a travelogue
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01/31/07
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Blog Post from
Dover Drive // Newport Beach // California
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Catologue Raisonne
Jeffrey Toobin, a legal columnist over at the New Yorker, has written a piece about Google’s book scanning project and the legal challenges it faces. In a nutshell, two lawsuits are threatening the Google Book Search project, one is from a consortium of big name publishers who, curiously, are also Google’s partners in the project, and the other is from …
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Topics:
Books,
Copyright,
Writing
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10/08/05
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Blog Post from
28 Graves Ave // Northampton // Massachesetts
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The New Luddites
It might just be what I happen to read, but the big topic of late on this here internet seems to the Author’s Guild lawsuit against Google. For those that haven’t heard, the Author’s Guild has brought a class action lawsuit against Google to try and stop Google from indexing scanned books. I am a writer and I make about …
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Topics:
Copyright,
Ignorance,
Technology,
Writing
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11/02/03
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Blog Post from
28 Graves Ave // Northampton // Massachesetts
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Take Me To Your Leader II
In the last article, I made the case that as fans of certain musicians we owe it to them to purchase their records rather than download them. And I made it more rationally than the RIAA will ever do because I am not a raving lunatic. At least most of the time I’m not. There have been a couple incidents …
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Topics:
Copyright,
Ignorance,
Insanity,
Music