Monday Morning Coffee – 27 July 2020
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning.
- I find Brewster Kahle’s attempts to mischaracterize the Internet Archive’s recent actions to be infuriating, but the fact he choose to fib makes me wonder if his legal arguments are even weaker than I thought.
- A law student dug into the fair use arguments surrounding CDL (controlled Digital Lending), and found them wanting.
- David Gaughran explains why the "A9 algorithm" training touted by marketers is a scam based on a myth.
- EG Radcliff delves into how to develop a research strategy.
- Here’s a handy guide on the California Consumer Privacy Act. The tl;dr version is that 99% of us can ignore it.
- The inspiration for Richard Curtis’s "Yesterday" was a screenplay with a much less cliched story.
- The Daily Beast published a memoir by a writer who had chauffeured Jorge Luis Borges around Scotland in 1971.
- As many as 270 million records may have been stolen in a security breach at Wattpad.
Comments
Allen F July 28, 2020 um 4:57 pm
The A9 was a fun/funny read – and just what those snake-oil sales drones don’t want you knowing. 😉
Robert Nagle July 29, 2020 um 11:58 am
I’ve commented before about CDL. First, there was a time limit imposed on the limitless borrows, which would strike one as reasonable for the circumstances. Second, if you’re going to link to law students from outside the US, why not also link to white papers by US law professors on the topic? https://controlleddigitallending.org/statement
Third, you might not realize this, but some library systems have shut down Interlibrary loans for several months I had several requests I needed to make related to research, but I’ve basically had to wait. (I just checked my main library — thankfully, ILL is now working again). No ILL was really inconvenient to me — though most of the things I needed were articles from old journals and not actually books.
Nate Hoffelder July 29, 2020 um 3:03 pm
Except CDL is not that relevant here given that the IA basically threw it away when they started lending without restrictions.