Tag Archives: Law & Policy

Furl – Terms of Service

Just got a note from Furl urging me to check out their new Terms of Service. They are but the conduit, I see, and if I Furl copyrighted material, it’s my fault. That didn’t work real well for Napster, though, did it. And I suspect that Furl contains just as many copyrighted webpages. Luckily, though, […]
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Hard sell and/or assault

One of the students in my graduate class has posted an experience she had at the local mall, in which a salesperson (male) physically grabbed her and pulled her somewhere. In my reading, this could easily be seen as assault: no one touches someone’s face uninvited. She wonders why she was not more active in […]
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Where will you be on 9/11?

I will be in Bloomington, Indiana. But if you are here in Buffalo, you may be wondering how you can hook up with events tied into the September Project. Unfortunately, despite some lobbying on my part, neither the public libraries nor the UB libraries decided to participate. However, the Medaille College Library is linked on […]
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Incitement

I wonder how far the Alabama ban extends.
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