Reason Magazine - Trading Places
Trading Places
William T. Bogart on dynamic cities and unaccountable planners
--------------------Boing Boing: Spike Lee's "When the Levees Broke" Katrina doc is online
--------------------Foreign Affairs - Intelligence, Policy,and the War in Iraq - Paul R. Pillar
--------------------Recorded sound has played an important role in the cultural, social, and political life of the United States. Recognizing this, and concerned about the preservation of and long-term access to the national sound heritage, the U.S. Congress enacted the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-474). This law directed the National Recording Preservation Board (NRPB), under the aegis of the Library of Congress (LC), to conduct a study and issue a report on the current state of sound-recording archiving, preservation, and restoration activities and to recommend standards for access to preserved-sound recordings by researchers, educators, and other interested parties.
The legislation clearly reflects Congress’s interest in ensuring accessibility to preserved-sound recordings. Legislators were careful to specify the study of technical physical-preservation needs as well as the study of any policies and laws that may hinder access to our nation’s preserved audio heritage. (The words copyright and access are explicitly mentioned three times in the outline of what the study is to include.)
--------------------Klepopotamus » Blog Archive » An Introduction to Copyfighting
--------------------I'm an anarchist. Among anarchists, I follow the communist tendency. That places me in the line of Peter Kropotkin, Emma Goldman, the brothers Reclus and Alexander Berkman, among others.
I believe there is no freedom without solidarity, nor any solidarity not freedly chosen. My ideas moved this way during my five or so years as a volunteer member of the Catholic Worker movement, first in New York City then in Des Moines, Iowa.
--------------------Joi Ito's Web: Brainstorm 2004 - interview with Ashraf Ghani
Finance Minister of Afghanistan
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