'Fair Use' Category

• Information as public domain, access through libraries

  November 24, 2004

  Information as Public Domain: Access through Libraries This is a declaration from an international conference in Russia held last month. The link only has the declaration in English with the program listed in Russian. Be that as it may, it’s a good reminder that the entire world is interested in information access and that the [...]

  

  posted in Fair Use by James R. Jacobs

• Inducing Infringment of Copyrights Act

  July 9, 2004

  There’s an interesting discussion of the “Inducing Infringment of Copyrights Act” over at The Importance of…, a blog by Ernest Miller. Senate Bill 2560 was introduced by Senator Orin Hatch on June 22, 2004. Strangely enough, the cosponsors are Leahy, Frist, Daschle, Graham of South Carolina, and Boxer. Strange bedfellows to say the least. Read [...]

  

  posted in Copyright, Fair Use by James R. Jacobs

• Reticulum Rex

  December 31, 2003

  A new Flash movie describing the Creative Commons has just come out. View it, download it, share it, mix it, create new culture! It’s … Reticulum Rex.

  

  posted in Fair Use, Open Access by James R. Jacobs

• An editorial on some of the challenges facing Apple now that iTunes has come to Windows

  October 21, 2003

  Ars Technica: Apple’s iTunes Music Store: dissed by Microsoft, breakin’ some machines, and facing challenges by Ken “Caesar” Fisher. (10/2003). This article analyzes some of the technical issues as well as the and DRM social issues.

  

  posted in Fair Use by jajacobs

• Dueling Monopolies

  October 21, 2003

  The Register Oct. 20, 2003. “Microsoft monopoly says Apple monopoly is too restrictive” By Andrew Orlowski. Microsoft warns consumers that the Windows-based version of iTunes is a “closed system.” There’s plenty of irony in seeing one monopoly accuse another monopoly of restricting users’ choices. But monopolies they both are.

  

  posted in Fair Use by jajacobs

• The great MP3 caper

  October 17, 2003

  The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released a new Flash movie aimed at explaining what’s good and what’s at risk with file-sharing. Check out the“Great MP3 Caper”. [shout out toboing boing]

  

  posted in Fair Use by James R. Jacobs

• Ethics of database passwords

  September 8, 2003

  From the Ethicist column of yesterday’s NYT Magazine. Here’s an interesting dilemma: to give or not to give a sibling who’s a non-offiliated student the password to a university library’s article databases? While the succinct answer–”if you’re unauthorized, then you shouldn’t accept the offer”–is pretty cut-and-dried, there are larger issues of freedom of information, fair [...]

  

  posted in Fair Use by James R. Jacobs

• Fair use and DRM

  August 19, 2003

  “Fair use under fire”, from the latest Library Journal, talks about the consequences of digital rights management on fair use. This is a critical issue that doesn’t get talked about at all in the midst of the RIAA PR juggernaut against “pirates”. (props to the shifted librarian!)

  

  posted in Fair Use by James R. Jacobs