Wall Street Journal
Online-Books Lawsuit Tests Limits of Libraries in Digital Age
On March 20, US District Judge John Koeltl in Manhattan will weigh pleas by four major book publishers to stop an online lending library from freely offering digital copies of books, in a case that raises novel questions about digital-library rights and the reach of copyright law that protects the work of writers and publishers. Nonprofit organization Internet Archive created the digital books, building its collection by scanning physical book copies in its possession.
Justice Department Probes TikTok’s Tracking of U.S. Journalists (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by benton on Sat, 03/18/2023 - 11:27TikTok Ramps Up Lobbying in Washington to Try to Avoid U.S. Ban (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 03/17/2023 - 06:15A $100 Billion Bet on Semiconductors Hinges on Remaking Upstate New York’s Workforce (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 03/17/2023 - 06:15Google Glass Is Going Away, Again (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 03/17/2023 - 06:14European Courts Side With Big Companies Including Amazon and Experian in Privacy Appeals (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 03/17/2023 - 06:07U.S. Threatens Ban if TikTok’s Chinese Owners Don’t Sell Stakes (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 03/16/2023 - 06:31Campaign Legal Center Calls on FCC to Probe Questionable Stockholdings
The Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan government-watchdog group, called on the Office of Government Ethics, the federal agency that oversees ethics rules, to investigate whether the Federal Communications Commission complied with financial-conflict rules when it permitted several top officials to own stocks in apparent violation of the agency’s own rules. The Campaign Legal Center said FCC officials owned stocks in cable