Regulators irate at NY action against Standard Chartered. Fanservice. Skin Tight Stormtrooper Latex Dress. Myths And Realities About Fair Use. Here's the final excerpt from our Techdirt Book Club selection for May, Reclaiming Fair Use by Patricia Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi.
If you want to see the first excerpt, the second excerpt and the third excerpt go check them out. Also, Patricia will be joining us for a live Q&A discussion session about the book on Friday, June 8th at 1pm PT/4pm ET. The Generation Gap Is Back. Let’s Draft Our Kids. 7 Ways You're Hurting Your Daughter's Future. Google Sees Surge In Censorship Demands - Government - Policy & Regulation. Silencing speech isn't just for dictators; democracies are trying it also.
U.S. authorities, for example, asked Google to remove information 6,192 times in the second half of 2011. Google warns that government attempts to remove online information are increasing and that some of the governments making censorship requests are Western democracies. U.S. authorities, for example, made 6,192 requests seeking the removal of information from Google during the second half of 2011, the company said in a report published Sunday.
In the first half of 2011, the U.S. government made 757 such requests. In the U.K., authorities made 847 information removal requests during the second half of 2011, up from 333 during the first half of that year. Google began documenting government data requests in September 2010, when it first published its Transparency Report. Environmental Killings Report Reveals Startling Number Of Activist Deaths. A new report from international NGO Global Witness suggests that, in the past decade, 711 individuals have been killed while defending land and forest rights. 106 of these deaths allegedly came in 2011, with the number killed almost doubling over the past three years.
According to the report, these deaths include "those killed in targeted attacks and violent clashes as a result of protests, investigating or taking grievances against mining operations, logging operations, intensive agriculture including ranching, tree plantations, hydropower dams, urban development and poaching. " UC Davis pepper-spray officer fired despite being cleared by internal panel. The campus police officer who pepper-sprayed students during an Occupy protest at the University of California, Davis, has been fired despite being cleared of wrongdoing by an internal affairs investigation.
The university dismissed Lt John Pike on Tuesday, it has emerged, eight months after video footage of his use of the spray on seated students triggered worldwide indignation. The incident on November 18, in which Pike appeared to casually use the spray on students who posed little or no threat, was viewed millions of times on the internet and put huge pressure on the university.
What is the Libor scandal? How the interest-rate rigging should destroy the credibility of banks once and for all. Photo by Matthew Lloyd/Getty Images.
You may not be interested in the Libor—the London Interbank Offered Rate—but the Libor is interested in you. Even though the typical American is never going to seek an interbank loan in London, the number is used as a benchmark for a wide range of other financial instruments. Credit instruments with variable interest rates—private student loans, auto loans, adjustable-rate mortgages, credit cards, etc. —need to be indexed to some underlying marker of the overall cost of funds within the financial system. Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class. The Real Crash is dead ahead as 2008 is forgotten - Paul B. Farrell. By Paul B.
10 explosive bubbles that will kill capitalism - Paul B. Farrell. By Paul B.
Pharma Giant GSK to Pay $3B in Largest-Ever Health Care Fraud Case. <br/><a href=" US News</a> | <a href=" Business News</a> Copy Healthcare giant GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to an unprecedented $3 billion settlement with the U.S. government over allegations that the company advertised drugs for uses not approved by the Food and Drug Administration and then used lavish gifts to convince doctors to prescribe the drugs.
The multi-billion dollar settlement is the largest in U.S. history for alleged healthcare fraud, government officials said. In one instance, a drug was widely promoted to help treat depression even though the FDA had never tested it for such a use, according to the Department of Justice. Facebook. Facebook. Big leap in bio-engineering: scientists simulate an entire organism in software for the first time ever. Scientists at Stanford University and the J.
Epic fraud: How to succeed in science (without doing any) Running scientific experiments is, frankly, a pain in the ass. Mitt Romney and the Republican Party do not want to disclose basic truths for fear that someone will use these facts against them some day. Texas GOP Declares: "No More Teaching of 'Critical Thinking Skills' in Texas Public Schools" Texas dad kills man molesting daughter after hearing her scream. KHOU11 The pasture in which a man who allegedly molested a 4-year-old girl was beaten to death by the girl's father.
A Texas father who said he witnessed his 4-year-old daughter being molested beat her alleged attacker to death with repeated punches to the head, police said Monday.