Salon calls out a Time magazine journalist for his factual errors and sloppy journalism. It sounds to me more like an editorial disguised as journalism. The author misses the Time magazine connection to TimeWarner’s telecommunication services. There’s likely no conspiracy here, but the synergy deserves to at least be acknowledged.
TheStar.com | GTA | Student faces Facebook consequences A Ryerson University student is facing academic misconduct charges for organizing a Facebook group for fellow chemistry students to “get help with some of the questions the professor would give students to do online.” As he describes it: “So we each would be given chemistry questions and …
History suggests copyright crusade is a lost cause (Ars Technica) The fundamental lesson is that property rights are not—and never have been—created by Congressional fiat. Property rights emerge spontaneously from the social fabric of a community. … If copyrights are a form of property right, then the history of American property rights provides clues about …
This Course Brought to You By…. (Inside Higher Ed) Here’s an interesting story about a university course with some pretty blatant corporate ties: [The] IACC [International Anticounterfeiting Coalition] sponsor[ed] a course for which students would create a campaign against counterfeiting in which they would create a fake Web site to tell the story of a …
John is a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He studies the social impact of media technology law and policy, with a special emphasis on copyright. He also is an instructional technology consultant for DoIT-Academic Technology.
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