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YouTube Networks: An Inside Look At Their Unsavory Business Practices
via readwriteweb.com “One of the best-known examples of unsavory YouTube network business practices brought to the Fine Brothers’ attention concerned the ???perpetuity clauses??? in contracts teen YouTubers signed without realizing that ???perpetuity??? m…
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Why Facebook’s Argument Against Privacy For Minors Is Doomed
The Federal Trade Commission wants to protect the privacy of minors, but Facebook objects on First Amendment grounds. Here’s why the social network’s argument is weak, self-serving, and bound to fail. Known as the Children’s Online Privacy Protect…
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![via readwriteweb.com "Last week, the long-running lawsuit between Google and the Association of American Publishers that the AAP launched in 2005 was settled. Under its terms, "[t]he settlement acknowledges the rights and interests of copyright-ho...](http://gle.ovo.kom.uni.st/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/60f5a-media_httpwwwreadwrit_cxocl-scaled1000.jpg "7-Year Battle To Stop Google From Digitizing Libraries Is Ending With A Whimper")
7-Year Battle To Stop Google From Digitizing Libraries Is Ending With A Whimper
via readwriteweb.com “Last week, the long-running lawsuit between Google and the Association of American Publishers that the AAP launched in 2005 was settled. Under its terms, “[t]he settlement acknowledges the rights and interests of copyright-ho…
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File-Sharing for Personal Use Declared Legal in Portugal | TorrentFreak
via torrentfreak.com “Hoping to curb the ever-increasing piracy figures in Portugal, local anti-piracy outfit ACAPOR reported the IP-addresses of 2,000 alleged file-sharers to the Attorney General last year. This week the Portuguese prosecutor cam…
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Feds Charge Activist with 13 Felonies for Rogue Downloading of Academic Articles | Threat Level
via wired.com “Federal prosectors added nine new felony counts against well-known coder and activist Aaron Swartz, who was charged last year for allegedly breaching hacking laws by downloading millions of academic articles from a subscription data…
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The Volokh Conspiracy ?? First Amendment Protection for Search Engine Search Results
Google commissioned me to write this White Paper (???First Amendment Protection for Search Engine Search Results???), so I thought I???d pass it along. I wrote the paper as an advocate, and not as a disinterested academic, but I hope some of our readers…