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26 Jul 2010 21:11

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Tech: The Library of Congress made iPhone jailbreakers’ collective days

  • yes They’re now allowing people to legally jailbreak their spiffy phones without fear of retribution. iPhone users win.
  • no That doesn’t mean Apple has to make it easy for you to jailbreak it. They can still void your warranty.
  • yes They’ve also made cracking and ripping DVDs totally legal, and expanded unlocking rights. source
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14 Apr 2010 11:47

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Tech: The Library of Congress thinks tweets are really important

  • Library to acquire ENTIRE Twitter archive — ALL public tweets, ever, since March 2006! Details to follow.
  • A tweet from @libraryofcongress • Which sounds absolutely awesome. Could you imagine? Twitter getting archived into the annals of history? The sandwich you ate? All the malware links? The Bieber-bombings we’ve seen over the last month or two? The FourSquare mayoral races? Sign us up! source
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26 Apr 2009 23:54

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U.S.: Barbara A. Ringer, the queen of fair use in copyright

  • The basic human rights of individual authors throughout the world are being sacrificed more and more on the altar of … the technological revolution.
  • Barbara A. Ringer • In a 1975 speech discussing the rights of authors in the use of content. It’s crazy, by the way, because it seems her comments would be even more relevant now than they were 34 years ago. Ringer, by the way, is the author behind the Copyright Act of 1976, which both gave copyright-holders more rights in retaining copyright and established the very fair use that allows us to quote this article from The Washington Post. She’s kind of our hero, and makes the Library of Congress seem vaguely awesome. • source
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