Data Privacy Day 2010
Data Privacy Day is January 28. It’s not a copyright issue, but definitely something that involves the law and libraries. For example, here is a report on a related conference Reader Privacy: Should Library Privacy Standards Apply in the Digital World, which discusses reader privacy for ebooks and proposed priacy standards for books available through [...]
Copyright Criminals Airs January 19
Copyright Criminals, a documentary on sampling and copyright law, airs January 19 at 10:00 p.m. on WOSU, the PBS station in Columbus. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHw8w6il_FQ[/youtube] Interesting quotes from the trailer: “I’ve sued and been sued. That’s the nature of the business.” “If you sample one note of a sound recording, it’s copyright infringement.” “We felt that you [...]