From the monthly archives: January 2010

Can we stream digital video?

On January 27, 2010 By

I had not even had a chance to open my daily e-mail from Inside Higher Ed yesterday before four colleagues had sent me a link to this story about an educational video trade association forcing UCLA to halt its practice of streaming digitized video on course Web sites.  Several suggested that I would surely [...]

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ScienceOnline and copyright anxiety

On January 21, 2010 By

I attended parts of the ScienceOnline 2010 conference, held here in the Research Triangle this weekend.  There was a fascinating array of topics discussed and an interesting crowd of 270+ that included many working scientists, librarians and even journalists.  It was a great opportunity to listen to scientists talk about how they want to [...]

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An amusing chance to review some key ideas

On January 15, 2010 By

There are probably many readers out there who know who Vanessa Hudgens is.  I did not, until I saw some blog posts reporting on her ongoing lawsuit against website owners who apparently posted nude photos of the actress and singer without her permission; see this report (without the pictures) on the TechDirt site.  Not, [...]

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Let the user beware

On January 11, 2010 By

If the box that says “I Accept” (regarding a website’s terms of use)  really is the most dangerous place on the web, as I wrote several weeks ago, it is getting even riskier out there.  For a long time, a relatively safe rule-of-thumb has been that EULAs (end user license agreements) that forced you [...]

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Taxing culture

On January 1, 2010 By

Happy New Year to all.

January 1 is traditionally Public Domain Day, in addition to being a day for parades,  bowl games and hangovers.  That is because most copyright laws stipulate that all copyrights the term of which would expire throughout a particular year actually expire on Dec. 31.  Thus, on January 1, lots of [...]

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