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Monday, June 02, 2003 |
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Dave: I got a tour of the NY Times news room today from Martin Nisenholtz the CEO of NY Times Digital, and Michael Oreskes, Assistant Managing Editor for Electronic News. We also concluded our discussion about the Times archive, we found a good compromise, the archive will remain open to people who link from weblogs, but they will keep the toll booth up for others. We have to hammer out a final statement, which I expect to have in a few days. In a few minutes I'm going to have pictures of the Times newsroom, and Times Square and the subway and some pics taken at a hike on Jamaica Bay this morning. [Scripting News]
10:58:48 PM 
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Court Looms After FCC Decides. If the Federal Communications Commission votes as expected on Monday to ease restrictions on media ownership, the arbiter will be the courts. Because nobody's getting what they want, industry experts agree challenges are bound to come. [Wired News]
4:07:14 PM
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Industrial evolution. One of five industries in the throes of a tech metamorphosis, the life sciences field is hoping information technology can help it deal with an explosion of data and a rush for new pharmaceuticals. [CNET News.com]
4:05:47 PM
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Doc, checking the action Live from the FCC. Watching the FCC Open Commission Meeting on Broadcast Ownership. (Thanks to Lou, who is commenting, live.) Diversity, localism and competition... Modern rules that take into account for proliferations... striking a careful balance... Retaining rules on network ownership, tightening radio ownership... It all sounds so benign. Ah, now Michael Copps is up. Hitting hard. This path places into the hands of a few giant corporations unprecedented control... Clear Channelization of the rest of American media... The majority instead choosed radical deregulation. Allows Are the new rules up somewhere? Here's a CBS Marketwatch story on the new rulemaking. And here's Dan. [The Doc Searls Weblog]
3:57:52 PM
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Dastar: Boyle's brilliance. So if you get a chance to read the Supreme Court's opinion in Dastar, keep in mind this brilliant observation by Duke Law Professor James Boyle:
So we now know that while the word "origin" in an IP statute must be carefully defined in order to prevent rights-creep that would undermine the careful limitiations struck in a statutory scheme, the words "promote," "progress," "limited" and even "author" can be defined any way Congress wanted to even if that upsets the careful balance struck in a constitutional clause, because they are only words in the Constitution, and thus much less fundamental.
Got it. [Lessig Blog]
3:55:52 PM
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Washington Post: FCC Votes to Ease Media Ownership Rules. Powell, who has called the controversy "one of the toughest things I've ever faced," said earlier that the current rules fail to take into account the growing influence of Internet and paid television programming, and have been broadly questioned by the courts. [Tomalak's Realm]
3:51:42 PM
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Cleaning out, I came across Homo Deceptus: Never trust Stephen Jay Gould. By Robert Wright, in Slate (1996). At the risk of sounding grandiose, I hereby declare myself to be involved in a bitter feud with no less a personage than Stephen Jay Gould.
10:30:03 AM
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