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DMCA creator Lehman admits failure of DMCA
Bruce Lehman, who, as the Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks under Bill Clinton, was one of the main architects of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, gave a presentation at a conference on copyright reform at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. During his talk, Lehman admitted that "our Clinton administration policies didn't work out very well" and "our attempts at copyright control have not been successful" and laid much of the blame on the recording industry for not adapting to the changing marketplace. Michael Geist, the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa, has more on his blog including video of the Lehman's presentation. Continue reading
Lunchtime Listens: “Who’s Watching YOUR Space?â€
Ok, this one might be several lunchtimes, but I wanted to make sure it's out there. I attended the OCLC Symposium: “Who’s Watching YOUR Space?†at Midwinter ALA in Seattle. The symposium was an extended discussion about social networking practices and trends. It was truly fascinating The panelists included Michael Stephens, Howard Rheingold, Danah Boyd, and Marc Smith. While they were all intriguing, if you're only going to listen to 1 of them, make it Howard's talk. Howard starts out, "I'd probably be in the penitentiary today if it weren't for librarians!" and it gets better and better! The Webcast is 2.5 hours, but here's the 3 minute sneak peak: Continue reading
Lunchtime listens: code4lib conference
This is the first post of what we're calling "Lunchtime listens." The idea being that there's LOTS of good audio/video out there of direct or peripheral interest to the documents community. We're going to post them to FGI to make them more easily findable and give y'all something to do during your lunch breaks (alone or in groups as a brownbag viewing session :-) ) besides staring out the window (not that there's anything *wrong* with staring out the window!). If you come across A/V that you'd like to share with FGI readers, please email us at admin AT freegovinfo DOT info. And without further adieu, Check out the video from the 2007 code4lib conference in Athens, GA. Day one is online including keynote by Karen Schneider, Emily Lynema's talk on "free the data," breakout sessions and lightning talks. Their plan is to put video from the entire conference online. I know several people who went to Code4lib and were completely blown away by the energy, discussions, and community! Code4lib is a "group for folks who are interested in the convergence of computers and library/information science." In other words, they're a growing community of library hackers, developers, open source advocates and fellow travelers who have an active listserv, irc channel etc for communication and support. Continue reading
Gonzalez: mistakes were made on firings of US attorneys (but it was Harriet’s fault!)
According to an article in today's NYT, Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez "admitted" that mistakes were made on the political firings of 8 US attorneys. Senators Charles Schumer and Dianne Feinstein have again called for Gonzalez to step down (see video below). It's now clear that this issue was not a low-level administrative mistake. The House Judiciary Committee has a list of documents regarding the Attorney firings. One of the most bizarre things to emerge was that former Whitehouse Counsel Harriet Miers originally wanted to fire all 93 attorneys. The AP has more (via Huffington Post). Continue reading
FDLP – The Final Frontier
Here is the latest video from "Obsessive Documents Librarians" Productions: This video highlights NASA publications available at many Federal Depository Libraries. Like our other community videos, this one is posted to our videos page. Think you can do a better job? So do I! Please create your own video celebrating Federal Depository Libraries or government information resources. Post it to the web and share the link with us so we can post it to the community videos page! Update 2/12/2007 - Changed video source to Capitol Hill Broadcasting Network for higher video quality. Continue reading
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