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...Verbal Villain or Victim of Censorship? If the outrage over radio-show host Don Imus' racist and sexist slur is to hold any meaning, it will be in its power to help us reflect upon the freedoms, values and conflicts that compose our collective psyche [April 23]. Sadly, our society too often rewards those who traffic in disrespect. Let Imus encourage us to question all who profit from debasement and remind us of the dignified existence our freedoms were meant to provide. David Terhune, New York City...
...find love where you have not looked,” says Tanjeloff, but Check My Radar will only facilitate relationships between people that have already met. “This site will mirror the way that people normally interact.”Galkowski adds that the site is built upon the underlying assumption that in college, relationships are built around two pillars—“who you like and who your friends like.”After registering with Check My Radar, users build personal profiles and join a network—features common to other social networking...
...Learn, a major student loan business. The event’s discussion focused on the blurring of the lines between non- and for-profit organizations providing social services—such as student loans and healthcare—and the need for regulation and transparency. The talk also touched upon how to encourage entrepreneurs to enter the non-profit world. “We must find the balance between greater accountability and transparency without over-regulating organizations trying to do good,” Reynolds said in her closing remarks. Fred T. Goldberg Jr., the former commissioner...
...mere understanding is no reason for a university to voluntarily assist the RIAA with its threatening and abusive tactics. Instead, we should be assisting our students both by explaining the law and by resisting the subpoenas that the RIAA serves upon us. We should be deploying our clinical legal student training programs to defend our targeted students. We should be lobbying Congress for a roll back of the draconian copyright law that the copyright industry has forced upon us. Intellectual property can be efficient when its boundaries are relatively self-evident...
Both law and technology will continue to evolve. And as innovators develop new ways of sharing copyrighted material, the University should engage with both creators and the “fair users” who follow and build upon their works. Finding the right balance will be challenging, but projects such as Noank Media, developed by faculty and fellows at the Berkman Center, provides one glimpse into what the future may hold. Just this year, Noank Media became a functioning international corporation with operations in both China and Canada...