RIGHTS:  Dropping Knowledge, Picking It Up
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BERLIN, Sep 12 (IPS) - Asking questions. This everyday activity is the key  to sowing the seeds of change according to Dropping Knowledge, a  German-U.S. non-governmental organisation which hopes to  germinate those seeds online, and create an unprecedented  database of the pressing social themes of our times.
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The 14-part series documenting the civil rights movement is in jeopardy because the rights to much of the archival footage in it have expired. Documentary filmmakers say securing clearance rights is a growing problem, and it will get worse. By Katie Dean.
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Changes at The Journal: movable deadlines and a new taste for models.
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Parting with treasured books can be hard enough, but then there is the problem of what to do with them.
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What happened to the guts in mainstream publications? I recall back in the 80s InfoWorld pressured Lotus into ditching its copy protection scheme by docking Lotus 1-2-3 several points in reviews because of the inconvenience. I believe Lotus was the first to buckle, but other vendors jumped on the bandwagon and abandoned copy protection. Fast forward to today. Not only has copy protection come back from the grave, it has risen like a juggernaut zombie bent on eating everyone's brains. Worse, many consumers and writers alike seem to be unscrewing their scalps and willingly offering up the meal. "I want the latest iThing, it's so cool!" Sure, you'll find appropriate outrage in Linux Journal and a handful of renegade publications like the Register. But what happened to the mainstream journals with the guts of yesteryear?
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Fighting clutter? Here's how to clear it out.
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Though communications protections exist, the law is fuzzy regarding internet and e-mail activity. Watch out for the legalization of digital mind readers tracing internet users' thoughts and interests, and trampling privacy rights in the process.
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Researching things on the web is an essential part of everyday business - but too often books and other printed sources get left behind.
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Using the Freedom of Information Act to get information from the government is like waiting for ketchup to flow from a new bottle. Both often take longer than they are supposed to.
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A formula for Web schemes: a lot of mathematicians, a lax legal system and Western targets.
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Rethinking privacy in an immodest age.
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The initiative is evidence that U.S. companies and universities are searching for ways to be less hampered by legal wrangling about who holds the patents to research.
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Consider the New World of Information - stuff that, unlike the paper days of the past, doesn't always physically exist. You've got notes, scrawlings and snippets, Web graphics, photos and sounds. Stuff needs to be cut, pasted, highlighted, annotated, crossed out, dragged away. And, as Ross Perot used to say (or maybe it was Dana Carvey impersonating him), don't forget the graphs and charts.
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The chances of a user being sued for intellectual property (IP) infringement related to software usage are slim, industry observers say. But that may change, as some companies hoard patents for the express purpose of using them to extract money from sellers and users of software.
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Legal and research expenses drag its bottom line down.
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Glut of Internet info has changed higher education  Your article on college plagiarism (Hampton Roads, March 5) touched on an issue that is radically changing the terrain of higher education: the staggering amount of information available through the Internet.
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Press embargoes may have served a useful purpose at some point, but now they are mostly PR tools. So let the information flow. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg.