Can Tech Rescue America’s Big Cities? [Business Week]
Conversations on Google Reader Shared Items Are Booming. [Louis Gray]
How to fix URL-shorteners. [Dave Winer]
Why aren’t we paying for news? [Reflections of a Newsosaur]
Google Rivals Will Oppose Book Settlement. [New York Times]
Copy rights and wrongs. [Doc Searls Weblog]
Shared Items
Wendy Seltzer, a Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center, joined Howard Greenstein from Supernova Hub to discuss patents and policy, law in the Network Age, and a project called the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse.
ChillingEffects.org: Chilling Effects aims to help you understand the protections that the First Amendment and intellectual property laws give to your online [...]
If you podcast, or listen to podcasts, listen to This Week in Law and their coverage of the VoloMedia’s podcasting patent and RSS, patent trolls and more. TWil is a weekly series covering issues in technology law on Twit.tv. Hosts: Denise Howell, J. Matt Buchanan, Stephen Nipper, and Adam Bagwell.
Watch Lawrence Lessig, author and professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school’s Center for Internet and Society, present his viewpoints on the Google Book search settlement. From MediaBerkman and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
(1) Authors Guild Release | (2) Google Release
CNET: Elinor Mills of CNET leads with a more detailed explanation about the denial of service attack that led to the site-wide outage at Twitter and impacted other sites including Facebook. Accoring to CNET the attack targeted one user.
Mashable: Denial of service attacks being investigated by Google, Twitter, Facebook. More from Twitter’s blog.
Ars Technica: [...]
Great quote from the Ars Technica article: “Mark Helprin sets out to single-handedly defend copyright from the barbarian freetard hordes…Where is all this coming from? It turns out that Helprin is kind of—how do I say this in terms he might understand?—an asshole.” – Nate Anderson, Ars Technica
Ars Technica: Free culture or “digital barbarism”? A [...]
From NPR’s On The Media. For the full Copyright Flack transcript visit NPR.
With the AP’s new news DRM distribution system and the struggling newspaper industry, NPR and First Amendment lawyer David Marburger discusses the redistribution of the news and the U.S. Copyright Act.