According to Robert Brauneis’ new paper, “Copyright and the World’s Most Popular Song”, the song “Happy Birthday To You” — long held as an example by us copyright reformists — is most likely not copyrighted after all, due to the tortuous path of ownership and failure to re-register.[linked from patry copyright blog]
See also the brauneis [...]
This is great news. The Open Humanities Press (OHP) aims to be for the humanities what many similar archives and endeavors have been for the sciences.
It will begin including the following journals: Cosmos and History, Culture Machine, Fibreculture, Film-Philosophy, International Journal of Zizek Studies, Parrhesia and Vectors.
link from peter suber @ open access news
In Burger with a Side of Spies (editorial, NYT 5/7), Eric Schlosser calls for legislation to protect people from private entities, á la the Bill of rights.
The article discusses a number of incidents, including spying and infiltration - by HP on journalists; - by a private security firm on Greenpeace & other environmentalist groups; [...]
I wanted to post a quick note here to let everyone know that I will not be posting much for a little bit for a number of reason. My laptop has crashed and I must be off to buy a new hard drive for it this evening so the wonderful people at Apple can fix [...]
The current New Yorker (2008/5/12) is chock-full of good stuff:
* Malcolm Gladwell, In the Air, New Yorker. link from MC on closed mailing list
Invention is part of zeitgeist. Many people come up with the same ideas at the same moment — true in her field, my partner says, and it looks true from any study [...]
Classified below: Portable computers already known we in the whole
world some delivery dates for Eee 900, but ASUS came true with the
deets from Stateside today, thus if you are on the market, is ready
for recreation unboxing on May 12. A plethora of retailers on line
should take your $549 pre-orders soon, including the Amazon, Buy.com,
Newegg, mall [...]
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Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment.
The US smartphone market may continue to be dominated by mobile platforms from Apple, Microsoft, and RIM, but Linux has been creeping into ever more mobile devices in the last few years. Some Motorola RAZR 2 models have donned [...]