MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'copyright'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 01:55:28 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5169510&cid=t_115397_86_f&fid=38272&url=http%3A%2F%2Forlinst.puflet.info%2FDepeche%2520Mode%2520-%25202009%2520-%2520Sounds%2520of%2520the%2520Universe%2F03%2520Wrong.mp3 Meanwhile you might want to listen to “Wrong” (Depeche Mode) Yesterday I screened my spam-folder. Between all male enhancement and lottery winner announcements, and phishing mails for my bank account, there was an invitation to peer review a paper in “SCIENCE JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY”. Such an invitation doesn’t belong in the spam folder, doesn’t it? Thus [...] (Source: Laika's MedLibLog) Laika's MedLibLog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5169510 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 20:26:53 +0100 5169510 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5077783&cid=t_115397_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F07%2F30%2Fculture-creativity-copyright%2F Situationist friend David Simon recently posted his forthcoming article “Culture, Creativity & Copyright” (Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, Vol. 28, 2011) on SSRN.  Here’s the abstract. * * * Recent literature in copyright law has attacked the traditional theory that economic incentives motivate people to create. Although the onslaught of criticism has come from different directions, it all shares a similar goal: to move copyright law in a direction that reflects actual creative processes and motivations. This Article adds to and diverts from these accounts, arguing that creativity may be a product of memes: units of culture, analogous to genes, that replicate by human imitation. A memetic theory of creativity focuses on memes as the reference point for ... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5077783 Sat, 30 Jul 2011 04:01:18 +0100 5077783 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5028154&cid=t_115397_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FNXNY2L9JqXs%2F By Jim HarperGiven enough time, a monkey sitting at a typewriter will type out the complete works of William Shakespeare. Believe it or not, it’s called the infinite monkey theorem. A thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters would cut the time in half … or something. But would the monkey hold the copyright? We may soon find out. Or at least we’ll be entertained by the tiff between TechDirt‘s Mike Masnick and a person claiming to represent the owner of a photograph taken by, yes, a monkey. The short answers are: 1) A photograph taken by a monkey probably isn’t copyrighted, and 2) if it were, displaying the photo in a discussion of its copyright status is probably fair use. The lesson is: many, many people don’t understand what the copyright laws are, or... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5028154 Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:08:04 +0100 5028154 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4952799&cid=t_115397_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FczRzl1vXuRE%2F By Ilya ShapiroIn 1920, the Supreme Court decided an obscure case concerning the implementation of a treaty between the United States and Canada regarding migratory birds. Tucked into Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’s five-page decision in Missouri v. Holland was a sentence that expressed a truly startling idea: that Congress can transcend its enumerated powers via its power to implement treaties. That is, although Congress has no enumerated power to pass, say, general criminal laws, if a ratified treaty with France demands that we pass such laws, then Congress’s power expands to allow for such legislation. Thus, foreign nations and the executive branch are given the power to change, almost at will, one of the most hotly debated and carefully crafted sections of the Constitution,... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4952799 Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:35:51 +0100 4952799 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4934114&cid=t_115397_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FsskDnGcrBaw%2F By Jim HarperIf you like innovation, and if you’re interested in intellectual property, you probably already know about the Committee on the Impact of Copyright Policy on Innovation in the Digital Era. That’s a group assembled by the National Academies to, well, analyze the impact of copyright policy on innovation in the digital era. Long-standing consensus holds that copyright, by creating artificial scarcity in information goods, allows creators to enjoy rewards from their creations sufficient to justify creating them. In other words, copyright’s incentive structure encourages creation and innovation, the end result being more and better information goods for the society to enjoy. Information technologies such as digitization and the Internet are rejiggering the balance... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4934114 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:44:22 +0100 4934114 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4450458&cid=t_115397_133_f&fid=37107&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Faspiewebnet%2F%7E3%2FhxfO4rxqHrw%2F So we recently published a story about a missing Autistic Woman and within five minutes received a crap copyright complaint from a TV Station.  Duncan Phenix contacted me saying that a story about Kayla Burgess a missing woman with Autism was a copyright violation of an article from his news station. To: Webmaster From: Duncan Phenix dphenix@kfvs12.com [...] (Source: AspieWeb.net) AspieWeb.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4450458 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:29:16 +0100 4450458 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4220393&cid=t_115397_133_f&fid=37107&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Faspiewebnet%2F%7E3%2FroADAha9nlo%2F Seeing as Joe Meld has decided to abuse the DMCA process and file crap complaints on fair use I have made a decision with Zachary’s support. Im going to take a screencapture from a Law and Order television show he played in and use that to illustrate the news story under fair use. That way [...] (Source: AspieWeb.net) AspieWeb.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4220393 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 12:05:52 +0100 4220393 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4200687&cid=t_115397_133_f&fid=37107&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Faspiewebnet%2F%7E3%2FwSdfcv8xc0I%2F As some of you know Joe Mele is upset that I used his picture in a story and has been threatening me with a lawsuit because of it as well as accusing me of raping a sister I don’t have.  He’s doing this to cover up his defense of an admitted person who gets off [...] (Source: AspieWeb.net) AspieWeb.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4200687 Thu, 25 Nov 2010 04:23:15 +0100 4200687 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4027151&cid=t_115397_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FVxq4Zjb-mkk%2F By Ilya ShapiroToday is the first Monday in October, the traditional start of the Supreme Court term.  While we have yet to see as many blockbuster constitutional cases on the docket as we did last term—which, despite the high profile 5-4 splits in McDonald v. Chicago and Citizens United actually produced fewer dissents than any in recent memory—we do look forward to: Two big free speech challenges, one over a statute prohibiting the sale of violent video games to minors, another the offensive protesting of a fallen soldier’s funeral; An Establishment Clause lawsuit against Arizona’s tax credit for private tuition funds (an alternative to educational voucher programs); Regulatory federalism (or “preemption”) cases involving: safety standards for seatbelts; an Arizona statute... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4027151 Mon, 04 Oct 2010 11:06:21 +0100 4027151 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3880824&cid=t_115397_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FwkMIVQGEgkE%2F Cato adjunct scholar David Post writes on the Volokh Conspiracy blog about the sticky copyright wicket facing some impressive jazz recordings from the 30s and 40s. I get pretty excited . . . when I read that the collection also contains live performances of a Goodman-Wilson duet on “Lady Be Good” (with Wilson playing harpsichord!), Lester Young and Herschel Evans on “Tea for Two,” Charlie Christian playing electric guitar with the Goodman sextet in a 1939 performance of “Shivers,” the Count Basie and Duke Elllington bands’ performances at the 1938 “Carnival of Swing” on Randalls Island, . . . all previously unreleased. Oh, lordy — you’ve got to be kidding me! And listening to the excerpts from the recordings here, if anything, makes me even more delirious — this is ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3880824 Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:28:52 +0100 3880824 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3662671&cid=t_115397_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fkeeping-patients-quiet%2F2010.06.14 Some things are just part of the problem in healthcare. The company Medical Justice is one such thing. I’ve written about them before. Medical Justice sees the medical malpractice crisis and devised a solution: Muzzle the patients. It’s as misguided as it is ridiculous. Medical Justice says doctors need to stop their patients from saying bad things about them. They charge doctors hundreds — even thousands — of dollars a year to help do this. Under one of their programs, they give doctors contracts to use with their patients. The doctor tells the patient that they must agree to the terms of the contract before the doctor agrees to see them.  Okay, so there are lots of forms that patients need to sign when they go to the doctor. What makes these so different? (more…) ... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3662671 Mon, 14 Jun 2010 23:00:33 +0100 3662671 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3556073&cid=t_115397_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FH8aQYegPHXs%2F By Jim HarperIn their 2006 Cato Policy Analysis, “Amateur-to-Amateur: The Rise of a New Creative Culture,” Gregory Lastowka and Dan Hunter wrote about how the functions that make up the creative cycle—creation, selection, production, dissemination, promotion, sale, and use of expressive content—are undergoing revolutionary decentralization and disintermediation. The only thing professional in the clip below was the writing of the song. It deserves its credit, but the performance itself, production of the video, its selection, dissemination, and promotion (Twitter users, YouTube) are all amateur or amateur supported by a professionally managed, ad-supported platform. Watch it a second time to take in the reactions of the girls sitting in front of the map. If you lik... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3556073 Wed, 12 May 2010 12:40:07 +0100 3556073 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3504899&cid=t_115397_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FUnnOx0SvpiU%2F By Jim HarperThe “Cyber Privacy Act”? No it ain’t! Michigan Representative Thaddeus McCotter (R) has introduced a bill to create a take-down regime for personal information akin to the widely abused DMCA process. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act established a system where copyright holders could as a practical matter force content off the Internet simply by requesting it. McCotter’s proposal would similarly regulate every Internet site that has a comment section. He thinks it’s going to protect privacy, but he’s sorely mistaken. Its passage would undermine privacy and limit free speech. I’ll take you through how McCotter’s gotten it wrong. The operative language of H.R. 5108 is: Any Internet website that makes available to the public pers... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3504899 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:05:58 +0100 3504899 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3475805&cid=t_115397_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FoTDJpcnw8oI%2F This article reviews his contributions to technology related areas of law. Outline of Article: 1. Summary. 2. Copyright Cases. 3. State Immunity in IPR Cases. 4. Patent Cases. 5. Communications Cases. 6. Internet Speech Cases. 7. Privacy Cases. 8. Other Cases. 1. Summary. Justice Stevens wrote the majority opinion in the 1984 landmark Sony Betamax case. It was a 5-4 opinion. He joined in the unanimous 2005 opinion in MGM v. Grokster, regarding vicarious copyright infringement by the distributors of peer to peer systems. He wrote a long and vigorous dissent in Eldred, the 7-2 case regarding the Copyright Term Extension Act. Justice Stevens led the fight against extending sovereign immunity to states for violation of, among other things, intellectual property laws. He dissented from the outs... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3475805 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:35:49 +0100 3475805 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3456669&cid=t_115397_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FnkONjUE--qc%2F By Timothy B. LeeI’m saddened to hear of the retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens. Whatever you might say about his jurisprudence in other areas, one place where Justice Stevens really shined was in his defense of high-tech freedom. Justice Stevens wrote the majority opinion in some of the most important high-tech cases of the last four decades. In other cases, he wrote important (and in some cases prescient) dissents. Through it all, he was a consistent voice for freedom of expression and the freedom to innovate. His accomplishments include: Free speech: Justice Stevens wrote the majority decision in ACLU v. Reno, the decision that struck down the infamous Communications Decency Act and clearly established that the First Amendment applies to the Internet. In the 13 years since t... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3456669 Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:57:19 +0100 3456669 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3036068&cid=t_115397_180_f&fid=38613&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stevepavlina.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F11%2Fproperty-ownership%2F People often ask me for my thoughts on property ownership, both with respect to physical property and intellectual property. I feel inspired to write about this topic this morning, so I’ll share some of those thoughts with you now. Do I think property ownership is a good thing, or is it an evil scourge? For me, property ownership is about responsibility and sharing, not about control and security. If you think that can truly own something, you’re mistaken. Your ownership of anything in the physical world is guaranteed to end eventually, either through loss or death. So how can you really own anything if your ownership will be taken away? You’re not really the owner of anything. You’re simply a temporary steward. As a steward of your property, you’re responsibl... Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3036068 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:18:50 +0100 3036068 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2894565&cid=t_115397_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F10%2F15%2Fminding-the-media-ralph-lauren-sinks-lower-and-lower%2F Model Filippa Hamilton — 5′10″ and 120 pounds — recently was fired from Ralph Lauren for being fat. According to Hamilton, who had worked for the designer since 2002, “they fired me because they said I was overweight and I couldn’t fit in their clothes anymore.” After initially picking my jaw up off the floor, I wondered, “Should we really be flabbergasted?” Unfortunately, most of us are well aware of the fashion industry’s skewed standards. Just recently fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld had this to say after finding out that the German magazine, Brigitte was going to use “real women” instead of models: No one wants to see curvy women. You’ve got fat mothers with their bags of chips sitting in front of the television and saying thin models... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2894565 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:09:06 +0100 2894565 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2803880&cid=t_115397_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F-keJ5MwQEeo%2F Via James Grimmelmann, the Washington Legal Foundation, a group known for its defense of property rights, filed an objection to the Google book deal earlier this month focusing on concerns related to those I raised in my posts earlier this week. WLF points out that the Supreme Court has mandated that plaintiffs seeking to certify a class must make a diligent effort to notify all affected class members. According to the high court’s Shutts decision, this effort must include—at a minimum—sending a letter to every identifiable member of the class. In this case, this would mean sending a letter to every address in the US Copyright Office’s database of authors. WLF questions whether this was done; the foundation reports that it never received notification related to any of the b... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2803880 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:17:51 +0100 2803880 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2793136&cid=t_115397_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FwDbkAurfUmk%2F Five years ago, Google began scanning millions of books for inclusion in what eventually became Google Book Search. Google carefully designed the service to stay within the boundaries of copyright’s fair use provisions, at least as Google interpreted them. Still, some authors and publishers objected, and in 2005 they filed a lawsuit accusing Google of copyright infringement. The lawsuit dragged on for more than three years. Finally, in 2008, the parties announced a settlement of the lawsuit. Its text runs for 140 pages, not counting a secret termination clause available only to Google and its adversaries. The deadline for comments on the settlement was earlier this month, and on October 7 a federal judge must decide whether to approve or reject the settlement. I was (and still am) fi... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2793136 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:07:12 +0100 2793136 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2349125&cid=t_115397_125_f&fid=36046&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdentistrylibrary.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F04%2Fdemystifying-copyright.html There are many myths about copyright and this session aims to demystify some of these by giving you practical, up-to-date information about the major copyright issues. You will learn how you to maximise your use of copyright material without infringing the rights of others.Topics will include:· Overview of copyright essentials · University policies and procedures · Using film, video, TV programs and other media · Impact of technology on copyrightTarget AudienceNew staff involved in teaching or research, staff who have a role in creating websites and learning resources and anyone who is confused about copyright and wants to improve their awareness of the issues.PresenterMs Kate Sexton, Director, Copyright ServicesDate and timeThursday, 16th July 9.00am - 10.30amVenueGroun... DentistryLibrary@Sydney blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2349125 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:29:00 +0100 2349125 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2190482&cid=t_115397_125_f&fid=34820&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dentalblogs.com%2Farchives%2Fadministrator%2Fknow-what-youre-getting-into%2F Twitter, Facebook, YouTube. Social networking online is a big hit. Like many small businesses, you may use social networking forums for marketing and promotions. Keep in mind, the Internet is a relatively new innovation. Laws are still being created to govern just about everything that happens online. Be sure that you know what you’re getting into before you post! Just yesterday, TheConsumerist.com warned that Facebook’s terms of service have changed. Now, even if you cancel your Facebook account, any content you posted there is free game for Facebook to use whenever and wherever they deem fit. See the article here. (Source: dental blog for dentists about dentistry) dental blog for dentists about dentistry blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2190482 Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:21:58 +0100 2190482 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2117200&cid=t_115397_115_f&fid=37661&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnottotallyrad.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F01%2Fwhat-would-woody-say.html In a further ironic twist, a video clip of Pete Seeger singing This Land is Your Land is now back on YouTube, courtesy of a German news channel. Thanks, N24!What Would Woody Say about this? Here's a copyright warning he included on his recordings in the early 40's.This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don’t give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that’s all we wanted to do.(via John Hodgman) (Source: Not Totally Rad) Not Totally Rad blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2117200 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:24:00 +0100 2117200 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2117201&cid=t_115397_115_f&fid=37661&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnottotallyrad.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F01%2Fthis-land-is-our-land.html The video clip I linked to yesterday of Pete Seeger singing "This Land is Your Land" on the Capitol Mall has since been removed from YouTube by HBO, who claims copyright for the broadcast.In that clip, Pete sang the following verse:There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me;Sign was painted, it said private property;But on the back side it didn't say nothing;That side was made for you and me.Apparently, the irony of this is completely lost on HBO...(via John Hodgman) (Source: Not Totally Rad) Not Totally Rad blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2117201 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:41:00 +0100 2117201 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2096164&cid=t_115397_133_f&fid=37107&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Faspieweb%2F%7E3%2Ft8swi2-9-x8%2F Wrongplanet.net’s host INetU has responded favorably to my DMCA takedown request I filed two days ago.  At this point legally INetU is instructing Alex Plank to remove the offending materials from his website in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in a reasonable time.  Most courts see a reasonable time to be 24 hours.   [...] This is an excerpt from an article on AspieWeb.net, A blog writen by an Autistic Blogger. (Source: AspieWeb.net) AspieWeb.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2096164 Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:04:23 +0100 2096164 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2090428&cid=t_115397_133_f&fid=37107&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Faspieweb%2F%7E3%2FcKgheKi3CLk%2F This morning I made a move to enforce my intellectual property rights after users at wrongplanet.net have been copying and pasting entire paragraphs of content from AspieWeb.net onto their forums.  Wrongplanet’s owner Alex Plank, and their host iNetU Managed Hosting were served with DCMA Takedown Requests today. What is a DCMA Takedown Request? A Digital Millennium Copyright [...] This is an excerpt from an article on AspieWeb.net, A blog writen by an Autistic Blogger. (Source: AspieWeb.net) AspieWeb.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2090428 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:01:00 +0100 2090428 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2017463&cid=t_115397_125_f&fid=34820&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dentalblogs.com%2Farchives%2Fadministrator%2Fwhat-dentists-need-to-know-about-copyright-trademarks-on-dental-websites%2F If you have a dental website or blog, you are responsible and will be held legally accountable for copyright or trademark infringement on your site. You need to know the basics to keep yourself out of trouble. Problem is, the Internet is a relatively new medium. “When it comes to trademark use on the Internet, the law is muddled,” according to an article in WebsiteMagazine.com (November2008). Everyone is learning by trial and error. Some things are black and white, though. If you don’t want to receive a faxed invoice for illegal usage of an image on your website, you need to be informed. The repercussions of posting content that’s not your own or misusing trademarks can involve thousands upon thousands of dollars in fines - or even jail time. On top of this, dentist... dental blog for dentists about dentistry blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2017463 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:45:56 +0100 2017463 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1993573&cid=t_115397_88_f&fid=38129&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsandnsurf.medbrains.net%2F2008%2F11%2Fevolution-and-revolution%2F With the era of open source, micro-blogging, stumbling and tweeting now upon us - I, as an altruistic educator, researcher and medical professional bathe in the warm surge of ‘idealistic’ sharing’ that washes over me…but I have questions…so many questions… What is the future/role of major publishing companies in light of open access; self-publishing and copyright [...] (Source: Life in the Fast Lane) Life in the Fast Lane blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1993573 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:09:39 +0100 1993573 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1947117&cid=t_115397_132_f&fid=35024&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FBlindscientist%2F%7E3%2Fc7vO66IgIzU%2F There’s a limit to everything, and when a friend is involved, things get serious. Nils Reinton posted a link on FriendFeed of a company (?!?) in Singapore using a logo that looks very similar to Ricardo Vidal’s logo for the DNA Network. The original is here and the crooks are here. Compare. (Source: Blind.Scientist) Blind.Scientist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1947117 Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:35:29 +0100 1947117 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1889039&cid=t_115397_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2Fha8DZLflSkI%2F Legislation to provide for insurance coverage for autism treatment has been introduced, and even passed, in many states including my own state of New Jersey; here’s a number of previous posts on this topic. An Associated Press article quotes J.P. Wieske, a lobbyist for an insurance coalition, as saying that “‘This is the hottest trend in mandates we’ve seen in a long time…..It’s hard to fight them.’” Notable in the Associated Press is mention of families with older children—-11, 12 (same age as my son) who are using ABA therapy. It’s noted that, while there are studies arguing for the benefits of ABA therapy in younger children, research supporting its efficacy for older children are “sparse.” Some states require beha... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1889039 Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:10:42 +0100 1889039 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1886445&cid=t_115397_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FP1bgW0LvnGY%2F Back in the summer, I noted that Charlie had discovered the wonders of YouTube, when he and I found that a number of the Barney videos he used to watch, ask to see a thousand times over, and get so upset and over-stimulated over that he’d knock his head on the floor when we turned one on—-that many of these could be found posted on YouTube. For the past two months, he’s been typing in “Barney” and “school” or “good day good night” and sitting on his knees to watch the old familiar scenes. It was in mid-September that he discovered “Let’s Play School” and that’s been the main one he watched, as I realized just how deeply I have indeed memorized many a Barney song (”butterfly, butterfly, fly fly away”&#... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1886445 Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:10:55 +0100 1886445 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1546976&cid=t_115397_147_f&fid=35750&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FHealthCareVox%2F%7E3%2F320638605%2Fthe_battle_over_online_content.html Earlier this month, the blogosphere – and to a lesser extent the Twittersphere – was blazing with news that the Associated Press was pressing bloggers to take down content it felt was in violation of copyright law.  Not only were bloggers annoyed that the Associated Press made this request, but they contended that AP routinely cribbed content from bloggers, but failed to credit them for their work. The Associated Press soon backed down, but the AP-blogosphere flap is only a taste of what some are saying will be a war between producers of user-generated content and the mainstream media.  According to BusinessWeek: “The dustup between the AP and bloggers was just an early skirmish in what's likely to become a protracted war over how and where media content is ... HealthCareVox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1546976 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:13:37 +0100 1546976 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1512271&cid=t_115397_85_f&fid=36194&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftesstermulo.com%2F2008%2F06%2F12%2Fis-traditional-media-losing-its-ethics%2F Even if there are still many people who’d blankly stare at the mention of the word “blog”, it is undeniable that the blogging phenomenon has pervaded the consciousness of the average people, most especially through traditional media. Newspapers like Manila Bulletin and online information websites like Blog Addicts of You have featured bloggers and their works. And certainly, some journalists have also become bloggers. It seemed that traditional media have accepted and acknowledged the value of blogging in this Information Age. Or maybe not. Maybe traditional media is in it for a love-and-hate relationship with blogging. In several news episodes, mostly touching on the Brian Gorrell phenomenon, reporters often cautioned about readily believing information that can be found... Prudence and Madness blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1512271 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:33:36 +0100 1512271 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1373166&cid=t_115397_86_f&fid=34468&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbrowsing.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F04%2Fharry-potter-and-copyright-court-case.html Lots of coverage of this in the press today - JK Rowling in court in New York to try to stop the publication of an unofficial Encyclopaedia about the books. I'm interested in the fact that the material is already available on a website, and that according to BBC Newsround, Rowling has used the site and found it useful - it appears to have an endorsement from her on the home page. Interesting that the website is not viewed as a threat, or breach of copyright, but that the book is.One place in the press is here: http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2273675,00.html (Source: Browsing) Browsing blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1373166 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:06:00 +0100 1373166 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1288690&cid=t_115397_107_f&fid=36698&url=http%3A%2F%2Fminingdrugs.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F03%2Fcas-numbers-are-not-public-domain-are.html "Work created before the existence of copyright and patent laws also form part of the public domain. The Bible and the inventions of Archimedes are in the public domain. However, copyright may exist in translations or new formulations of this work." [Wikipedia]As posted by Tony is the Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) discouraging using their CAS services for assigning correct CAS numbers to structures for any third party database. Wikipedia is a source of structures, which is public domain due to its GNU FDL. Still, this does not imply that any translation of structures, e.g. CAS numbers, are in the public domain, too. Honestly, this raises a serious problem for curating CAS numbers on Wikipedia and this raises indeed the question, if they should not be dropped from Wikipedia, and any other... Mining Drug Space blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1288690 Sat, 08 Mar 2008 09:00:00 +0100 1288690 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1246685&cid=t_115397_132_f&fid=35624&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsuicyte.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F02%2F21%2Fcui-bono%2F I really shouldn’t write a blog posting right now, but rather work on my slides for an upcoming conference. Alas, working on slides is not my favorite occupation, and now I find myself pondering questions like “Is inviting me for talking at a conference a service for me or for the audience?”. A strange question to ask, maybe (unless you have heard one of my previous talks and thus can safely discard the idea that it might be to the benefit of the audience). Here is what made me think about this problem in the first place: On previous occasions (e.g. in my blog, but also in the discussion of other people’s blogs) I have complained about software and web servers that are free to use for academics, but which charge an (often horrendous) amount of money if you happen to... Suicyte Notes blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1246685 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:16:34 +0100 1246685 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1192892&cid=t_115397_154_f&fid=35773&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.openmedicine.ca%2Fnode%2F133 Canada’s copyright law is byzantine, out of touch and does not account for the various producers of information in the digital age. To place Canada more competitively in the world economy, copyright reform in this country must strike a balance between allowing for open access (and shorter copyright periods), upholding users’ rights and permitting protections for intellectual properties. Some critics and open access advocates argue that users’ rights must not be abrogated in the new digital environment. Here are the four (4) main principles upheld by Canadian academic libraries: 1. Fair dealing Fair dealing is critical to a balanced and fair copyright regime. Copyright law reform must not limit or narrow fair dealing. 2. Damages and fair dealing New laws must ensure tha... Open Medicine Blog - blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1192892 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:12:23 +0100 1192892 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1166447&cid=t_115397_154_f&fid=35773&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.openmedicine.ca%2Fnode%2F130 In the marketplace of ideas, issues of copyright seem especially salient in the information age. Any laws restricting the free flow of information in a digital age need to be sorted out, or the economic welfare of our country suffers. Michael Geist, arguably Canada's most lucid thinker on this issue, has written some excellent posts recently about copyright and the issues that arise from it, such as fair dealing. (see here.) I cannot speak for others at Open Medicine, but I advocate for a world of open access to medical information with as few copyright restrictions as possible. Imagine how far and wide medical ideas could be disseminated given a system based on sharing and adding to the collective knowledge of the planet. Do you have any idea how long it takes for copyright to move in... Open Medicine Blog - blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1166447 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:16:48 +0100 1166447 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1065040&cid=t_115397_105_f&fid=36673&url=http%3A%2F%2Fweb2097.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F12%2Fmedicine-20-copyright-or-creative.html A AWiki is an useful tool in the Web 2.0 environment. We can use it to collaborate with our colleagues to create knowledge online. Some days ago I read a post about Wiserwiki, a new project launched by Elsevier. This is not the only medical wiki that exists. Actually exists a long list of medical wikis. What is different with this wiki is the fact that the information created here for the medical community belongs to the publisher that owns the wiki. It means that if you want to use the information that exist in this wiki, you have to ask permission to the owner in order to do that. This fact is not new, it is how the industry of information has been working since the invention of copyright. When we write a medical article, we sent our work to a medical journal. They review it, and if they... Web 2.0 and Medicine blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1065040 Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:41:00 +0100 1065040 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=872190&cid=t_115397_134_f&fid=35137&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdiabetesupdate.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F09%2Finvasion-of-blog-stealers.html Some readers have expressed concern about the copyright violation notice I went and stuck on the bottom of my last ten posts. Here's the reason it's there. Some bottom feeding web site hosted in a Far Eastern country has set up something that sucks in other people's blog postings and republishes them as if they were the blogger's own content. The point of all this appears to be to make money off the many Google Ads that top the page. When I checked my blog in Technorati recently, I saw dozens of my blog posts being copied in full this way by one site with the only clue as to where they came from buried in very fine print. Since these weasels seem to strip content on a daily basis, I figured I'd include the copyright violation note so that it would appear on their scum sucking site.I love b... Diabetes Update blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=872190 Fri, 14 Sep 2007 22:13:00 +0100 872190 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1186502&cid=t_115397_165_f&fid=36770&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmetaot.com%2Fblogs%2F%255Buser%255D Over the last year I have have been told of something disturbing by two students. One was a physiotherapy student that told me that students from her course had to sign over the publication rights of their work to their universities when they submitted their dissertations and the other was an occupational therapy student that told me she had to name her project supervisor as a co-author. Personally I think this may be unethical. None of my tutors ever helped me get published (I actually found some quite discouraging) and I would not want them riding on my back. Can the Higher Education Quality Assurance Agency discipline universities or the Health Professions Council discipline tutors that take credit for work they have not done (work their students did)? Do you think we should get somethi... meta-ot blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1186502 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:49:19 +0100 1186502 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=864399&cid=t_115397_87_f&fid=36069&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffrankiespeakingfrankly.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F09%2Fcopywriting-rss-feeds.html Whilst 'feed fishing' for MedWorm, I came across several cancer blogs that I would have liked to add to the cancer category on MedWorm, but was saddened to see the following copywrite notice at the bottom of the feed items:Copyright © 2007 (blog title removed) This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact legal@monica.healthblogs.org so we can take legal action immediately.Legal action immediately - ouch - some people just love their lawyers don't they? So I didn't add those feeds. I wonder if the cancer patients writing those blogs realise that their feeds are now being left out? Of course I respect that an individual may want their feed remov... Frankie Speaking Frankly blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=864399 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:38:00 +0100 864399 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1035028&cid=t_115397_105_f&fid=36673&url=http%3A%2F%2Fweb2097.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F05%2Flawrence-lessig-at-google.html I think that to have a better idea of the changes the Web 2.0 is causing, we have to learn some principles like creative commons, collaboration, sharing, etc. By the moment, the only way you can learn those things is using the internet, because I do not see that a politic of education exists with respect to these topics, while a complete machinery to teach about copyright does. I am almost two years in the United States and I am taking classes at a Community College, and something they teach to you in each class is, "no plagiarism" . If you take an English class you will listen about copyright almost in any class, and all the books you use repeat the same thing. But nobody talks about principles like Creative Commons, collaboration, sharing, etc. That is the reason today I post this video ... Web 2.0 and Medicine blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1035028 Fri, 04 May 2007 13:34:00 +0100 1035028 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=571405&cid=t_115397_132_f&fid=35011&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fmndoci%2F%7E3%2F112166076%2F Wiley certainly seems to have (via Pedro) and sent a cease & desist letter to Shelley Batts for using a table and graphs from a recent paper (used in support of a blog post). Shelley did comply, regenerating the graphics in excel. I don’t have to tell you where I stand on this issue. She was not reproducing the article in it’s entirety, but rather talking about science with supporting information (and just a little) from a paper, not unlike a scientist giving a talk at a conference. It’s just a different medium. Somehow I feel that the publishing industry just doesn’t get it. A paper in a journal is not about archival. It’s about generating discussion. It’s another reason I am very leery of using figures from journals when the policies are unclear or... business|bytes|genes|molecules blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=571405 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:36:14 +0100 571405