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(107 being the section of the US Copyright Code that deals with fair use)

Despite all of these rights
All people can reproduce
To report, criticise, or teach
Because that is fair use

Yehuda Berlinger is a genius. Here’s the entire code in verse. Beautiful. Notified by Eoin, who is probably trying to find a way to set it to Gilbert and Sullivan music by now.

The Free Software Foundation Europe held an important conference in Barcelona last month. They have gone to some trouble to compile transcripts, videos etc, all accessible from this index page - bookmark and read at your leisure, or download the lot.

With thanks to Ciarán O’Riordan.

Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and University College Cork (UCC), as the two
leading research universities in Ireland, have identified a number of research
areas in which they have complementary strengths and wish to develop these
areas in tandem to ensure maximum intellectual, educational and economic
benefits of the two universities in national and international terms.

Full press release in comments; also on UCC’s site; amusingly, it’s not on TCD’s yet (it was emailed to staff and students today).

Is this a good thing? Posturing or progress?

Thoughts welcome, especially from those affiliated with any of the now-deemed third, fourth, fifth, sixth or seventh-best universities

A while back, I referred to the nomination/election process for ICANN. By way of update, I now note the good news that Kieren McCarthy, a journalist in Britain, has applied for the ICANN board vacancy.

Kieren is probably the only journalist that I always end up citing for anything ICANN-related, as he has always added detail (especially in articles for the Register) that others miss (probably because they’re too busy giving the Governance for Dummies schpiel and throwing in some random ad hom abuse about the UN) and is thus virtually a primary source on ICANN and governance goings-on. If he’s chosen, I’ll have to find someone else to rely on. But selfishness aside, go Kieren!

I don’t usually put embedded videos on Lex Ferenda. This being a serious scholarly place and all that (yeah, sure). However, I do so tonight, to recognise that the Google Video Top 100 now contains that great favourite of Internet past and now present, the ham(p)sters…