Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Copyright on NPR

If you missed the Morning Edition story about Fair Use and Copyright on Monday, here is a link: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10040628

Thursday, May 3, 2007

From Soup to Nuts: Copyright, Social Networking Technologies, and Electronic Surveillance

From the Educause Midwest Regional Conference in March. You can read the text of a speech on a variety of issues including digital copyright. Below is a copy of the abstract from the websites

This session will survey a number of current issues of interest to higher education IT such as developments in the digital copyright arena, the present and future of social networking technologies (from the law and policy perspectives), and electronic surveillance five years since the passage of the Patriot Act (from a security-privacy perspective)."

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Privacy versus Intellectual Property:Detection Methods Used by Copyright Holders

I recently mentioned in a copyright presentation that the web has made it much easier for people to catch your copyright violations. And there are armies of people out there trying to catch you. Here is an interesting paper on just how they go about it.

Privacy versus Intellectual Property:Detection Methods Used by Copyright Holders