Lex Ferenda

daithí mac sithigh’s blog on cyberlaw & media law

Who’ll be next for the R-I-A-A?

You’ve just been sued by the R.I.A.A.!
You’ve just been sued by the R.I.A.A.!
Their attorneys say, you committed a crime,
And there’d better not be a next time!
They’ve lost their minds at the R.I.A.A.!
Justice is blind at the R.I.A.A….
“You’re depriving the bands! You are learning to steal,
You can’t do whatever you feel!”
Fabulous parody of YMCA in [...]

Access to Academia

One of the things you discover as a research student is the importance of ‘getting published’ and getting accepted to conferences and events. When you have an interest, as I do, in the underlying issues of ‘open access’ to knowledge and indeed access to intellectual opportunities regardless of means, it’s a fun little laboratory [...]

 
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