James Boyle Tells it Like it Is

James Boyle of the Duke Law School has an awesome op-ed in today’s Financial Times about the ridiculously mislabeled “Fair Copyright in Research Works Act” (introduced, I am chagrined to say, by a Senator from a state in which I used to live – but one for whom I never voted, at least…).
Given that I’m [...]

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Thanks, ACRL!

This piece by Barbara Fister, entitled “Libraries on Planet Google,” is the best rundown of the different opinions being expressed on the Google Book Settlement that I’ve seen so far.
Read it!

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Oh. So. Beautiful.

Ohsobeautiful.
Lastly, does our appetite for creative vitality require the violence and exasperation of another avant-garde, with its wearisome killing-the-father imperatives, or might we be better off ratifying the ecstasy of influence—and deepening our willingness to understand the commonality and timelessness of the methods and motifs available to artists?
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More Geeky Fun

How did I ever live without BoingBoing to provide me with giggles and warm-fuzzies to get me through the day? First it’s Cory Doctorow sending fruit baskets to Google, then crazy-ass judges making highly entertaining use of Billy Madison…and now, it’s Isolatr.
Perhaps it’s just because I go to a school where “Social Computing” is [...]

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Judges can be funny

Last fall, I knew I was becoming a tech law geek when I couldn’t stop laughing reading the Supreme Court’s opinion in Reno v. ACLU. That opinion was fairly early in the life of the WWW, and was thus stuck in the position of having to define much of the terminology and mechanics of [...]

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