June 2011
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Life sentence for Bahraini blogger
Dr. Abduljalil Al-Singace has been imprisoned for life for the crime of blogging views contrary to that of the Bahraini government. This sad event makes abundantly clear the dangers of speaking out for Bahrainis. Read more at ReadWriteWeb. Posted via email from Mad With Glee | Comment »
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Fair use blues: Too expensive to fight for your...
Original photo © Jay Maisel. Low-resolution images used for critical commentary qualifies as fair use. (Usually! Sometimes!) Kind of Bloop is a chiptune tribute to Kind of Blue by Waxy. All the musical samples on the album were very carefully cleared but the use of the album cover was not. Waxy’s assumption, that was probably correct, was that the transformative nature of his image...
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News organisations don't like it when we don't...
via techdirt.com Stefanie Gordon took a striking picture of Space Shuttle Endeavour’s recent launch from an aeroplane window. When the plane landed she uploaded the image to Twitpic, tweeted it and (as far as she was concerned) that was that. It’s a great image and several news organisations started to use the image to illustrate their coverage of Endeavour’s last outing. ...