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Copyright
“Dancing Baby” Appeals Court Decision Stands Minus the “Fair Use” Algorithms – Hollywood Reporter
Court revises its opinion, but confirms earlier decision that rightsholders must consider fair use before issuing takedown notices
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The Monkey Selfie Monkey just filed an appeal – Motherboard.com
? THE MONKEY SELFIE MONKEY IS APPEALING HIS COPYRIGHT CASE ?
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Court rules copyright is infringed by 8 second video clips – TechnoLlama
Detailed analysis of -European- court ruling that copyright is infringed by 8 second video clips
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Does fair use knowledge change creative behavior?
Presentation by @paufder on how fair use changes behavior, empirical research on success of the best practices
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International and Comparative User Rights in the Digital Economy – Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property
Recorded video and links to research papers from this American University law school event.
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Other Intellectual Property and Techlaw
Direct link to PDF of CA state appellate opinion invalidating “browsewrap” licenses
First? California appellate ruling on validity of “browsewrap” Terms of Use. Invalid. Court provides guidance. [pdf]
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For what its worth, many 1st amendment experts see little threat to press freedom from Hulk/Gawker verdict
NYT analysis of the Hulk Hogan/Gawker ruling
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If the FBI Is So Worried About Car Hacking, Why Is It Fighting Encryption? | Motherboard
If the FBI Is So Worried About Car Hacking, Why Is It Fighting Encryption? via @motherboard
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More on the fight over a vendor trademarking site names in Yosemite Nat’l Park
U.S. steps up fight over Yosemite names, takes fight to TTAB via @SFGate
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Non-legal Techie Info
Open Source Photogrammetry: Ditching 123D Catch – We Did Stuff
Interesting post showcasing wide variety of open-source software alternatives that build 3D models from photos. #dla3d #LTC2016
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WowSuchJake on Twitter
The only correct way to actually store passwords. –@ThatAndromeda #LTC2016 #saltandburn #imeansaltandhash
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Research Life
AllTrials – American Medical Association joins AllTrials
The American Medical Association just signed up to AllTrials, a project to increase transparency around clinical trials.
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Author Services Sharing your work
Nancy’s twitter comments: If you must go w/ toll-access publisher, Taylor&Francis does a good job explaining their preset options for sharing
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new skills, same as the old skills | Feral Librarian
Chris Bourg, of the MIT Libraries, on what is -not- changing about librarianship
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Sick of Impact Factors | Reciprocal Space
British researcher’s thorough review of the problems with impact factors. (Post from 2012, shared at recent open access conference.)
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Just Neato
DPLA Primary Source Sets
We’re meeting with our Education Advisory Committee this weekend—their primary source sets have been a big hit:
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CopyrightLibn on Twitter
Minnesotans are just inherently socialists, I think.
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Siva Vaidhyanathan on Twitter
The First Lady, the Queen, and Ms. Misdemeanor enjoy a moment at #SXSW
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