To my surprise and delight, the good folks at Duke Law have produced this comic book to explain the law of fair use and how expanding copyrights is producing lots of “collateral damage” in the free speech department. Back when I was in law school I had an idea for an entire series of comic books dramatizing the law school curriculum. Happily for the world, I can’t even draw stick figures as well as Jim Snider did in his Cartoon Guide to Federal Spectrum Policy.
Stay tuned . . .
David Mandelbaum ’57 and Karen Mandelbaum have made a gift to the Center for Jewish Life (@PrincetonHillel) @Princeton in the #VentureForward campaign that will make possible renovation and expansion of the center’s main kitchen and dining facilities. https://alumni.princeton.edu/stories/mandelbaum-dining-pavilion-center-jewish-life
Life has become The Onion.
Social media users have been sharing a false CNN headline that Rice Krispies mascot Pop is now a transgender woman. CNN did not report this, and Kellogg’s confirmed that it has made no such change. https://bit.ly/3wPCL2a
"Adjourns" not actually adjourn sine dyne so Biden can make recess appointments.
This is something Ds can actually do. So of course no one is even asking them to do it.
Senate adjourns for Memorial Day recess. Back June 6
Most definitely silly, and yet another example of how certain Dems in San Francisco can do things that make Dems in the rest of the U.S. want to yeet their Bay Area counterparts into the Pacific. https://twitter.com/normative/status/1529922830024032283
(1) This is sort of silly. It’s a French/Latin derived word first recorded in the early 1300s. Does anyone really hear “Chief Executive” and think of Native Americans?
(2) You may have to pick a new link shortener, SF Chronicle. https://twitter.com/sfchronicle/status/1529612791522504707
Off the topic, you may want to see this column in Information Week. (Broke the URL in bits to get it to fit in this box….)
http://www.informationweek….
showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=
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Then you can smack him with the clue by four
Most extremely cool.
So much work to be done! The RightsMonster is an all-devouring beast. It denies us our own history, thereby condemming us to all kinds of bad stuff. I’m thinking of the Eyes on the Prize debacle, a rights obscenity if ever there was one.