shouting loudly

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 400,000 calls to Congress. [...]

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. If s/he had, [...]

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 gone on for years; [...]