Quantcast
Channel: Politics & Law Archives - The Travelin' Librarian
Browsing all 220 articles
Browse latest View live

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: ‘I don’t want to live in a society that...

View Article



Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Major Book Publishers Demand Identities of Usenet Uploaders (Remember Usenet?)

Some of the world’s largest book publishers are going after two prolific Usenet uploaders. The publishers have obtained subpoenas from a federal court in the District of Columbia which require major...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

“More than machinery we need humanity” – The NSA, Verizon, Prism, and You

I’m definitely adding LibrarianShipwreck to my must-read list! The real scandal is not that the NSA obtained millions of phone numbers from Verizon, it is not that through Prism the government spied on...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Gene patent decision: In Plain English

The Supreme Court long ago ruled that an inventor who discovers a phenomenon in nature, or figures out a “law of nature,” cannot get an exclusive right to use or sell that by obtaining a patent from...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

About Frackin’ Time: Someone’s suing over Happy Birthday’s copyright status.

Jennifer Nelson is my hero! The song “Happy Birthday to You” is widely credited for being the most performed song in the world. But one of its latest venues may be the federal courthouse in Manhattan,...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

danah boyd: where “nothing to hide” fails as logic

So where does this get us? People often feel immune from state surveillance because they’ve done nothing wrong. This rhetoric is perpetuated on American TV. And yet the same media who tells them they...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

How is this useful Congressman Fortenberry

Last week, prior to the recent NSA scandals, my Congressman was concerned about the recent IRS (maybe) scandals (on the NSA issue, so far I am unaware he even has an opinion,) his e-mail newsletter...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Leaked: NSA’s Talking Points Defending NSA Surveillance

The government has been passing around some “talking points” to politicians and the press trying to spin the NSA surveillance story. We’ve got the talking points about scooping up business records...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Al Gore: NSA Surveillance Violates The Constitution

“This in my view violates the constitution. The fourth amendment and the first amendment – and the fourth amendment language is crystal clear,” he told The Guardian, which revealed the agency’s phone...

View Article


Big Brother’s Prying Eyes

Whatever your take on recent revelations about government spying on our phone calls and Internet activity, there’s no denying that Big Brother is bigger and less brotherly than we thought. What’s the...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

How Copyright Makes Books and Music Disappear (and How Secondary Liability...

Abstract: A random sample of new books for sale on Amazon.com shows three times more books initially published in the 1850’s are for sale than new books from the 1950’s. Why? This paper presents new...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Life-size gorilla sculpture dressed as Freddie Mercury removed from city...

A gorilla sculpture dressed in a famous Freddie Mercury costume has been removed from Norwich city centre after a charity claimed the animal’s suit breached copyright. The sculpture – dressed in the...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Fan-Created Subtitle Site Raided By Swedish Police

A new development in the increasingly controversial war against alleged copyright infringement is raising eyebrows in Sweden. Police raided Undertexter.se yesterday, a site which indexes subtitles that...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Judge Orders U.S. to Release Aaron Swartz’s Secret Service File

A federal judge in Washington, D.C. on Friday ordered the government to promptly start releasing thousands of pages of Secret Service documents about the late activist and coder Aaron Swartz, following...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Judge: Apple Conspired To Price-Fix eBooks

U.S. District Judge Denise L. Cote’s ruling in the non-jury trial sets back what Apple claimed all along: that their discussions with the five major book publishers was merely doing business in a new...

View Article


Cory Doctorow: Hacking Politics

Computers permeate almost every aspect of our lives. To fully understand the world we live in, we must understand computers and the language of 1s and 0s they speak. The characters in Cory Doctorow’s...

View Article

See how easily freaks can take over your life

Would you panic while internet crooks took over your life? We put one real victim through the test. We scared the hell out of him by gradually taking over his life. His freaked out reactions, should...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The public domain. Now available for only $165 an hour!

Figuring out if a work is renewed can be a tricky business. The only official records of renewal are held by the Copyright Office in Washington D.C.  However records before January 1, 1978 are not...

View Article

YouTube Disclaimer Blues

View Article

USA vs. NSA

View Article
Browsing all 220 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images