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Stop SOPA and Protect-IP
This blog will be present first-time users with a warning page on January 18, 2012 -- the day that many internet sites are using to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) -- and January 23rd, 2012 -- the day before the U.S. Senate may vote on the PROTECT-IP act. DLTJ is …
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Thursday Threads: Legal Implications of SOPA/PROTECT-IP, Learning from Best Buy, Open Source in Medicine
Welcome to the new year! Threads this week include a brief analysis of the legal problems in store if SOPA and PROTECT-IP become law, what an analysis of the problems with Best Buy might teach libraries, and why open source licensing of clinical tools is important.
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Thursday Threads: SOPA Suspended, Lending Chromebooks, OCLC Introduces WorldShare
This is the just-in-time-for-the-holidays edition of DLTJ Thursday Threads. The U.S. House Judiciary Committee suspended work on SOPA, and there was much relief from the technology community. The Palo Alto Public Library announced plans to lend Chromebooks (laptops with Google's cloud-based operating system) to patrons. And OCLC announced a …
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Campaign Contributions and Judiciary Committee Votes on SOPA (and a Plug for Rootstrikers)
I've been keeping an eye on the House Judiciary Committee markup session for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) that have happened over the past two days along with the tweets that have been going out in reaction to the proceedings. One of the running threads in the commentary has …
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Thursday Threads: Alternative to SOPA/PROTECT-IP, Costs of Resource Sharing, Communicating with IT Staff
In this week's news we still have activity on legislation before the U.S. Congress on measures to protect intellectual property on the internet. This is serious stuff with serious people trying to make this go quietly into law. Well, it may not go quietly into law, but it has …
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In Opposition to the PROTECT IP Act (Also)
Earlier this month there was an amazing groundswell of opposition to SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act. I participated in a 1-day anticensorship campaign designed to bring awareness …
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Thursday Threads: Thanksgiving Edition 2011 -- What I'm Thankful For
With Thursday Threads coming on a Thanksgiving Thursday, it seems appropriate to use a theme of what I'm thankful for. So, in this edition of DLTJ Thursday Threads I'm offering three things: open source software, the internet, and public libraries. Reading this on Thanksgiving? Feel free to offer what you …
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In Opposition to the Stop Online Privacy Act
This blog will be participating in the American Censorship Day awareness campaign on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 to show opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (H.R …
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