release the 'Orphans'
http://www.bookpatrol.net/2008/05/expand-public-domain-relea...of our material culture is locked away for fear of litigation. Most institutions have conducted exhaustive searches to try track down the owners, but for pretty much all of these orphans the owners cannot be found. Both the Senate and the House have introduced legislation that address this travesty. Both are considerate of each party and provide for compensation if the owner ever turns up. Julie Mellby at Princeton University's Graphic Arts blog posts a copy of the letter
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Is Comcast (still, really) blocking BitTorrent?
http://bennett.com/blog/index.php/archives/2008/05/15/is-com...Comcast blocking of BitTorrent
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Senate Committee Approves Orphan-Works Bill
http://www.ya-edu.com/senate-committee-approves-orphan-works...The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved a bill today to make it easier for scholars, archivists, and others to use orphan works. These are books, films, and other creations whose owners cannot be identified. Those who redistribute the material risk incurring penalties for copyright infringement.
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Orphaned Works Act approved
http://rouvelle.com/?p=75more info >> http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2008/05/support-the-orp.html http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/1478 Definition of an Orphan Work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_works http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/1553 http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/05/07/asmp-supports-orphan-works-bill/ http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/1553
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Congress Considers Reform On Orphaned Works
http://www.privacydigest.com/2008/05/14/congress+considers+r...is that one could declare their intent to use the work with the Copyright Office and if the copyright holder didn't care to respond, they would only be able to get 'reasonable compensation' instead of excessive statutory penalties. Public Knowledge has more details on the bills." (Read Original Article - Via Slashdot: Your Rights Online.) read more »
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