Archive for June, 2007

Ray of hope for net radio

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

In their efforts to prevent the imposition of radically higher copyright royalty rates, webcasters and their sympathizers appear to be gaining decent political and public relations traction. On Tuesday, thousands of webcasters staged a "Day of Silence" to protest the nearly three-fold fee increases. Organizers estimate that the action helped spark ...

Publishing exec steals Google’s laptops to make point

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

In an effort to highlight publishers' concerns over Google's scanning of millions of books, Macmillan CEO Richard Charkin (briefly and harmlessly) stole two of Google's laptops from a book expo booth. Here's what he blogs about the stunt: The owner of the computer had not specifically told us not to steal it. ...

Congress threatens colleges in hear-o-mercial for filtering tech

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

Tina and I are now back from our honeymoon trip to Italy and Greece. And so are the copyright absolutists, who were again rattling their swords at colleges' IT departments this week. On Tuesday, there was yet another congressional hearing filled with cries of rampant infringement via campus networks. These have ...