Flashback (Week of 8/20/07)
What was new and interesting during the week of 8/20/07?
Copyright
- "Behind the Scenes at the Copyright Determinator"
- "Big Webcasters Agree to Royalty Cap Deal, DRM to Be 'Discussed' Later"
- "Foundation on which RIAA Builds Cases in Danger of Being Undermined"
- "Microsoft: We're Not Google, and We're Proud of It"
- "More Authors, Less Copyright"
- "Online CD Seller Fights Universal's Bogus Infringement Allegations"
- "RIAA Targets 503 New Students at 58 Colleges & Universities; Continues to Avoid Tangling with Harvard"
- "U of Tennessee Student Says RIAA Subpoena Violates Federal Privacy Law"
Digital Rights Management
- "Are Digital Music Watermarks a Blessing or a Curse?"
- "Is It a DMCA Violation to Tell People to Delete Some Files from Their Hard Drive?"
- "New DRM Scheme Will Let Consumers Stream Cable TV over Home Networks"
- "Wal-Mart Offers DRM-Free Music Downloads"
- "Where Can You Get DRM-Free Tracks?"
Digital Technology
- "Google Exec Touts Universal Search Model"
- "Japanese Researchers Aim to Replace the Internet"
- "Microsoft Uses Silverlight for Experimental Search Site"
- "A New Competitor to Second Life"
- "Paramount to Drop Blu-Ray HD DVDs"
- "The Road to WiMAX"
Other
- "Oklahoma Library Meets the BOSS"
- "I-Schools Form iCaucus to Brand the Field"
- "WHOIS Privacy Reform Reaches Dead End"
Scholarly Communication
- "And while I’m Being Cranky"
- "Anthropological Growing Pains"
- "AnthroSource Moves to Wiley-Blackwell"
- "Bentham Open Access "
- "Dispelling Five Myths about E-books "
- "Electronic Books with Musty Book Smell Launched"
- "The Google Exchange"
- "JASIS Pushing to Liberalize Author Agreements"
- "Library Literature: Academic and Generally Useless?"
- "Making Digital Books into Page Turners "
- "The Metrics of Social Scholarship"
- "Publishers Launch an Anti-OA Lobbying Organization"
- "Publishing and Values"
- "SciVee Launch = Scientific Publication and Video Presentation"
- "Washington U Reaffirms Its BMC Membership"
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