Flashback (Week of 8/27/07)
What was new and interesting during the week of 8/27/07?
Copyright
- "Anti-Open-Science Hypocrites Infringe Copyright"
- "Australia Drafts Further Tightening of Copyright Laws"
- "Birthmarks for GPL"
- "Fair Use and Licensing"
- "Fair Use and Misuse"
- "Judge Sides with RIAA: File-sharing Apps Lead to Direct Infringement"
- "Newsmaker: Hollywood's Copyright Enforcer"
- "This Time Viacom Is Accused of Violating Copyright"
- "Universities Need to Resist the RIAA, Not Bully Their Students"
- "TorrentSpy to MPAA: Log This! Site Blocks US Searches"
- "Why Copyrights Would Kill the Fashion Industry"
Digital Rights Management
- "Controlling Access—Activation and DRM"
- "Coupons.com DRM Likened to Sony Rootkit"
- "A Digital Game of Cat and Mouse"
- "Does Google Own Your Content?"
- "Gigs & Bytes: DRM Slowly Exits the Building"
- "Green Groups and Social Justice Orgs Fight DRM"
- "WGA Failure: 12,000 Systems Affected, Caused By 'Human Error'"
- "WGA Failure Highlights Major Flaw in Microsoft's Anti-Piracy Strategy"
Digital Technology
- "Body Heat Touted as Future Mobile Power Source"
- "Fragile Media: The Myth of the 100 Year CD-Rom"
- "Google Web Toolkit—Build AJAX apps in the Java language"
- "How Much Paper Would It Take to Print out Wikipedia?"
- "Media Obsolecence"
- "New DVD-sized Disc to Hold 1 to 5 Terabytes of Data"
- "'Second Life': The Promise and Paradox"
- "The US Rural Broadband Crisis"
- "Vint Cerf, aka the Godfather of the Net, Predicts the End of TV as We Know It"
- "Will Podcasting Survive?"
- "Wired Ethernet on Its Way Out Says Analyst"
Other
- "Dangerous Ruling Puts Interactive Web Services at Risk"
- "The Freedom to Read Online"
- "Public Library Blogs: A Few Metrics"
Scholarly Communication
- " 2.0 Be or Not 2.0 Be: Creation and Computers"
- "A Bit More on PRISM"
- "Digitization of Canadian Medical Journals—1911-2007"
- "Duke University Press Announce Participation in SERU"
- "From Hand-crafted to Mass Digitized"
- "Legal Information Management in a Global and Digital Age: Revolution and Tradition"
- "Linking Open Data"
- "Marquette Will Launch 8 OA Journals in 2008"
- "More OAI-PMH vs Atom vs Sitemaps or 'Why I’m a Bit Down on OAI-PMH'"
- "New Approaches to Textbooks"
- "Open Education Search"
- "The Partnership for Research Integrity in Science and Medicine (PRISM)"
- "PLoS and Partners Offer Video Communications with SciVee"
- "Publication and Evaluation in the US"
- "PRISM Doesn't Speak for Rockefeller University Press"
- "PRISM Promotes the Interests of Scientific Publishers: Is it Better to Lobby or to Change?"
- "Publish or Perish"
- "Thomson Scientific Launches the New Face of Research"
- "Unintended Consequences of Digital Books"
- "Why Don’t Researchers Like to Comment on Journal Articles?"
- "Zotero Has a New Version"
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