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Thursday Threads: SOPA, PROTECT-IP, Research Works Act, and Broad E-Textbook Pilot
Posted onand last updated January 19, 2012 -
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 …
Posted onand last updated January 18, 2012· 2 minutes reading time -
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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Posted onand last updated January 05, 2012· 5 minutes reading time -
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 …
Posted onand last updated December 15, 2011· 5 minutes reading time -
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 …
Posted onand last updated November 29, 2011· 4 minutes reading time