A few years ago I decided not to buy any more new books unless, having checked the book out of the library and read it, I was already looking forward to loaning it to friends or rereading it. Clay Shirky’s book, Here Comes Everybody is in that category. In point of fact, I bought it [...]
Woman Who Lost File-Sharing Trial May Get New Trial “A Minnesota woman ordered to pay $222,000 in the nation’s first music download trial may get another chance with a jury. The issue is whether record companies have to prove anyone else actually downloaded their copyrighted songs, or whether it’s enough to argue that a defendant [...]
What is it about mice? (Perhaps we should ask Holly.) First it was the copyright term extension legislation prompted by the imminent entrance of Mickey Mouse into the public domain. Now it’s Mighty Mouse’s turn. “Apple sued over Mighty Mouse”: “A US hardware firm is taking Apple and CBS to court over the Mighty Mouse [...]
I have been over my head in recent months working on grant proposals and the like. Among our major projects (my head hurts to have to say, “among” our major projects) we are working on an online archive for oral histories. You’d think that this would be no big deal. We should be able to [...]
A snapshot of my day today, after a couple of Very Important Meetings: 2:30 pm – “Oh, hey, I’m giving a presentation on Web 2.0 to the staff tomorrow. I should probably start the Powerpoint…” 2:45 – After working diligently in Microsoft Powerpoint 2007 (including spending quality time trying to find the perfect style to [...]
I’m old. I’m grumpy. I’m tired. I still look fabulous though. I’ve got ideas for ideas for drafts of dozens of posts. In the past few months I’ve been on the road to Fort Lauderdale, Toronto, Cozumel, Sarasota, Montreal, Denver, and New York City–most of these trips were business-related and generated ideas for posts with [...]
This one is from Bill Patry’s excellent blog: “Happy Birthday Now Pay the License Fee” “…for copyright geeks, the traditional Happy Birthday has provided fodder for what all that is wrong with copyright. Now, Professor Robert Brauneis of George Washington Law School has blessed us with an exhaustive treatment of the song.” Here’s the link [...]
From the You’re Kidding, Right? department: BBC sends legal threat over fan’s Dr Who knitting patterns. Not competing reproduction of knitting patterns, mind you. The creation of and sharing (for free) of knittings patterns. For those Dr Who fans who desire to knit their favorite characters. I mean, this begs the question of who’s the [...]
AAM Denver’s done and I’m looking forward to a 48-hour nap without the AC running all night. Among various committee and board meetings, I managed to do two presentations. I had the pleasure of presenting a session with two women each with a fantastic sense of humour: Holly Witchey and Diane Andolsek. The session was [...]
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