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Librologie 8 : Les Petits Cœurs De Tatie Nina
Librologie 8 : Les petits cœurs de tatie Nina Bonjour à vous, courageux public du Framablog ! Avec l’épisode d’aujourd’hui et le prochain, qui concluera cette première partie de saison Librologique, je vous propose d’ébaucher le portrait de deux personnalités importantes du monde Libre, parfois complémentaires, parfois opposées. Contrairement à Linus Torvalds ou Richard Stallman avec qui nous avions ouvert ces chroniques, il ne s’agit pas là de programmeurs ni de techniciens, mais d’auteurs : de ces auteurs qui réfléchissent sur leur propre droit — puisque le droit d’auteur, c’est bien conçu pour… les auteurs, non ? (Comment ça, « rien compris » ?) V. Villenave. Librologie 8 : Les petits cœurs de tatie Nina « En 1988, à l’âge tendre de 20 ans, je quittai ma ville natale de Urbana, Illinois, pour Santa Cruz en Californie, afin d’y poursuivre le rêve naïf de devenir hippie, new-age et ésotérique. Au lieu de quoi je suis devenue illustratrice et cynique. » C’est ainsi que Nina Paley raconte son histoire, de la banlieue de Chicago (Urbana, dont son père a été un maire courageux) à la Californie — le choix de Santa Cruz n’est pas innocent : indissociable des bouleversements sociaux des années 1960-1970, cette ville correspond bien à l’arrière-plan idéologique de la « Nouvelle Gauche » de cette époque, effectivement liée au mouvement hippie, mais également à l’avènement d’une conception nouvelle des sciences humaines (sociologie, psychiatrie alternative,…). Avec toutefois une tournure moins optimiste dans le cas de Paley : par exemple, elle revendique son choix de ne pas faire d’enfants comme un choix militant ; membre revendiquée duMouvement pour l’Extinction Volontaire de l’Espèce Humaine, sa principale préoccupation politique (tout au moins dans la période 1995-2005) semble être la surpopulation humaine. -
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CULTIVATING OPEN INFORMATION PLATFORMS: A LAND TRUST MODEL MOLLY SHAFFER VAN HOUWELING* INTRODUCTION James Boyle has led a recent call for intellectual property “environmentalism”—a movement to fend off perceived threats to the public interest posed by expansions in the scope and term of intellectual property protection.1 Inspired in part by Boyle’s message, a number of organizations have sprung up that aspire to expand and cultivate the body of intellectual works that are not subject to proprietary control.2 The Internet’s original development as a non-proprietary in- formation platform is another source of inspiration for this incip- ient movement.3 The Internet is built on a suite of protocols— * Assistant Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School. Thanks to Kenneth Bamberger, Stefan Bechtold, Glenn Otis Brown, Julie Cohen, Bruce Damer, Rebecca Eisenberg, Edward Felten, Frank Hecker, Daphne Keller, Thom LeDoux, Mark Lemley, Lawrence Lessig, Douglas Lichtman, Ronald Mann, Thomas Nachbar, Maureen O’Rourke, Timothy Schoechle, Theodore Ts’o, Robert Van Houweling, and Jonathan Zittrain for comments. This essay was the basis for a presentation at the Silicon Flatirons Telecommunications Program Conference on Regulation of Information Platforms. Thanks to Philip Weiser for organizing the conference and to him and the other conference participants for their comments. 1. See, e.g., James Boyle, A Politics of Intellectual Property: Environmentalism for the Net?, 47 DUKE L.J. 87, 108-16 (1997); James Boyle, The Second Enclosure Movement and the Construction of the Public Domain, 39-43 (paper presented at the Duke conference on the Public Domain, Nov. 2001), discussion draft available at http://www.law.duke.edu/pd/papers/boyle.pdf; see also Seth Shulman, Intellectual- Property Ecology, TECHNOLOGY REVIEW, Mar. -
SFLC V Conservancy
Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Electronic Filing System. http://estta.uspto.gov ESTTA Tracking number: ESTTA863914 Filing date: 12/11/2017 IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE BEFORE THE TRADEMARK TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD Proceeding 92066968 Party Defendant Software Freedom Conservancy Correspondence PAMELA S CHESTECK Address CHESTEK LEGAL P O BOX 2492 RALEIGH, NC 27602 UNITED STATES Email: [email protected] Submission Motion for Summary Judgment Yes, the Filer previously made its initial disclosures pursuant to Trademark Rule 2.120(a); OR the motion for summary judgment is based on claim or issue pre- clusion, or lack of jurisdiction. The deadline for pretrial disclosures for the first testimony period as originally set or reset: 07/20/2018 Filer's Name Pamela S Chestek Filer's email [email protected] Signature /Pamela S Chestek/ Date 12/11/2017 Attachments Motion for SJ on affirmative defenses-signed.pdf(756280 bytes ) Kuhn-Declara- tion_summary-judgment_as-submitted_reduced-size-signed.pdf(2181238 bytes ) Sandler-declara- tion_summary-judgment_as-submitted-reduced-size-signed.pdf(1777273 bytes ) Chestek declaration_summary-judgment-signed-with-exhibits.pdf(2003142 bytes ) IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE BEFORE THE TRADEMARK TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD In the Mater of Registraion No. 4212971 Mark: SOFTWARE FREEDOM CONSERVANCY Registraion date: September 25, 2012 Sotware Freedom Law Center Peiioner, v. Cancellaion No. 92066968 Sotware Freedom Conservancy Registrant. RESPONDENT’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT ON ITS AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSES Introducion The Peiioner, Sotware Freedom Law Center (“SFLC”), is a provider of legal services. It had the idea to create an independent enity that would ofer inancial and administraive services for free and open source sotware projects. -
The Walled Gardens of Ebook Surveillance: a Brief Set of Arguments Against DRM in Libraries
City University of New York (CUNY) CUNY Academic Works Publications and Research CUNY Graduate Center 2015 The Walled Gardens of Ebook Surveillance: A Brief Set of Arguments Against DRM in Libraries Alycia Sellie Graduate Center, CUNY How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! More information about this work at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_pubs/162 Discover additional works at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu This work is made publicly available by the City University of New York (CUNY). Contact: [email protected] The Walled Gardens of Ebook Surveillance: A Brief Set of Arguments Against DRM in Libraries There are three claims I will make in this article about including electronic books with DRM restrictions in library collections. These arguments center upon what the presence of restricted ebooks signifies to patrons about libraries. The first argument outlines how providing books with DRM encourages library users to adopt low expectations for how their personal information will be shared and collected. Second, when users encounter DRM within library collections, not only are they frustrated by the ways that these systems restrict their use of a text, but they become more broadly disappointed in their library. Finally, I will show how the current technological landscape that allows third party surveillance via DRM threatens the professional standing of librarians as protectors of patron information. What is DRM? To me, DRM stands for Digital Restrictions Management. But choosing to call it such is a political choice.1 Others refer to DRM as Digital Rights Management. In a nutshell, DRM controls access to digital content and restricts the functionality a devices, such as an ebook reader or computer. -
Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright
Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright Eben Moglen£ May 17, 1999 I Software as Property: The Theoretical Paradox SOFTWARE: no other word so thoroughly connotes the practical and social effects of the digital revolution. Originally, the term was purely tech- nical, and denoted the parts of a computer system that, unlike “hardware,” which was unchangeably manufactured in system electronics, could be al- tered freely. The first software amounted to the plug configuration of ca- bles or switches on the outside panels of an electronic device, but as soonas linguistic means of altering computer behavior had been developed, “soft- ware” mostly denoted the expressions in more or less human-readable lan- guage that both described and controlled machine behavior.1 £ Professor of Law & Legal History, Columbia Law School. Prepared for delivery at the Buchmann International Conference on Law, Technology and Information, at Tel Aviv Uni- versity, May 1999; my thanks to the organizers for their kind invitation. I owe much as always to Pamela Karlan for her insight and encouragement. Thanks are due to Jerome Saltzer, Richard Stallman, and numerous others who freely contributed corrections and im- povements to this paper. I especially wish to thank the programmers throughout the world who made free software possible. 1The distinction was only approximate in its original context. By the late 1960s cer- tain portions of the basic operation of hardware were controlled by programs digitally en- coded in the electronics of computer equipment, not subject to change after the units left the factory. Such symbolic but unmodifiable components were known in the trade as “mi- crocode,” but it became conventional to refer to them as “firmware.” Softness, the term “firmware” demonstrated, referred primarily to users’ ability to alter symbols determining machine behavior. -
SNC: a Cloud Service Platform for Symbolic-Numeric Computation Using Just-In-Time Compilation
This article has been accepted for publication in a future issue of this journal, but has not been fully edited. Content may change prior to final publication. Citation information: DOI 10.1109/TCC.2017.2656088, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CLOUD COMPUTING 1 SNC: A Cloud Service Platform for Symbolic-Numeric Computation using Just-In-Time Compilation Peng Zhang1, Member, IEEE, Yueming Liu1, and Meikang Qiu, Senior Member, IEEE and SQL. Other types of Cloud services include: Software as a Abstract— Cloud services have been widely employed in IT Service (SaaS) in which the software is licensed and hosted in industry and scientific research. By using Cloud services users can Clouds; and Database as a Service (DBaaS) in which managed move computing tasks and data away from local computers to database services are hosted in Clouds. While enjoying these remote datacenters. By accessing Internet-based services over lightweight and mobile devices, users deploy diversified Cloud great services, we must face the challenges raised up by these applications on powerful machines. The key drivers towards this unexploited opportunities within a Cloud environment. paradigm for the scientific computing field include the substantial Complex scientific computing applications are being widely computing capacity, on-demand provisioning and cross-platform interoperability. To fully harness the Cloud services for scientific studied within the emerging Cloud-based services environment computing, however, we need to design an application-specific [4-12]. Traditionally, the focus is given to the parallel scientific platform to help the users efficiently migrate their applications. In HPC (high performance computing) applications [6, 12, 13], this, we propose a Cloud service platform for symbolic-numeric where substantial effort has been given to the integration of computation– SNC. -
Librologie 8 : Les Petits Cœurs De Tatie Nina
Librologie 8 : Les petits cœurs de tatie Nina Bonjour à vous, courageux public du Framablog ! Avec l’épisode d’aujourd’hui et le prochain, qui concluera cette première partie de saison Librologique, je vous propose d’ébaucher le portrait de deux personnalités importantes du monde Libre, parfois complémentaires, parfois opposées. Contrairement à Linus Torvalds ou Richard Stallman avec qui nous avions ouvert ces chroniques, il ne s’agit pas là de programmeurs ni de techniciens, mais d’auteurs : de ces auteurs qui réfléchissent sur leur propre droit — puisque le droit d’auteur, c’est bien conçu pour… les auteurs, non ? (Comment ça, « rien compris » ?) V. Villenave. Librologie 8 : Les petits cœurs de tatie Nina « En 1988, à l’âge tendre de 20 ans, je quittai ma ville natale de Urbana, Illinois, pour Santa Cruz en Californie, afin d’y poursuivre le rêve naïf de devenir hippie, new-age et ésotérique. Au lieu de quoi je suis devenue illustratrice et cynique. » C’est ainsi que Nina Paley raconte son histoire, de la banlieue de Chicago (Urbana, dont son père a été un maire courageux) à la Californie — le choix de Santa Cruz n’est pas innocent : indissociable des bouleversements sociaux des années 1960-1970, cette ville correspond bien à l’arrière-plan idéologique de la « Nouvelle Gauche » de cette époque, effectivement liée au mouvement hippie, mais également à l’avènement d’une conception nouvelle des sciences humaines (sociologie, psychiatrie alternative,…). Avec toutefois une tournure moins optimiste dans le cas de Paley : par exemple, elle revendique son choix de ne pas faire d’enfants comme un choix militant ; membre revendiquée duMouvement pour l’Extinction Volontaire de l’Espèce Humaine, sa principale préoccupation politique (tout au moins dans la période 1995-2005) semble être la surpopulation humaine. -
Jaromil's Research 2009
Jaromil’s Research 2009 Jaromil’s Journal of Musings November 12, 2010 Almost every day I dedicate 2 good hours to research: nothing in particular, just looking around for inspirations, tools, publications and what not. Thanks go to the NIMk1 employing me in research and development. This diary is still in fieri: some links are scattered and still lacking comments, while it will grow complete over time, you might be also interested to read the research diary 20082. : Mon, 5 Jan 2009 John Maddog Hall: http://www.linux-magazine.com/online/blogs/paw_prints_writings_of_the_ maddog/campus_party_brazil_maddog_s_challenge_multimedia_and_free_software : Wed, 7 Jan 2009 uscito zeitgeist final ??? Not quite in the zone Fri, 9 Jan 2009 http://www.metamute.org/en/content/not_quite_in_the_zone Ben Watson http://www.militantesthetix. co.uk/ Politics in Israel Tue, 13 Jan 2009 Just before the elections in Israel and right after the massacre of civilians in Gaza, which also included bombing of UN headquarters and public incitations to murder peace activists3, it’s maybe time to have a look at how reasonable people are doing over there. One impressive campaign is December 18th4: at the motto of FREE THE SHMINISTIM“ young conscious objectors (among them also the daughter of a former deputy head of Mossad) stepped forward and refused to serve the omnipresent militarization of Israel, the country where they are born and that still forces them to serve IDF for 2 to 3 years. Since 20 years now (and finally) we had abolition of coercive military service for youth in Europe: this is definitely one of the most important political standpoints for Israel to work on, if it intends to get closer to Europe. -
Open Source Software
Open Source Software Agenda ● Definitions of different “types” of software ● Key characteristics of each type ● Key points of difference ● Cost of free/open source software ● Historical overview ● Licenses ● Examples of free/open source alternatives in a few domains Agenda (cont.) ● Extensions of the “open source” philosophy to other domains ● The anti-open-source brigade ● Reasons for using OSS Open source software ● Software whose source code can be viewed, modified and re-distributed in its modified form after it meets certain licensing restrictions, e.g., – indicating the authorship of various components – requiring that the modified version of the product also be open-sourced Free software ● As defined by Richard Stallman, affords the following freedoms to its users: – Freedom 0: The freedom to run the program for any purpose. – Freedom 1: The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish. – Freedom 2: The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor. – Freedom 3: The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements (and modified versions in general) to the public, so that the whole community benefits. Source: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Differences between open source and free software ● “The term 'open source' software is used by some people to mean more or less the same category as free software. It is not exactly the same class of software: they accept some licenses that we consider too restrictive, and there are free software licenses they have not -
Misc Thesisdb Bythesissuperv
Honors Theses 2006 to August 2020 These records are for reference only and should not be used for an official record or count by major or thesis advisor. Contact the Honors office for official records. Honors Year of Student Student's Honors Major Thesis Title (with link to Digital Commons where available) Thesis Supervisor Thesis Supervisor's Department Graduation Accounting for Intangible Assets: Analysis of Policy Changes and Current Matthew Cesca 2010 Accounting Biggs,Stanley Accounting Reporting Breaking the Barrier- An Examination into the Current State of Professional Rebecca Curtis 2014 Accounting Biggs,Stanley Accounting Skepticism Implementation of IFRS Worldwide: Lessons Learned and Strategies for Helen Gunn 2011 Accounting Biggs,Stanley Accounting Success Jonathan Lukianuk 2012 Accounting The Impact of Disallowing the LIFO Inventory Method Biggs,Stanley Accounting Charles Price 2019 Accounting The Impact of Blockchain Technology on the Audit Process Brown,Stephen Accounting Rebecca Harms 2013 Accounting An Examination of Rollforward Differences in Tax Reserves Dunbar,Amy Accounting An Examination of Microsoft and Hewlett Packard Tax Avoidance Strategies Anne Jensen 2013 Accounting Dunbar,Amy Accounting and Related Financial Statement Disclosures Measuring Tax Aggressiveness after FIN 48: The Effect of Multinational Status, Audrey Manning 2012 Accounting Dunbar,Amy Accounting Multinational Size, and Disclosures Chelsey Nalaboff 2015 Accounting Tax Inversions: Comparing Corporate Characteristics of Inverted Firms Dunbar,Amy Accounting Jeffrey Peterson 2018 Accounting The Tax Implications of Owning a Professional Sports Franchise Dunbar,Amy Accounting Brittany Rogan 2015 Accounting A Creative Fix: The Persistent Inversion Problem Dunbar,Amy Accounting Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act: The Most Revolutionary Piece of Tax Szwakob Alexander 2015D Accounting Dunbar,Amy Accounting Legislation Since the Introduction of the Income Tax Prasant Venimadhavan 2011 Accounting A Proposal Against Book-Tax Conformity in the U.S. -
As Writers of Film and Television and Members of the Writers Guild Of
July 20, 2021 As writers of film and television and members of the Writers Guild of America, East and Writers Guild of America West, we understand the critical importance of a union contract. We are proud to stand in support of the editorial staff at MSNBC who have chosen to organize with the Writers Guild of America, East. We welcome you to the Guild and the labor movement. We encourage everyone to vote YES in the upcoming election so you can get to the bargaining table to have a say in your future. We work in scripted television and film, including many projects produced by NBC Universal. Through our union membership we have been able to negotiate fair compensation, excellent benefits, and basic fairness at work—all of which are enshrined in our union contract. We are ready to support you in your effort to do the same. We’re all in this together. Vote Union YES! In solidarity and support, Megan Abbott (THE DEUCE) John Aboud (HOME ECONOMICS) Daniel Abraham (THE EXPANSE) David Abramowitz (CAGNEY AND LACEY; HIGHLANDER; DAUGHTER OF THE STREETS) Jay Abramowitz (FULL HOUSE; MR. BELVEDERE; THE PARKERS) Gayle Abrams (FASIER; GILMORE GIRLS; 8 SIMPLE RULES) Kristen Acimovic (THE OPPOSITION WITH JORDAN KLEEPER) Peter Ackerman (THINGS YOU SHOULDN'T SAY PAST MIDNIGHT; ICE AGE; THE AMERICANS) Joan Ackermann (ARLISS) 1 Ilunga Adell (SANFORD & SON; WATCH YOUR MOUTH; MY BROTHER & ME) Dayo Adesokan (SUPERSTORE; YOUNG & HUNGRY; DOWNWARD DOG) Jonathan Adler (THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON) Erik Agard (THE CHASE) Zaike Airey (SWEET TOOTH) Rory Albanese (THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART; THE NIGHTLY SHOW WITH LARRY WILMORE) Chris Albers (LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O'BRIEN; BORGIA) Lisa Albert (MAD MEN; HALT AND CATCH FIRE; UNREAL) Jerome Albrecht (THE LOVE BOAT) Georgianna Aldaco (MIRACLE WORKERS) Robert Alden (STREETWALKIN') Richard Alfieri (SIX DANCE LESSONS IN SIX WEEKS) Stephanie Allain (DEAR WHITE PEOPLE) A.C. -
Release 2021-03
Metrics Release 2021-03 https://chaoss.community/metrics MIT License Copyright © 2021 CHAOSS a Linux Foundation® Project CHAOSS Contributors include: Aastha Bist, Abhinav Bajpai, Ahmed Zerouali, Akshara P, Akshita Gupta, Amanda Brindle, Anita Ihuman, Alberto Martín, Alberto Pérez García-Plaza, Alexander Serebrenik, Alexandre Courouble, Alolita Sharma, Alvaro del Castillo, Ahmed Zerouali, Amanda Casari, Amy Marrich, Ana Jimenez Santamaria, Andre Klapper, Andrea Gallo, Andy Grunwald, Andy Leak, Aniruddha Karajgi, Anita Sarma, Ankit Lohani, Ankur Sonawane, Anna Buhman, Armstrong Foundjem, Atharva Sharma, Ben Lloyd Pearson, Benjamin Copeland, Beth Hancock, Bingwen Ma, Boris Baldassari, Bram Adams, Brian Proffitt, Camilo Velazquez Rodriguez, Carol Chen, Carter Landis, Chris Clark, Christian Cmehil- Warn, Damien Legay, Dani Gellis, Daniel German, Daniel Izquierdo Cortazar, David A. Wheeler, David Moreno, David Pose, Dawn Foster, Derek Howard, Don Marti, Drashti, Duane O’Brien, Dylan Marcy, Eleni Constantinou, Elizabeth Barron, Emily Brown, Emma Irwin, Eriol Fox, Fil Maj, Gabe Heim, Georg J.P. Link, Gil Yehuda, Harish Pillay, Harshal Mittal, Henri Yandell, Henrik Mitsch, Igor Steinmacher, Ildiko Vancsa, Jacob Green, Jaice Singer Du Mars, Jaskirat Singh, Jason Clark, Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo, Jeff McAffer, Jeremiah Foster, Jessica Wilkerson, Jesus M. Gonzalez- Barahona, Jilayne Lovejoy, Jocelyn Matthews, Johan Linåker, John Mertic, Jon Lawrence, Jonathan Lipps, Jono Bacon, Jordi Cabot, Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente, Joshua Hickman, Joshua