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...President Rafael Correa's government - which recently trumpeted the creation of "revolutionary defense committees" that opponents call Cuban-style organs for spying on citizens - control over even private media content. In Nicaragua, President Daniel Ortega wants to require all private media to employ only reporters affiliated with the journalism guild controlled by his Sandinista Party. Anyone else caught practicing the profession in Nicaragua would be considered illegal and subject to criminal punishment. (Read about Obama's challenges in Latin America...
...regular upkeep. 8) Resident Deans. House Masters. House Administrators. House Superintendents. Assistant Resident Deans. Assistants to the Assistant Resident Deans? This is not the Federal Government of the United States. We do not need a system of checks-and-balances. 7) While many can appreciate the effort to re-guild the walls of Adams dining hall, we’d rather be able to sit down to a hot breakfast. Eat the gold dome we cannot. 6) We can get drunk in public without spending thousands to have Sarah Bareilles serenade us with the one song we know. Half...
...Google Books project has so far amassed 10 million books, in 400 languages (Latin, apparently, is one of the most common). But Google started all of this scanning without consulting rights holders first, and so in 2005, two U.S. bodies, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and the Authors Guild, launched a class action against Google for copyright infringement. (See the 50 best inventions...
...able to offer users the option to purchase full digital access to books that are still in copyright but are out of print - turning itself, in effect, into a huge bookstore. As part of the settlement, Google pledged to pay $125 million compensation to the AAP and the Authors Guild and, in the future, to pass on a 67% share of the proceeds every time it sells an out-of-print book online. (See pictures of Google Earth...
...been a rush of last-minute filings, for and against the agreement, from rival companies, publishers, advocacy groups and even foreign governments, including Germany's (which opposes the agreement). Should Judge Denny Chin find against the settlement, the class action originally launched by the AAP and the Authors Guild would, in theory, continue. He could also decide against outright approval but still sketch out other possible solutions. (See a video on this year's summer reading...