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…

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…

Adjunct Narratives

This post is cross-posted from Yellow Dog with the permission of its author, Jeff Rice of the University of Kentucky. First person narratives about the adjunct experience in academia are being published – it seems – daily. Today, I came across a link from a Facebook friend about a Fairbanks, Alaska adjunct on food stamps.  A link to…

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…

Public Intellectuals and the AAUP

This is a guest post by Ellen Schrecker, a professor of history emerita at Yeshiva University. She also is a former editor of Academe and served on the AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure. Her article, “One Historian’s Perspective on Academic Freedom and the AAUP,” is in the January-February issue of Academe. Since I no longer edit…

Facing the Facts in Higher Education

One of the recurring themes making the higher education circuit these days is that “Paris is burning . . . and higher education’s leadership – including trustees, faculty, and most presidents – is pretending that nothing is happening.” There is truth to this argument. The facts support the claims by many thoughtful educators that better…