Posts Tagged ‘Google’

Danah Boyd was the Opening Speaker for the 2010 SxSW Interactive Festival in Austin on Saturday. This clip includes about 8 minutes at the beginning of her talk, Making Sense of Privacy and Publicity. She posted the talk via apophenia, where she seeks comments.

Joseph Esposito identifies himself as a traditionalist on copyright (“during the term of copyright, copyright serves the interests of the producer”), but he challenges the assertion that Google is “a taker, not a maker” in Publishing in the Google Ecosystem (in The Scholarly Kitchen)

Google envisions a “device agnostic” reading experience for e-books, which means circumventing Amazon’s control of the e-book market with its Kindle reader. When Google invokes a “digital-book ecosystem” (love the way ecosystem is becoming the euphemism de jour), guess who would be the top of the food chain?
According to NPR:
[Google] announced recently that it has [...]

I had the pleasure of sharing an MiT6 session on Intellectual Property last Sunday with Keidra Chaney and Raizel Liebler, who presented a talk on The Intellectual Property of User-Generated Content. They publish a great blog called The Learned Fangirl, which has many affinities for Fair Use Lab.
See, for example, “#Amazonfail, the Google Books [...]

Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s chief executive, unveiled the Kindle 2 on Monday in New York. [Photo by Michael Appleton/NYT]
Amazon in Big Push for New Kindle Model NYT 020909
Amazon introduced several new features for the Kindle. A new text-to-speech function allows readers toswitch between reading words on the device and having the words read to them by [...]