Author Archives: scaife

Reflections concerning podcasts and education from Bryan Alexander.

Samuelson’s course at Berkeley on Law 278.31 Technology and Intellectual Property in Law now comes in a series of podcasts.  “If you are interested in the basics of copyright law from one of the best in the country, it is quite … Continue reading →

From John Battelle’s Searchblog: Boing Boing has recently been added to a blacklist of “nudity” related sites run by the US-based company Secure Computing, resulting in its being banned in entire countries – like the UAE, as well as many … Continue reading →

Brent Seales alerts me to the fact that the Wikipedia article on Herculaneum now links to an article on the EDUCE project (down at the bottom).  The Herculaneum Society site also has lots of good links to recent news.

I noticed the Center for Hellenic Studies in the background behind the pro-Denmark rally pictured on Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish today.

Elizabeth Townsend Gard writes: January 1, 2006 brought a fresh new crop of unpublished works into the public domain.  Now, the unpublished works of anyone dead since 1935  are in the public domain.  17 USC 303(a). Here a a few … Continue reading →

Electronic Frontier Foundation has an amusing post today, in the finger-in-the-dike category: RIAA Says Ripping CDs to Your iPod is NOT Fair Use

“We already knew that Yahoo! collaborates enthusiastically with the Chinese regime in questions of censorship, and now we know it is a Chinese police informant as well,” Reporters Without Borders said in a statement. More from John Battelle.