Cloud Control
Digital Public Library of America wants to lend copyrighted works
The DPLA launched last month offering access to public-domain materials, but founders want to expand its purview
By Sarah Laskow May 2, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Last month, the Digital Public Library of America introduced its discovery portal to the Internet. It invited users in, to... More
And that’s the way it was: April 30, 1993
“WorldWideWeb” software enters the public domain
By Sarah Laskow Apr 30, 2013 at 06:50 AM
In 1993, computer users all over the world were still working out how best to share information over the Internet.... More
Google vs Brazil
Why Brazil heads up Google’s list of takedown requests
By Sarah Laskow Apr 29, 2013 at 06:55 AM
In 2009, Google started releasing some basic information twice a year about the takedown requests it receives from governments around... More
Google’s privacy policy scrutinized in Europe
A six-country investigation could have worldwide ramifications
By Alison Langley Apr 17, 2013 at 02:50 PM
Six European countries are stepping up the heat on Google to comply with the continent's strict privacy policies, a year... More
Making Internet politics personal
Activists put a face on acronyms like SOPA, PIPA, and CFAA
By Sarah Laskow Apr 16, 2013 at 06:50 AM
If you start looking for images to illustrate the fight last year over the Stop Online Piracy Act and the... More
Privacy and the right to know
Does the fact that information is publicly available mean news outlets should use it?
By Sarah Laskow Apr 10, 2013 at 02:50 PM
At the Deadline Club's panel on privacy and the right to know on Tuesday, the discussion began with guns and... More
Copyright’s new ‘new law’
Maria Pallante’s vision for copyright reform
By Sarah Laskow Apr 5, 2013 at 02:50 PM
In the world that Maria Pallante, the US Register of Copyrights, inhabits, people sometimes call the Copyright Act of 1976... More
Pity the nutgraf
The AP’s argument that ledes are the heart of its stories helped win a copyright case
By Sarah Laskow Mar 28, 2013 at 02:50 PM
When a reporter writes a story, what is the heart of the work? Is it this paragraph--the lede? This isn't... More
French antipiracy efforts unsuccessful
The French government started cracking down on illegal downloading, so users switched to illegal streaming
By Alison Langley Mar 27, 2013 at 02:50 PM
Hadopi--a wildly unpopular French antipiracy agency charged with seeking out illegal downloaders for prosecution--may be reorganized, assigned with new duties,... More
LSR to become German law
Search engines and news aggregators will have to pay to use others’ original content
By Alison Langley Mar 25, 2013 at 02:50 PM
The Leistungsschutzrecht, a controversial German proposal that would force for-profit companies to pay for using short snippets of news content,... More
How hard should it be for the government to read your email?
Harder than it is right now
By Sarah Laskow Mar 21, 2013 at 11:00 AM
In 1986, it would have been strange to keep an email for longer than six months. First of all, not... More
For mugshots, privacy v. public interest
Reporters are fighting recent restrictions on releasing federal mugshots
By Tracie Powell Mar 20, 2013 at 02:48 PM
Open records advocates, including the nonprofit Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, are working to get congressional support to... More
You buy it, you own it
The Supreme Court rules it’s legal to resell here a copyrighted item from abroad
By Sarah Laskow Mar 19, 2013 at 03:30 PM
Supap Kirtsaeng came to the United States from Thailand in 1997 to study at Cornell University and, later, earned his... More
The trouble with Aaron’s Law
The proposed law honoring the legacy of Aaron Swartz is trying to be too many things to too many people
By Sarah Laskow Mar 18, 2013 at 03:40 PM
On Friday, the American Library Association honored Aaron Swartz, the young Internet activist who committed suicide in January, with its... More
And that’s the way it was: March 7, 1994
The Supreme Court rules that parody is protected under fair use
By Sarah Laskow Mar 7, 2013 at 06:50 AM
On this day 19 years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that "Pretty Woman"--2 Live Crew's parody of the classic "Oh,... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
