July 2010 Blog Posts (3)

More than just a legal iphone jailbreak...

Statement of the Librarian of Congress Relating to Section 1201 Rulemaking

U.S. Copyright Office

101 Independence Avenue SE

Washington, DC 20559-6000

(202) 707-3000

Revised: 23-Jul-2010

(1) Motion pictures on DVDs that are lawfully made and acquired and that are protected by the Content Scrambling System when circumvention is accomplished solely in order to accomplish the incorporation of short portions of motion pictures into new works for the purpose of… Continue

Added by Bryan M Boyd on July 27, 2010 at 6:08pm — 2 Comments

scary news from NC

I'm not sure what kind of things we should be posting, but I came back from vacation to find that a reporter from NC's PBS station had 200 hours of tape she shot for a documentary on a corporate polluter subpoenaed by our legislature. They watched a rough cut of her documentary (that the station is distancing itself from) in Senate Chambers before it aired.

What's worse, is that because UNC-TV is considered a state agency (who knew? They're governed by the Board of Governors which runs… Continue

Added by Mark Barroso on July 11, 2010 at 1:46am — 10 Comments