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• Murdoch to Washington: Stay out of the way, but please help

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 793
  Filed under: People , Media , News Corp. Rupert Murdoch is sending mixed signals. Under no circumstances does he think the federal government ought to step in and help float newspaper publishers through their current difficulties. But the key to the future solvency of news organizations lies, he suggests, in ...
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• Breathlessly waiting for Murdoch to be sued . . . or wither on the web?

  
  Ruling Imagination: Law and Creativity — Authority: 415
  The Kwika Entertainment Blog (reprinting a piece from the Huffington Post ) breathlessly announces that “if Microsoft and [Rupert Murdochs] News Corp. go forward with a deal whereby News Corp. demands that Google stop indexing its websites, don’t be surprised if it leads to one of the most important copyright ...
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• Why the GPL/Derivative Work debate doesn’t matter for WordPress themes

  
  perpetual beta | release — Authority: 107
  Note: this is not legal advice. This is my opinion, nothing more. If you want legal advice, hire a lawyer. How to piss people off with a legal argument There are no atheists in a foxhole, it’s been said, and there are apparently no agnostics when it comes to the potential application of the GNU General Public ...
  8 hours ago

• Fair Use: Thoughts on the hacked climate change e-mail

  
  Against Monopoly — Authority: 133
  One of the problems is that science has become politicized. Industries hire hacks (including scientists) to attack any science that does not meet their needs. Think of the Chamber of Commerces recent call for economists to write a paper that will attack health care. Under constant attack, scientists may feel the ...
  3 days ago

• Wendy Seltzer on the other problem with DRM

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 614
  Wendy Seltzer has posted an article that will run in Berkeley technology Law Journal (Jan. 25 2010) . In it she argues that the problems with DRM go beyond its failure to accommodate Fair Use: The fair use debate is important, but it is not the only problem with DRM. Equally important, but thus far largely ...
  3 days ago

• Diversion, yes, but no

  
  LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION — Authority: 138
  Some people have all the luck in the Eastern District of New York.  Whereas me — I think I’ve got it coming to me right down the middle, and then it seems to get, I don’t know — diverted from me!So some lawyers get assigned judges in the Eastern District of New York whose ideas [...]
  5 days ago

• K12 Online Conference: Steal This Preso! Trailer

  
  Creating Lifelong Learners — Authority: 107
  If you’ve never heard of the K12 Online Conference , all you need to know is that it’s a free online conference with presentations from some of the greatest minds in educational technology (they’ve also asked me to present).  All presentations are accessible from the web site.  You can even see presentations ...
  1 week ago

• Dear Washington

  
  Travors.com — Authority: 570
  I’m delighted to say I’ll be visiting Washington DC to speak about Fair Use and Garfield Minus Garfield at World’s Fair Use Day on the 12 January 2010. The event will be held at the Newseum and is a free, all-day celebration of fair use: the legal right that allows innovators and creators to make ...
  1 week ago

• Despite UK Governments Machinations the Web is Going to Become a Brighter, Better Place!

  
  Anarchoblogs — Authority: 158
  According to the Financial Times Rupert Murdoch’s Newscorp and Microsoft have been in talks to create an exclusive deal ensuring that only Microsoft’s own “Bing” search engine carries Newscorp content. Microsoft obviously intend this as an attack on Google who are their main competitor in the developing ...
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• What’s good for AP is criminal for Google?

  
  (iverson's) currentbuzz — Authority: 124
  Danny Sullivan in Daggle reports that the AP scanned Palin’s book and TPM has the memo about it. AP did it so they could scan and in effect cherry-pick quotes (see Frank Rich on how few are reading the Palin tome) and thus it would appear that what AP attacks as criminal when Google does [...]
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• Google goes for an OS and netbooks by Xmas 2010

  
  (iverson's) currentbuzz — Authority: 124
  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google, a company that wants us to live on the Web, pushed that agenda further Thursday as it unveiled details of its Chrome computer operating system and plans to have the OS in a new kind of ultra-cheap portable computer in time for Christmas 2010.via Google Aims To Remake Computers – ...
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• Criteria for Evaluating Law School

  
  FeelingElephants's Weblog — Authority: 112
  Law school. Divorce and suicide factory. Gateway to where I want to be in 5 minutes or 5 years. A chance to do good. An open door. A long, painful slog. A place to close your mind to the world and study. $300,000 in loans I will spend 10 years paying off. A chance to shine, to be among crazily-geeky policy wonks ...
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• Future You Will Be Smarter than Present You

  
  Legal Geekery — Authority: 118
  Introduction - Wherein Laura wants to know if a smartphone will improve her life. Yes, says Josh, at least until the apocalypse. - There’s some disagreement as to the origin of the Island of Misfit Toys in the ad at issue in this silly lawsuit against Verizon . Unfortunately, Josh wins this one . - Be warned this ...
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• New York Times Uses Lawyers to Suppress Criticism of Press Release Journalism

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 514
  A month ago, I wrote a post at Irregular Times showing how a New York Times reporter wrote a “news article” on the Apple Magic Mouse that was entirely derived, right down to the images, from an Apple Corporate Press Release. In an e-mail sent to a friend on the subject (despite multiple attempts to make contact ...
  1 week ago

• Murdoch & fair use

  
  NetFamilyNews — Authority: 511
  For students, teachers, and parents interested in the ongoing conversation about the "fair use" of other peoples content in the classroom, Web profiles, presentations, blogs, etc., this article in BNET.com is great: Its the view from two intellectual property lawyers of News Corps Rupert Murdochs threat to block ...
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• Notes from “The Social Media Portfolio: Using Technology to Promote Meta-cognitive Skill Development” at NWP’s Digital Is

  
  Digital Writing, Digital Teaching — Authority: 112
  The Social Media Portfolio: Using Technology to Promote Meta-cognitive Skill Development At NWP’s Digital Is Rafi Santo , Amana Kaskazi, and Shonell Richmond Global Kids 20 Years in existence and focusing on significant global issues Issues: Local to global and global to local understanding Leadership: ...
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• Notes from Danielle Nicole DeVoss’s Opening Keynote at NWP’s “Digital Is…”

  
  Digital Writing, Digital Teaching — Authority: 112
  Danielle Nicole DeVoss asks us to think about what digital was then and is now… Digital is… Networked — we compose in networked spaces Collaborative — people are able to connect and create through these networks ( LolCats ) Multimodal — typography, kinetic type, digital stories Re-Mediated — taking ...
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• Apple Beats Mac Cloner Psystar

  
  The VAR Guy — Authority: 505
  It might be time to say goodbye to the Mac clone market (again). The reason: Apple has won a judgment against Psystar –  the grey-box Mac cloners. Here’s the details… As you may recall from my October 8 blog entry: Psystar Corp , a custom computer builder, has been offering “Open Computers” with ...
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• Who gets whacked? Politico and Copyright

  
  madisonian.net — Authority: 515
  This morning’s Politico.com features a story entitled “Who Gets Whacked?” – a guide to Sarah Palin’s recent “Going Rogue” memoir summarizing how Palin treats various Washington players. The story features fairly extensive quotation from the book, which the authors of the story got in advance of ...
  2 weeks ago

• The future of embedded video will (or will not) be televised

  
  The Hollywood Reporter | Esq. | Entertainment and Media Law — Authority: 639
  By Eriq Gardner Rupert Murdochs News Corporation has decided to crack down on Fox News clips appearing on the Internet, recently sending out more than 150 takedown notices to YouTube. The efforts caused the temporary shutdown of News1News YouTube channel,...
  2 weeks ago

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