The death of Copyright? I don't know, but it's not looking too well, right now.

Yeah, I'm not real thrilled about this, for various reasons including the "my work, my decision what gets done with it, not some random corporation."

If you wanted to draw the analogy with "my body my decision," you might not be too far off.



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Originally posted by mb_galleycat at Google Wins 8-Year Book Scanning Battle

http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/google-wins-8-year-book-scanning-battle_b80103

http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/?p=80103

Google has won its controversial book scanning fight with the Author’s Guild. US Circuit Judge Denny Chin ruled in favor of Google on Thursday claiming that Google’s massive book scanning project, in which the online giant scanned millions of books and made them available through search without obtaining the permission of the copyright holders, to be legal.

According to Chin’s ruling, Google’s project makes life easier for research, makes it easier for libraries to obtain digital copies of books, brings old books to light and gives people who would not have access to books access. Here is an excerpt from the ruling

The sole issue now before the Court is whether Google’suse of the copyrighted works is “fair use” under the copyrightlaws. For the reasons set forth below, I conclude that it is.

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What's your poison?

Attended the opening of the "Power of Poison" exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History here in NYC last night. Other than needing to put down some emergency lights in the floor, to offset the lowered lights for the exhibit, I'd give it high marks - interesting, well-presented, and just enough interactivity to offset the text (plus: the digital "book" display was amusing to watch people discover/use).

There are also 3x enlarged bugs, an actual tarantula (please do not tap on the glass), and a live action demo that hopefully will be continued throughout the run of the exhibit, because my companions really enjoyed that part.

I'm not sure if I'm more worried about how much I already knew about poisons, or how little other people seemed to know, though....

The exhibit runs through August 10th 2014, so you've got time to get into the city and see it.

http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/upcoming-exhibitions2/the-power-of-poison

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