MercuryNews.com 07/16/2005 Court Was Correct About Reporters Boy Scouts don t hide behind ``don t tell who told you if a good deed is what Yet, as the media have reported, hidden cameras have been located nearly http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/opinion/12148980.htm
BOOKFORUM | Feb/mar 2005 As the price of digital video cameras and editing software plummets, Fair useis a great solution, but for it to have any real impact on our culture we http://www.bookforum.com/boynton.html
Extractions: Who owns the words you're reading right now? if you're holding a copy of Bookforum Bookforum Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity . "Yet the current debate has this turned around. We have become so concerned with protecting the instrument that we are losing sight of the value." But if we have fallen into what New York University communications professor Siva Vaidhyanathan calls "the property-talk trap," it has had the unintended effect of mobilizing citizens by demonstrating the stake we all have in the debate over how intellectual property should be considered. Once an arcane part of the American legal system, intellectual property law is now at the center of major disputes in the arts, sciences, and politics. People are increasingly aware of the role intellectual property plays in their everyday lives; they bump up against it every time they discover they can't print a passage from an e-book or transfer a song from their computer to their iPod. These days, it is not uncommon to hear people casually conversing about legal concepts like "fair use" and the "first sale doctrine." In December 2004, Google announced "Google Print," a project to bring millions of easily searchable, digitized books to the Internet. The project, which has already begun and may take a decade to complete, will further heighten awareness of our vexed relationship to intellectual property. After digitizing the entire holdings of Stanford and the University of Michigan libraries (as well as sections of the libraries of Harvard, Oxford and the New York Public Library), Google Print will
Extractions: September 18, 2005 2:30 PM ET I was scanning across the news channels Friday night, and I came to CNN's Aaron Brown making this statement FOREMAN: (voice-over): It may be more important to understand the limits of government help. FALKENRATH: People thought with all this attention to first responders and to incident management at the federal level that the federal government was really going to be able to respond instantaneously or very rapidly to a disaster. And that's just not the case. FOREMAN: So the new leader of FEMA is saying get ready. Have water, food, blankets, radios, flashlights, medicine. He says it's not paranoia to be prepared. It's simple prudence. Others put it more bluntly for cities and their citizens. RANDALL LARSEN, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: In the first 72 to 96 hours after a big disaster, you're probably going to be on your own. FOREMAN: Just like so many in Katrina's terrible wake. Tom Foreman, CNN, Washington. (END VIDEOTAPE)
BBC Inside Out - Mobile Speed Cameras We look at how accurate current laser speed cameras are. The court foundthere were discrepancies in the speed gun evidence used against him. http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/southwest/series7/speed-cameras.shtml
Extractions: Inside Out - South West: Monday February 28, 2005 Mobile speed guns are gaining in popularity with the police Mobile speed cameras are increasingly being used by the police to enforce speed limits, but how accurate are they? We look at these cameras and see if their claims of accuracy are themselves accurate. A recent report by the RAC shows that nearly two-thirds of all drivers admit breaking the speed limit on a 30mph roads. It's not surprising then that the amount of speeding tickets we are all getting are on the increase. But we discover that some of the equipment used by the police may not be as reliable as they like to think. In the last year the numbers of mobile speed cameras hidden on motorcycle, police van and cars have risen by more than a third. That means there are just under 3,500 mobile speed units in the country.
Stories.htm Hidden cameras thoughts from the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation 21 stories on a court injunction to stop the paper s reporting, http://www.unh.edu/journalism/797.htm
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