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The New York Times famously prides itself on publishing "all the news that's fit to print." But that slogan was coined a century before the digital age. Last week, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that freelance writers retained full rights to their work in cyberspace, the Times began...
The zapping of intellectual property reflects the passions unleashed by the high court's 7-2 decision in a case that the National Writers Union brought against five publishers and database companies in 1993. Defendants include not only the Times but TIME publisher Time Inc.--which also plans to purge...
The purge affects only pre-1995 articles; since then, publishers have generally retained electronic rights as part of any freelance contract. The court ruling "really has to do with filling in the blanks on earlier contracts that hadn't anticipated the Internet revolution," says Jonathan Zittrain, who teaches cyberlaw at...
If you've ever done any family planning, you know the conventional wisdom: children born less than two or three years apart are developmentally doomed to a lifetime of rivalry, with their weary parents as eternal referees. But what if you learned there are proven strategies for helping closely spaced...
To begin meditating, focus on controlled breathing. Purge all thought, particularly the "three poisons" of greed, anger and ignorance, and concentrate on the here and now. Alternatively focus on Hwadu, known in Japanese as Koan, an enigmatic and ill-defined term that describes the apex of the concentrated mind. Followers...