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Letter About Palin Goes Viral
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:05:00 -0400
This week in Wasilla, Alaska, a woman named Anne Kilkenny sent a letter to some college friends about her former mayor, Sarah Palin. By week's end, the letter was pinging around the country and Kilkenny's phone was ringing off the hook.
Teen Sex, Sex Education And Sarah Palin
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:39:00 -0400
Gov. Sarah Palin has been a strong supporter of programs that advocate abstinence until marriage, and she also opposes explicit sex education. Alaska's law is silent on these issues, however, and it provides no specific funding for sex education in the schools.
Examining Palin's Pentecostal Background
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:14:00 -0400
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has electrified religious conservatives who see her as one of their own. The Republican vice presidential candidate brings evangelical credentials to the ticket and has a Pentecostal background.

The Talk of the Town

Dorothy Wickenden: An old-style, Los Angeles feminist on Obama.
Dorothy Wickenden Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
Rosalind Wyman--seventy-seven years old; doughty feminist; political fund-raiser and philanthropist; hostess to J.F.K., Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton, and Hollywood types too numerous to count; youngest elected member of the Los Angeles City Council (at the age of twenty-two); first woman to run a national political . . .
Lauren Collins: The Brooklyn painter Kehinde Wiley.
Lauren Collins Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
The painter Kehinde Wiley first travelled to Nigeria in 1997. He was trying to find his father, whom he had never met, or, more crucially for a portraitist, seen. (His mother didn’t have any photographs.) After several weeks in Lagos, he found his dad, who welcomed him. But--like any . . .
James Surowiecki: What drives market volatility?
James Surowiecki Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
American investors are frazzled. True, oil prices have fallen from their most vertiginous highs, the dollar is a bit stronger, and the stock market has actually risen over the past month. But none of those things have happened in a smooth and steady fashion. The stock market’s “ascent,” in particular . . .

 

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404 Archive - Legal documents, releases, and information regarding the DMCA.
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321 Studios Plays It Safe Against the DMCA - CNet reports on a request by 321 Studios to have it legally declared that their DVD Copy Plus software doesn't violate the DCMA. Reader discussion. [Slashdot]
Meta Description: [ 321 Studios Plays It Safe Against the DMCA -- article related to The Courts and Your Rights Online. ]

Anti-DMCA Website, The - Information about free speech, the DMCA and you. News, mailing list, cases, quotes, and links.
Meta Description: [ Information about Free Speech, the DMCA and you. ]

404 Association of Research Libraries - Satellite Teleconference - Teleconference Copyright in the New Millennium describes the copyright laws, and discusses the implications for libraries, archives, and educational institutions as they attempt to comply.

CNet - Apple: Burn DVDs--and We'll Burn You - Article on Apple using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to prevent its customers from burning DVDs on external drives using iDVD software.
Meta Description: [ Apple: Burn DVDs--and we'll burn you | The company's lawyers send a stiff warning to a Mac dealer, warning that a patch to its iDVD burning software runs afoul of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. | August 28, 2002, 3:04 PM PT | Declan McCullagh ]

CNET News - Ruling Sounds Sour Note for Record Industry - A court decision hands a major setback to the RIAA's legal tactics for tracking down and suing alleged file traders.
Meta Description: [ Ruling sounds sour note for record industry | A court decision in a high-profile file-swapping case means the Recording Industry Association of America will have to change its tactics. | December 19, 2003, 7:00 PM PT ]

DMCA Protection at U.S. Border - U.S. Customs officials have blocked shipments from one of the largest online video game retailers, hoping to stop the import of products that may run afoul of federal copyright protections. By Brad King. [Wired]
Meta Description: [ Read the latest video game, gaming systems and console news, including Sony PS3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, handhelds PSP and Nintendo DS from Wired.com ]

DMCA Protects AOL From Harlan Ellison Lawsuit - A federal court ruling last week suggests that copyright owners will find one of computing's oldest peer-to-peer networks, UseNet, much harder to tame than Napster. By Steven Bonisteel. [Newsbytes]

Illegal Art - Online exhibition exploring the impact of copyright law on free expression.

kuro5hin: DMCA suspends free speech, another way! - Companies are now using the DMCA notice and safe harbor provisions to shut down websites that are critical of them.

Legal Protection Turns Service Providers Into Speech Police - Free speech advocates say that the DMCA is an invitation to abuse by powerful copyright holders. [Associated Press]

404 MacOPINION: A Copyright Fable - Short fiction about a DMCA future by Marc Zeedar.

New Anti-Circumvention Rulemaking Coming Soon - Copyright regulators are considering a rare public comment process on the controversial DMCA law. News and reader discussion. [Slashdot]
Meta Description: [ New Anti-Circumvention Rulemaking Coming Soon -- article related to United States and Your Rights Online. ]

NewsForge: Does this article violate the DMCA? - Editorial by Grant Gross about how the RIAA's attempt to suppress Professor Felten's SDMI paper uses the DMCA to erode free speech.
Meta Description: [ - By Grant Gross - In the three years since the U.S. Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the law's anti-circumvention provisions have now gone head to head with the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment in a handful of cases. So far, freedom of speech is getting its ass kicked... ]

On Trial: Digital Copyright Law - The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on Thursday in an attempt to overturn key portions of a controversial 1998 copyright law. By Declan McCullagh. [CNet]
Meta Description: [ On trial: Digital copyright law | By filing suit on Thursday, the American Civil Liberties Union hopes to prompt the first ruling that would curtail the wide reach of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. | July 25, 2002, 9:00 AM PT | Declan McCullagh ]

Open Law - Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society. OpenLaw assisted in the DeCSS case against 2600 (NYC) from 2/2000 to present. Many of the OpenLaw participants were active in the Free Dmitry case.
Meta Description: [ The Berkman Center's open law public forum, an experiment in public, online drafting of legal argument. Current cases: Eldred v. Ashcroft challenge to the Copyright Term Extension Act ]

Poorly laid plans go astray - Calls for the repeal of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Big corporations wield the DMCA as a legal threat. The law is tilted so that a defense would likely be ruinous. [The Japan Times]
Meta Description: [ The Japan Times is Japan's leading English-language daily newspaper. ]

Red Hat Fights the DMCA - Red Hat has struck a small blow against the DMCA, by publishing a security patch which can only be explained fully to people who are not within US jurisdiction. By John Lettice. [Register USA]

Register: Linux Update Withholds Security Info on DMCA Terror - Citing a controversial U.S. copyright law, a top Linux developer announced this week that Americans would not be given details about the security fixes in an update to the open source operating system, a first for a software development community that prides itself on transparency. By Kevin Poulsen.

Salon - Replay It Again, Sam - Effects and reactions from Microsoft selling a new computer that will make trading TV shows as easy as using Napster.

Salon: Fingered by the movie cops - Under today's copyright laws, you are guilty until proven innocent. I know -- it happened to me. By Amita Guha.

Salon: No free speech for animal rights Web sites - A British medical research firm hammers its online opponents, courtesy of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. By Katharine Mieszkowski.

Security Warning Draws DMCA Threat - Hewlett Packard has found a new club to use to pound researchers who unearth flaws in the company's software: the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. By Declan McCullagh. [CNET]
Meta Description: [ Security warning draws DMCA threat | Hewlett-Packard targets researchers for discussing a software vulnerability in what appears to be the first attempt to expand controversial copy protection law to security flaws. | July 30, 2002, 4:48 PM PT | Declan McCullagh ]

Should the DMCA Prevail - Analysis of the constitutionality of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Master's thesis by Sergey G. Zaytsev.
Meta Description: [ Should the DMCA Prevail: Analysis of the Constitutionality of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ]

Slashdot: US Copyright Office Releases DMCA Advisory Report - The US Copyright Office's congressionally-mandated advisory report on the effect of the DMCA is in, and at first glance it doesn't look too good.
Meta Description: [ US Copyright Office Releases DMCA Advisory Report -- article related to United States and Your Rights Online. ]

Telepolis: The Internet Backlash - With a mixture of technological fixes and legal pressures, large institutions are trying extend copyright protection in order to regain control over the flows of information. By Felix Stalder.

The DMCA and You - Discusses several DMCA case studies and effects on computers, encryption, DVD decoding, ptv's (Tivo, Replay), satellite television and video games.

The Register - Congress Reps Launch Fightback on DRM Rights Erosion - Two US Congress representatives are this week raising the standard of rebellion against the entertainment business' use of Digital Rights Management and the DMCA to erode consumer rights.

The Register - Tech Giants Back Fair Use Bills - The IT industry's giants including Intel rally behind a bill announced by Congressman Rick Boucher to protect Fair Use in the wake of the DMCA.

Time to Rewrite the DMCA - Editorial by Representative Rick Boucher about the DMCA's threat to fair use rights. [CNet]
Meta Description: [ Time to rewrite the DMCA | U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher says the law is flawed and has tipped the copyright balance toward complete protection and away from information availability. | January 29, 2002, 12:00 PM PT | Rick Boucher ]

U.S. Copyright Office - CARP and Licensing Information - Documents from the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel proceedings in Acrobat format.
Meta Description: [ U.S. Copyright Office is an office of public record for copyright registration and deposit of copyright material. ]

Upstart Seeks Court OK for DVD Copying - In a pre-emptive strike to stave off the wrath of the movie industry, a small software company is asking a federal judge for permission to sell and market its product for copying DVDs. By Lisa M. Bowman. [CNet]
Meta Description: [ Upstart seeks court OK for DVD copying | In a pre-emptive strike to stave off the wrath of the movie industry, a small software company is asking a federal judge for permission to sell and market its product for copying DVDs. | April 23, 2002, 10:35 AM PT | Lisa M. Bowman ]

What Colleges and Universities Need to Know about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act - A practitioner's journal from 1999 which includes useful information relevant to the DMCA for colleges and/or universities.
Meta Description: [ A practitioner's journal about managing and using information resources on college and university campuses ]

Wired: Copyright Clash Shutters Speech - The law enacted to ensure the protection of intellectual property in the Internet age is being called on in several court battles with free speech advocates. By Brad King.
Meta Description: [ Get product reviews and news about digital cameras, computers, laptops, mp3 players, iPod, PDAs, phones, PCs, Macs and wireless from Wired.com ]

Wired: Dutch Cryptographer Cries Foul - A Dutch cryptography expert blasted as horrific the ambiguous legal reach of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which he feels bars him from publishing his work, even in the Netherlands. By Steve Kettmann.
Meta Description: [ Get in-depth politics and legal news coverage including online privacy, Internet security, government regulations, censorship and free speech from Wired.com. ]

Yahoo Groups: DMCA-Minnesota - Minnesota-based organization to free Americans from fear of prosecution under the DMCA.
Meta Description: [ DMCA-minnesota: DMCA-minnesota ]

ZDNet: Security experts protest copyright act - Two well-known computer security experts pulled down their works from the Internet this week for fear of being prosecuted under 1998's Digital Millennium Copyright Act. By Robert Lemos.
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