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...Reprinted by permission from Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life's Adversities by Elizabeth Edwards. Copyright 2009 by Elizabeth Edwards. To be published by Broadway Books, a division of Random House...
...soon. All objections must be postmarked May 5, 2009 or earlier. And objections, of course, are being raised from all sides.The settlement has been under fire from the moment it was signed into existence. Aimed to clear up a 3-year-old class action suit accusing Google of copyright infringement, the terms of the agreement go beyond merely settling the accusations, setting the stage for Google Book Search to become the biggest library in the world. It cedes to Google the digital rights to all “orphan books,” any book still copyrighted...
...very strong contract which OGC and Mail2World spent months drafting, and it addresses specifically issues of security, issues of ownership of data, issues of FERPA, issues of DMCA notices,” he says, referring to the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. “We want to make sure that the experience of the student is the same in terms of the protection they received under our systems in-house. From a legal perspective, we feel that’s rock solid.”The measures that have been taken, according...
...high seas in the past couple of weeks. Today comes a reminder that efforts to fight piracy online continues as well. A court in Stockholm on Friday found the four men behind The Pirate Bay, one of the world's biggest free file-sharing sites, guilty of breaching copyright law for allowing its users to illegally access music, movies and TV shows online. Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Carl Lundstrom were sentenced to a year in jail, and ordered to cough up $3.6 million to a raft of entertainment firms - from EMI to Columbia Pictures - bilked, said...
...sense, Sunde is right. Entertainment firms have no choice but to go after services that contribute to copyright infringement; doing nothing would send out the wrong message entirely. But those companies also know that legal action alone isn't going to strangle piracy. "The end of this year will be the 10-year anniversary for music industry legal suits against file sharing networks," points out Mark Mulligan, London-based analyst at Forrester Research. "Throughout that time, file sharing has grown, and grown and grown." The shutdown of Napster in 2001 didn't prevent Kazaa becoming even larger; and Kazaa...