House Hearings on Intellectual Property and the Internet and the Issues Related to “Fair Use”: Part 3, David Lowery’s Testimony

David Lowery Singer | Songwriter Lecturer, Terry College of Business University of Georgia January 28, 2014 I. Introduction Chairman Goodlatte, Chairman Coble, Ranking Member, and Members of the Subcommittee, My name is David Lowery and I am a mathematician, writer, musician, producer and entrepreneur based in Richmond, VA and Athens, GA. While studying mathematics at the University…

House Hearings on Intellectual Property and the Internet and the Issues Related to “Fair Use”: Part 2, Peter Jaszi’s Testimony

Professor Peter Jaszi Washington College of Law American University Washington, D.C.   January 28, 2014   FAIR USE NOW   I teach copyright law at the American University law school here in DC. For last decade or so, most of my work as a scholar, an activist and (occasionally) a litigator has focused on the…

House Hearings on Intellectual Property and the Internet and the Issues Related to “Fair Use”: Part 1, June M. Besek’s Testimony

June M. Besek  Executive Director of the Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts and Lecturer-in-Law,  Columbia Law School jbesek@law.columbia.edu January 28, 2014, 2:00 p.m. Thank you, Chairman Goodlatte, Chairman Coble, Ranking Member Conyers, and members of the Committee. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. My name is June Besek. I am the Executive Director…

New Issue of the Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

JCBA is an open access, peer-review online publication of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions. Jeffrey Cross, Eastern Illinois University and Steve Hicks, Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties are JCBA’s Editors-in-Chief. JCBA welcomes submission of scholarly articles for future volumes from a wide community of university and college faculty,…

Text of the State of the Union Address

Delivered by President Obama Tuesday, January 28, 2014 Washington, D.C.   As Prepared for Delivery – Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, my fellow Americans: Today in America, a teacher spent extra time with a student who needed it, and did her part to lift America’s graduation rate to its highest level in…

A Far-Right Alternative to Raising the Minimum Wage

Reason provides a very Libertarian slant on current issues. The articles consistently reflect a Far-Right ideology, but there is little of the very obvious pandering to parochialism and paranoia that taints many other major Far-Right publications, from World Net Daily to the American Spectator to even the National Review. True to the periodical’s title, most…

As Much Insight as Irony in Some Juxtapositions

As the midsection of the country descends once again into a deep freeze, I thought that some reference to stories that emerged during the first “polar vortex” might help to keep things in perspective. Several weeks ago, two stories from Chicago seemed especially illustrative of just how cold it was, though it turned out that…