… is titled Suiting Up for the New Academic Year.
… this Sunday night, on my other blog, at Inside Higher Education.
… the community weblog MetaFilter. Feel free to look around.
… advertising on the Rush Limbaugh Show!
… her readers. You come from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, England, Hong Kong… And the US of A. You email me, with tips and ideas and limericks. You leave wonderful comments. You lurk, returning silently day after day to University Diaries, making whatever you make of it. You share what I write with your students, your colleagues.
You wrote me warm and encouraging emails this summer, after my operation.
I don’t know most of you. But today I want to say, with Jimmy Durante (sort of): Thank you, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are.
… what else? The Penn State mess. It’s not up yet. I’ll let you know when it’s been published. Meanwhile – a reminder. You can always check UD‘s IHE posts by clicking on READ MORE UD AT IHE on the right side of this page.
… but UD has rarely seen one as thoughtful, well-written, and persuasive as this one.
… the Runango Running Forum. Take a look around.
… from the Something Awful forums. Feel free to look around.
… to the controversy over the cover of Steve Reich’s 9/11 cd.
… about Theodore Roszak, author of The Making of a Counter Culture. He died this week.
I’ll let you know when the post is up.
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Here it is.
That’s the title of a new Inside Higher Education post at UD‘s second campus.
The Righthaven company, typically referred to as a copyright troll, has over the last year or so come at many bloggers with copyright violation lawsuits.
Now a judge has ruled that Righthaven never had legal standing to sue, and will probably be sanctioned for dishonesty.
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UPDATE: The Electronic Frontier Foundation comments:
“This kind of copyright trolling from Righthaven and Stephens Media has undermined free and open discussion on the Internet, scaring people out of sharing information and discussing the news of the day,” said [an EFF attorney]. “We hope this is the beginning of the end of this shameful litigation campaign.”
“To Righthaven and Stephens Media, the Court has issued a stinging rebuke,” added [another]. “For those desiring to resist the bullying of claims brought by pseudo-claimants of copyright interests, the ruling today represents a dramatic and far reaching victory.”
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Steve Green, the Las Vegas reporter who has owned the Righthaven story, concludes:
[F]ederal judges don’t appreciate their courtrooms being used as ATM machines by Righthaven.
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UPDATE: Eric Johnson, a specialist in copyright law, draws some moral conclusions:
Righthaven lawyers constructed a sham transaction, and then made multiple misrepresentations to courts and third parties in order to hide the sham nature of the transaction. This was done in a bid to get a number of unsophisticated, unrepresented defendants to fork over substantial settlement payments, largely out of fear or because of their financial inability to mount a defense.
The potential to pervert our civil justice system in this way is one of the most important reasons attorneys are required to demonstrate a high moral character as a prerequisite to receiving a license to practice law. Righthaven’s behavior, in my opinion, is incompatible with that standard.
He anticipates the disbarment of Righthaven attorneys.
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If you want to read some of the best prose UD has ever seen, read this. When the history of Righthaven is written, paragraphs and paragraphs from this letter will be front and center.
… is now up at Inside Higher Ed.
… and it’s got a pretentious French title: Tapis Roulant Hédonique
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Update: “Don’t you know who I am?”
If it’s true that DSK repeated this, it would be totally according to Jonah Lehrer’s script.
Dr. Bernard Carroll, known as the "conscience of psychiatry," contributed to various blogs, including Margaret Soltan's University Diaries, for which he sometimes wrote limericks under the name Adam.
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