actually, lessig isn't working on copyright any longer. so his blog would be good for past stuff, but not going forward.
scott -- R. Scott Granneman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ www.granneman.com Full list of publications @ http://www.granneman.com/publications My new book: Linux Phrasebook @ http://www.granneman.com/books "Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from." ---Al Franken On Sep 4, 2008, at 1:50 PM, Sean Burns wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Scott Granneman > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Here ya go. >> >> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/update-to-google-chromes-terms-of.html > > And just as I suspected, that stuff is there because of copyright law: > > "This section is included because, under copyright law, Google needs > what's called a "license" to display or transmit content." > > If anyone really wants to see the kind of legalese that's in these > "contracts" go away, maybe do something about copyright. > > Here's a good PDF on the public domain and why it's important: > > http://www.publicknowledge.org/pdf/why_the_public_domain_matters.pdf > > A couple good blogs to follow: > > http://www.sivacracy.net/ > http://www.lessig.org/blog/ > > And Lawrence Lessig has an awesome presentation on copyright history: > http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/ > > And Siva Vaidhyanathan has a great book on copyright: > > Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How > it Threatens Creativity > > http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46856111&referer=brief_results > > Sean > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
