It isn’t long but you have to read this. It’s the most encouraging thing I’ve seen in a while. EFF: DeepLinks And when Stevens asked whether with the audio flag in place he would be able to record from the radio and put the shows onto his iPod: that’s when the RIAA’s Mitch Bainwol really [...]

OpenDOAR OpenDOAR (the Directory of Open Repositories) has officially launched its list of OA archives and repositories.

Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology: 5 Factors for User Centered Services Words to live by.

‘Stanford On ITunes’ Is For Everybody – Forbes.com In an unprecedented move, Stanford University is collaborating with Apple Computer to allow public access a wide range of lectures, speeches, debates and other university content through iTunes. No need to pay the $31,200 tuition. No need to live on campus. No need even to be a [...]

Boing Boing: A-Hole bill would make a secret technology into the law of the land If the controversial Analog Hole bill makes it into law, US technologists will have to obey a law whose most important details are a trade-secret. … The idea is that any time you attempted to make a digital recording, your [...]

Open Access News Hippocrates is a new, free medical search engine specializing in deep-web content intelligible to lay readers. For more details, see this story about it from today’s issue of The Hindu. I tried it and was impressed by the results.

Boing Boing: Broadcast Flag is back, this time it covers iPods and PSPs, too Under the DCPA proposal, digital media technologies would be restricted to using technologies that had been certified by the FCC as being not unduly disruptive to entertainment industry business-models. Many comments, none of them suitable for publication.

Open Access News DRM should respect the public domain. That means [DRM on copyrighted works] should automatically expire, leaving the content freely accessible, on the date when the work enters the public domain….</blockquote

Can video iPod lead to DMCA reform? | Perspectives | CNET News.com In 1998, politicians bowed to pressure from the entertainment industry and voted overwhelmingly for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Part of that law made it a federal offense to sell or distribute software that can rip DVDs. In other words, believe it or [...]

James Governor’s MonkChips: What about My Copy Rights? Towards a declaration of digital independence. By paying an artist or rights holder we must have some rights in turn.</blockquote