Julianna Yau’s blog

I started to test Postalicious for Word Press, but it didn’t work yesterday. Here are the links I tried to post, and keep your fingers crossed for it working tonight!

• Judge: posting shock jock clip to the web is “fair use” - Copyright meets censorship and politics again
• Patent Office finds voice, calls for software patent sanity
• Privacy for the next decade, not next week
• A new era in defining and applying fair use norms - Tackling fair use from a different angle
• Why scholarship around digital copyright needs ethnography - Re-thinking the approach to digital copyright
• FreeDocumentaries.org - Free indie documentaries. Sweet.
• Google’s problem with permission - John Degen asks “Why didn’t Google talk to writers and publishers before they started scanning?”
• Legal Torrents - Finally, someone trying to get ahead of the game. Via MAKE blog.
• Howard Knopf: Is Torture by Music a “Performance in Public”? Also see Suzanne G. Cusick’s paper on Music as torture / Music as weapon and Knopf’s follow-up.
• Nintendo no friend of homebrew market, sues DS cart makers

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