Thursday 9 February 2012

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We Don't Have A 'Wild West' Internet Now, But We Will If SOPA Or Similar Is Passed - http://bit.ly/xWLy6d time to kill the meme

USPTO Says Copies Of Academic Articles Submitted As Prior Art Are Covered By Fair Use - http://bit.ly/xfmORt #patents v. #copyright

Saylor Foundation Awards Prizes To Free College Textbooks - http://bit.ly/Ab4Jxo great move #opentextbooks #education

#ACTA: Die 10 Mythen der EU-Kommission - http://bit.ly/x5oh6f a good #german debunking

Planned Post-ACTA Repression in European Union: The Documents - http://bit.ly/zrOnxQ important piece on where #ACTA takes us

Anti-Pirate Prejudice Taught to Beginning Programmers - http://bit.ly/zOqjnm good point (v @TPB_Stun @Asher_Wolf)

Is BitTorrent Done? Major Torrent Sites Consider Shutting Down - http://bit.ly/zJ3eBs landscape certainly shifting

PolitiFact Trashes Lamar Smith: Says His Claims About Economic Impact Of Piracy Are Flat Out False - http://bit.ly/yiRrmy surprise! #sopa

Genome of extinct human relative placed on Amazon web services - http://bit.ly/xdnG5O exciting stuff

Eight Ways #Monsanto Fails at Sustainable Agriculture - http://bit.ly/zfGnAW good piece from Union of Concerned Scientists

Bundeswehr setzt auf Open Source und SOA - http://bit.ly/yaI1Td another good win for #opensource #de

Judge Refuses to Shut Down Online Market for Used MP3s - http://bit.ly/y36dpX intriguing

#Publishing 2.0: Content Is Marketing, Profits Come From The Packaging - http://bit.ly/z4dKR3 just think differently

Oregon Tries to Criminalize Tweets - http://onforb.es/yLmMar dangerous stuff

Tory MEP Asks Question on ”Three-Strikes” in #ACTA - http://bit.ly/wI57C8 one of my MEPs, seems particularly clueful

Etsy sidesteps PayPal, builds own payment system for its 2M monthly sales - http://tnw.co/AdtlHm we need more of these

Elsevier’s Alicia Wise on the RWA & #openaccess - http://bit.ly/xzG9Vb superb interview; shows #elsevier still arrogant & clueless

MEP Phil Predergast has a few questions on #ACTA - http://bit.ly/wJMvii wow, kudos; we need more like him (v @agonarch)

FAB✱ Manchester - http://bit.ly/ya4OzV "seeking expressions of interest to contribute to first European FabLabs Summit" (v @SinkDeep @@trox)

#Nginx tries converting Web-server popularity into money - http://cnet.co/z5vUOX sw with interesting story #webservers #apache

RT @reguligence Rep of #Bulact (right holders' lobbyist): #acta's adversaries support organized crime, drugs & prostitution >>nothing else?

"Bill C-11 Is No SOPA": My Response - http://bit.ly/zXbhZK anti #ACTA people should read this: it's how they'll try to ram ACTA through

help, please: what's the accountancy equivalent of AutoCAD in the US? ie, serious, enterprise-level stuff?

MT @MarietjeD66'#ACTA is legislation laundering on an int. level of what would be v difficult to get thru most Parliaments.'-Lambrinidis

RT @DaHammerstein Commissioner De Gucht has asked for closed door meetings with all political groups. >>not a secret treaty, eh? #acta

Congress Passes Bill That Opens US Skies To Unmanned #Drones - http://read.bi/z88vUY what could possibly go wrong? (v @ioerror)

Enough, Already: The #SOPA Debate Ignores How Much #Copyright Protection We Already Have - http://bit.ly/wL4cwK fab post (v @dozykraut)

The Rise Of The 'Professional Amateur' And The Fall Of Gated, Exclusionary 'Clubs' - http://bit.ly/y1AuYs good analysis


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