Hollywood-bought law stars in professor’s nuts-and-bolts guide to Washington sleaze
Wanna be an influence-peddler and make big bucks lobbying Congress against the public interest while the press snoozes? Or do you just want to learn more about how Washington screws...
Fewer Americans enjoy good books–but here’s how Washington could help
"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all." - Henry David Thoreau's wisdom as quoted in Book Digest--itself now in suspension.Funny....
Free hate site gets Rank #1 for word ‘Jew’ on Google–while Anne Frank’s Diary...
Jew Watch, a bigoted group "Keeping a Close Watch on Jewish Communities & Organizations Worldwide," is the first site that comes up when you type the word "Jew" into the...
Attn. Ms. Edwards! Time for a library-lover to educate the Senator on the multibillion-dollar...
Neither John Edwards nor John Kerry can summon up the courage so far to oppose the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.Stealthily passed in '98 when the press was fixated on...
DMCAists bargaining away U.S. jobs?
"If countries agree to pass DMCA-like laws as part of a treaty," U.S. "negotiators may offer better terms for exchanging other goods and services." - CNET story on the acquittal...
Sonny Bono law harms UNC Internet project–does Sen. Edwards care?
Right there in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill triangle, within maybe 30-40 miles of John Edwards' Presidential campaign headquarters, is a hotbed of public-domain activity. It's the University of North Carolina's virtual...
A million dollars in Hollywood-related political cash: Why Sen. Edwards won’t speak out on...
Washington's dubious gift to the Internet, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, has hit a North Carolina firm via a suit filed by Lexmark. The printer giant accused the Sanford-based Static...
Greedsters plot new attack on public domain
Big conglomerates would be able to claim some new rights even on public domain works--just by transmitting them. The bad guys have had the audacity to include that proposal in...
DMCAism and its Karl Marx
Methinks we've witnessed the birth of a new ideology, DMCAism, the legal framework that helps foster the most obnoxious forms of Digital Rights Management. DMCAism differs from pure capitalism in...
Sick on the Great Plains: The perils of ‘efficient’ information policies
Most cash-strapped families, especially on the Great Plains, wouldn't have paid for medical information via the Net. Just why not trust the doctor? Why gamble the money on such a...
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A sad tale of Amazon monetization: eReaderIQ and the affiliate program
Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...
