Ah fair use, where would we be without you?
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Super Science Fair Projects: Complete
Guide to Science Fair Projects, Topics
and Experiments
Super Science Fair Projects: Complete
Guide to Science Fair Projects, Topics
and Experiments
05/24/2004 06:24 AMSuper Science Fair Projects: Complete Guide to Science Fair
Projects, Topics and Experimentshttp://www.super-sc
ience-fair-projects.com/Today your teacher announced
that your school is going to have a science fair and students are
responsible for exhibiting their projects. What do you feel?
Enthusiastic? Despondent? Dreadful? Fearful? Excited?" This statement
opens the Super Science Fair Projects site. Actually, whether student
or parent, science fair projects, while great ways to get students
actively involved in learning the scientific method and problem
solving, can be tough assignments. This site may help you with one of
the hardest parts: coming up with an idea. The site does a great job
of walking the visitor through the steps needed to plan and implement
a project, from Choosing a Topic, the Scientific Method, and writing
the Project Report. There are even tips on displaying your project,
rehearsing, winning over judges, and what to expect the day of the
fair. This is definitely a great tool to tap into when planning a
science fair project.[From The NSDL Scout Report for Math,
Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project
1994-2003.
http://scout.wisc.edu/]
Apple: fair play or failure to play
fair?
Apple: fair play or failure to play
fair?
08/07/2004 01:18 AM Is Apple playing fair or not? On the one hand, it's their device,
their music store, and their software.
Hey...not fair!
Hey...not fair!
04/09/2004 04:02 PM"You look intimidating when you aren't smiling" - Jasmine Lam
See...I'm not giving anyone dirty looks on purpose. And yes,...
It's a fair CoP
It's a fair CoP
03/24/2005 08:31 PMvnunet.com Mar 25 2005 12:10AM GMT
The Fair Tax
The Fair Tax
05/01/2004 09:06 AM
The FairTax is a consumption
tax designed to replace the entire federal income tax system,
including personal, payroll, corporate, self-employment, capital
gains, gift, and inheritance taxes.
[more!!] Fair use, or not fair?
Fair use, or not fair?
04/09/2004 04:09 PMLast week we posted a story written by my colleague David Graham
titled Proven: Windows is more secure than Linux. It was one of the
better-read pieces on the site this week. Four days after the article
was posted, David did a Google search and found more than half a dozen
sites had linked to the piece -- flattering. But at least three sites
posted all or a substantial portion of the piece on their own sites --
and that's a problem.
Fair NAT 0.74
Fair NAT 0.74
05/11/2004 09:02 PMA tool that distributes bandwidth in a fair manner among the clients
in the LAN.
It’s Not Fair
It’s Not Fair
09/11/2004 12:31 PMBack in May,
I
whined that Jeremy Hedley of Antipixel would get better pictures
than me even if he was using a drugstore disposable. Well, OK, so it
turned out to be a cellphone camera. Sigh. (Oh yes, and Simon
Phipps
has a little
masterpiece today, too).
Fair NAT 0.68
Fair NAT 0.68
05/03/2004 10:45 AMA tool that distributes bandwidth in a fair manner among the clients
in the LAN.
College To Do Away With Fair Use
College To Do Away With Fair Use
12/17/2003 09:34 PMThe latest silliness from our college campuses is this bit of news
from Ithaca College, where they're planning to tell professors that
fair use no longer exists when it comes to course packs
(the photocopied excerpts from various sources that many professors
use to give students short excerpts from a variety of sources). While
most such course packs do involve some approved material, much of it
is often used on a fair-use basis - but university administrators are
afraid of getting sued. Thus, they're going to tell professors that
they need to license every last bit of content they use. This means
that (a) professors will ditch a lot of materials, because they don't
have time to get approval from everyone or because the publisher wants
too much money to include a single paragraph and (b) the course packs
will be much more expensive with less useful stuff for students. In
some cases, professors will simply put the materials on library loan,
where students will go and photocopy it anyway - basically adding an
"annoyance" factor to the process. It's a great lesson we're teaching
the students of today when they don't get to read certain materials
because it's just too damn expensive.
Fair use is a right AND a defense
Fair use is a right AND a defense
09/09/2004 02:43 PM
Cory Doctorow:
The entertainment companies often tell us that "fair use isn't a
right, it's a defense." It's techincally true, but legally
disingenous. As my cow-orker Fred Von Lohmann noted today in a mailing
list post, "I've heard Peter Jaszi say on several occasions (and more
eloquently), First Amendment is like fair use, technically invoked as
a defense in court, but that doesn't stop us from talking about our
*right* to free speech."
Fair Use and Licensing
Fair Use and Licensing
08/23/2004 10:05 AM"Fair use" is a doctrine of copyright law (with counterparts in patent
and trademark law as well) that allows a degree of unauthorized
copying of copyrighted works. Shocking! Squatters' rights! Can a
teenager take my car for a joy ride and when he's caught plead "fair
use"--that I wasn't using...
Licensing and Fair Use
Licensing and Fair Use
08/23/2004 10:05 AMThe conventional economic objection to copyright and other IP
propertization is that it limits access and by doing so causes a
misallocation of resources: making and distributing another copy of
some piece of software might cost nothing (well, virtually nothing),
and yet if the copyright owner charges a price of...
Fair Use and Misuse
Fair Use and Misuse
08/27/2004 01:58 PMHere is a very worrisome problem concerning fair use. It has to do
with a dichotomy long noted by legal thinkers between the law on the
books and the law in action. They often diverge. And fair use is an
example of this divergence. As I said in an earlier...
Monster Fair 1.1.6
Monster Fair 1.1.6
12/24/2004 12:13 PMWelcome to the greatest pinball show.
Singapore fair use
Singapore fair use
09/27/2004 08:41 AMI'm giving a couple of talks in Singapore in December and one of my
kind hosts has sent me a form on which I'm to list every copyrighted
and non-copyrighted source I use in the handouts, along with this
explanation of what constitutes fair use in Singapore. I'd say that
this is what we have to worry about our copyright law doing to the
free expression of ideas, but I'm afraid you're going to tell me that
this is in fact where our copyright law already is. Sigh....
Photos From Toy Fair
Photos From Toy Fair
02/14/2004 05:15 PMLooks like things got started a bit early today up at Toy Fair in New
York. Here's our first upload of photos from the show. We have three
servers with the files on them which should hopefully ensure fast
browsing. There is also a set of miscellaneous photos of non-Star Wars
things some might find interesting.
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MiscellaneousFair and Balanced
Fair and Balanced
05/04/2004 09:16 PMRead this Editorial titled Leader: iTunes ain't what it used to be
from Silicon.com. If you're like me you'll see many glaring errors.
Let's start...
Fair Use in China
Fair Use in China
09/15/2004 09:25 AMThat'll teach us for teaching the Chinese about the importance of
copyright law. Google has been
threat
ened for using news summaries in its Hong Kong
Google News
service.
Fair and buxom
Fair and buxom
02/05/2005 09:14 PMYou can't make this stuff up.
so it's only fair to join in
so it's only fair to join in
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New Photos From Toy Fair
New Photos From Toy Fair
02/15/2004 07:37 PMIt's been a day full of meeting and greeting, walking and talking,
shooting and re-booting in New York today, but we've finally hit all
Star Wars licensees that attended Toy Fair. Check out the
latest offerings from
Code 3,
LEGO, and
Master
Replicas...who gave Rebelscum an
exclusive look under the
case of an exciting new product...the AT-AT walker!
More detailed information will come soon, but for now enjoy the photos
from
Toy Fair.
Fair Use Elaborated
Fair Use Elaborated
08/27/2004 01:58 PMI've received some interesting comments on my last posting. One of the
commenters asked me to explain the fair use doctrine; here goes. The
doctrine, which has close counterparts in patent and trademark law,
permits a degree of unauthorized copying of copyrighted works.
Shocking! If a teenager takes a joyride...
Chipping Away at Fair Use
Chipping Away at Fair Use
10/29/2003 12:10 AMErnest Has
‘Way More Time Than I Do Lately
"And doing great things with the time he takes — so check out
his blog entry pointing to a wide range of discussions on the DMCA
exceptions that were
posted today by the Librarian of Congress: Ancillary Works on DVD DMCA Exemption Denied" [Furdlog]
Ditto and "what he said." If you've noticed a slowdown at LawMeme, it's because Ernie's posts
are on his personal blog now, and he must be foregoing sleep in order
to post as often as he is at The Importance
Of (RSS
feed here, although I'm going to take a moment to plead with
Ernest to provide a feed with the full text of his posts!). He's
really been on a roll the last few days.
On a more depressing note, make sure you follow the link above to
Ernie's post and read up on the four<
/A> DMCA exemptions&
nbsp;ruling, too, because today our government again decided that we
do not have a right to "fair use" of the digital files we purchase.
Not surprising given the way the entertainment industry has framed the
debate and paid for legislation over the last decade, but discouraging
nonetheless.
If legislators were forced to vote today for the "right of first
sale" of digital files, which is the exemption that has traditionally
allowed libraries to circulate physical materials, I wonder how many
of them would blindly sign it away without a second thought to
libraries. If public libraries didn't already exist, would we be able
to start them in this day and age? My guess is no.
Fair and Balanced?
Fair and Balanced?
10/28/2003 11:07 PM
Bill Gates recently got together with Steve Mills from IBM and
demonstrated some web services interoperability between our two
companies' products. It has taken awhile to get to this point,
from the initial hype to the point where some of these key scenarios
work without smoke and mirrors; so it is nice to see a "status report"
like this.
The first response I saw came in the form of this shrill attack
piece run on CNET. The author seems stuck in the last
century, when people still bought the big lie about "write once run
anywhere". He fails to explain how "runs only on Java" is
significantly different from "runs only on Windows", and completely
misses the point that most enterprises have to support both
types of systems (and many more) and therefore place a high priority
on interop.
The attack piece brought back fond memories of the days when Bob
Metcalfe and Jai Singh (now managing editor at CNET) were together at
the helm of Infoworld. Then I saw another analysis in
CNET, covering the same interop event, but surprisingly balanced,
at least in comparison to the first piece. Finally, I found yet another
analysis on CNET, again covering the same event; and this one is
positively glowingly accurate!
What to make of it? A single presentation by Bill Gates
inspires three different pieces in CNET which cover the whole spectrum
of opinion. Can't complain about that.
~
Tragically, politics shuts down
John Poindexter's data mining program. It seems that only
Safeway is allowed to collect that sort of information about U.S.
citizens.
Fair Use in Action!
Fair Use in Action!
07/27/2004 06:08 PM
We enjoyed the shot above from the completely legal Barbie-in-a-Blender
art gallery, from the folks at free culture. The full story behind the site
is here.
Fair Use with DVDs
Fair Use with DVDs
07/08/2004 08:25 PM
NY Times: Whose DVD? A Debate Over Copies. The free copying tools are
available through Internet sites that are not directly subject to
American law, often because the nations that those sites call home
permit individuals to copy material for their own use. People seeking
such tools need only pose the question in an Internet search engine to
find dozens of sites devoted to the subject, including the Afonic DVD
Guides site (www .dvd-guides.com), run by Joseph Chatzimichail, a
20-year-old electrical and computer engineering student in Salonika,
Greece.
What is fair pricing for MT3
What is fair pricing for MT3
05/13/2004 05:03 PM
Their are a few articles out there saying that some of us only want
something if it is free. Personally...
Fair Use in the Digital Age
Fair Use in the Digital Age
08/10/2004 10:35 AM
Out of concern that the Digital Millenium Copyright Act went too far
in restricting fair use in the digital era, I have drafted and
introduced along with John Doolittle of California H.R. 107, the
Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act. Among other objectives, the bill
would confirm that a person would...
Thomson's Book Fair
Thomson's Book Fair
06/14/2004 11:31 AM
Thomson tries again to sell off its print media unit.
"Fair and balanced" polls
"Fair and balanced" polls
06/25/2004 01:34 PM
"same sex marriages in my fair
commonwealth"
"same sex marriages in my fair
commonwealth"
05/20/2004 02:30 AM
A Small but Important Win for Fair Use
A Small but Important Win for Fair Use
09/01/2004 11:45 AM
Computing Research Policy Blog: Court
Rules 3rd Party Garage Door Openers Don't Violate DMCA. In an
affirmation of fair use rights -- at least, as long as they don't
conflict with any other rights -- a federal court ruled yesterday that
a company that makes interoperable remotes for other companies' garage
door openers isn't violating federal copyright law.
Other News: Play Fair Already
Other News: Play Fair Already
05/04/2004 09:32 AM
Some folks think Apple lacks any sound basis for its attacks on the
PlayFair project.
Maiden Internet Fair
Maiden Internet Fair
04/17/2004 08:34 PM
Bangladesh Daily Star Apr 17 2004 11:38PM GMT
Upcoming conference on Fair Use
Upcoming conference on Fair Use
06/15/2004 01:12 PM
The New York Times has a great
story about the painful process a college professor went through
to clear the rights for a short, informative video to be given to
incoming students:
"It's crazy," Professor Turow said of the labyrinth of
permissions, waivers and fees he navigated to get the roughly three
minutes of video clips included on the CD, which was paid for by a
grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The process took
months, Professor Turow said, and cost about $17,000 in fees and
royalties paid to the various studios and guilds for the use of clips.
The film used ranged from, for example, a 1961 episode of "Ben Casey"
to a more-recent scene from "ER."
As a result of the project, this Friday the Annenberg School for
Communication at University of Pennsylvania will be holding a
conference called Knowledge
Held Hostage that will explore issues of Fair Use in education. The full program
features Creative Commons co-founder and board member Hal Abelson.
[via furdlog]
INDUCE Act: Ipecac for Fair Use
INDUCE Act: Ipecac for Fair Use
06/28/2004 11:18 AM
I have an admission to make. Until about 5 minutes ago, I had never
given money to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Although I have
advocated their support for years, encouraging others to donate --
even on Gizmodo -- my cheap bastardness kept me from digging out my
wallet, which is terribly lame, and I apologize. Now, though, I've
cleared out my Paypal account and joined -- and I didn't donate a lot,
either. Just $25 -- but now I feel like I can go ahead and write the
rest of this post without being a total hypocrite.
Ernest Miller brought to my attention something called the INDUCE
Act, a bit of proposed law spearheaded by Senator Orrin Hatch that
could possibly be used by record companies to sue companies that
"induce infringements of the Copyright Act," meaning portable music
stalwarts like Apple and Toshiba could be penalized for providing
iPods (and the drives that power them) because they encourage users to
download music. If by my description the proposed act seems too vague
and indefinable, that's because, basically, it is. The INDUCE Act
would be another weapon in the music industry's fight against its own
customers -- you and me.
Anyway, the EFF, as usual, does as much better job explaining the
cause for alarm, including a mock complaint against Apple and Toshiba
that the INDUCE Act, if passed, could make possible. If you think they
maybe have a point, you should throw them a little cash, too. Think of
it as a tax on all that free music you've downloaded or traded with
your friends (don't tell them I said that, though).
Read
[EFF]
More on Fair Use, with a Note on Patents
More on Fair Use, with a Note on Patents
08/27/2004 01:58 PM
Many great comments on my fair use posts; can't discuss them all, but
let me make a few points in response: With regard to the Patry-Posner
proposal for creating a new fair-use defense for unauthorized copying
of old copyrighted workers if the copier was unable with reasonable
effort to discover...
Seems fair. Share and enjoy!
Seems fair. Share and enjoy!
07/30/2004 03:49 PM
Last month Norman Walsh
started using a Creative Commons license for his essays (consistently
informed and provocative on XML, Semantic Web, and other technical
topics) and photographs. Norm does us the favor of explaining
his choice:
When I started writing this collection of essays, I slapped on a
quick copyright statement asserting "All Rights Reserved." That was
simple and easy to do, but it has always struck me as overly
conservative.
I wouldn't release code under such a restrictive license, so why
release words or images that way? There's no good reason, and Creative Commons offers a
selection of much more friendly alternatives.
So this morning I'm switching to the Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial License. In a nutshell, you are free: to
copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and to make derivative
works.
But you have provide attribution (you don't get to take credit for
my work) and you can’t use my work for commercial purposes. At least
not without getting my explicit permission first.
Seems fair. Share and enjoy!
A common story, but one that bears repeating when told so simply
and well.
By the way, the design of Norm's site is a real treat. I
can see that he has honed every detail. Those with different tastes my
see nothing special.
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