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The Internet

Submission + - German gov't donates 100,000 images to Wikipedia (wikimedia.org)

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Raul654
Raul654 writes: "The German Federal Archive has agreed to donate 100,000 images to Wikipedia under the German version of the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License. These pictures cover a period from 1860 to present. This is the largest picture donation ever to Wikipedia, and possibly the largest in the history of the free culture movement."
The Courts

Submission + - Court rules in favor of WMF in hyperlinking case (gov.bc.ca)

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Raul654
Raul654 writes: "The Surpeme Court of British Columbia recently ruled in favor of the Wikimedia Foundation in Crookes v. Wikimedia Foundation Inc. At issue was whether or not the act of hyperlinking to a website containing defamatory material is itself defamatory. The court ruled in favor of the WMF, finding that it is not. The WMF is the non-profit organization that runs Wikipedia and its sister projects."
GNU is Not Unix

Submission + - GFDL 1.3 released - Allows migration to CC

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Raul654
Raul654 writes: "Version 1.3 of the GNU Free Documentation License has been released. The Wikimedia Foundation, the GFDL's biggest user, had requested that the Free Software Foundation add a new section allowing migration to the much-simpler Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. The FSF responded by adding this: A wiki ("MMC" under the terms of the license) is eligible for relicensing if "if it is licensed under this License, and if all works that were first published under this License somewhere other than this MMC, and subsequently incorporated in whole or in part into the MMC, (1) had no cover texts or invariant sections, and (2) were thus incorporated prior to November 1, 2008. The operator of an MMC Site may republish an MMC contained in the site under CC-BY-SA on the same site at any time before August 1, 2009, provided the MMC is eligible for relicensing." This change should allow Wikipedia and other early GFDL adopters to migrate if they so desire."
The Courts

Submission + - Stanford Fair Use Project to defend Expelled (businesswire.com)

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Raul654
Raul654 writes: "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed is a recent film starring Ben Stein which portrays science (and specifically, evolution) as responsible for a host of evils, including atheism, communism, and the Holocaust. The producers of the film are being sued by Yoko Ono for using John Lennon's song "Imagine" without a license. (The film shows clips Joseph Stalin and Chinese communist party troops as the viewer hears John Lennon singing "Imagine" as the lyrics "and no religion too" are superimposed against the images.) Earlier this week, Lawrence Lessig's Fair Use Project announced that they would defend Premise Media's right to use the song."
The Internet

Submission + - Wikipedia wins defamation case

Submitted by Raul654
Raul654 writes: Yesterday, a french judge dismissed a lawsuit against the Wikimedia Foundation for defamation. The judge found that "Web site hosts cannot be liable under civil law because of information stored on them if they do not in fact know of their illicit nature". According to the inquirer: "Three plaintiffs were each seeking 69,000 euros ($100,000) in damages for invasion of their privacy after their homosexuality was revealed on the website."
Sci-Fi

Submission + - Babylon 5: The Lost Tales released (wikipedia.org)

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Raul654
Raul654 writes: "Voices in the Dark, the first episode of Babylon 5: The Lost Tales is being released today. The Lost Tales are half-hour shorts that focus on a small group of characters. Series creator J. Michael Straczynski choose to do a short format instead of a feature-length film due to the deaths of Andreas Katsulas (J'Kar) and Richard Biggs (Dr. Franklin). The first episode will feature John Sheridan, Elizabeth Lochley, and the technomage Galen."
The Internet

Submission + - Make a viral video, lose your job

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Raul654
Raul654 writes: "Philip de Vellis, the author of the Hilary Clinton viral video was outed today on the Huffington Post. The company he works for, Blue State Digital, has now fired him as a result. Said Vellis: "I made the 'Vote Different' ad because I wanted to express my feelings about the Democratic primary, and because I wanted to show that an individual citizen can affect the process.""
Sci-Fi

Submission + - Scientifically accurate Scifi for high-schoolers

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Raul654 writes: A member of my immediate family is a biology teacher at an all girls school high-school. For some years, she's been giving her students the option to earn extra credit by reading a science-related book. I've been asked to compile for her a list of scientifically-accurate science fiction novels. So, Slashdot — what are some good scientifically accurate science fiction books for high school girls?
United States

Submission + - Bush Administration ends warrantless survelliance

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Raul654
Raul654 writes: "Reuters is reporting that today, the Bush administration decided not to reauthorize its highly controversial NSA warrantless surveillance. US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said: "Any electronic surveillance that was occurring as part of the Terrorist Surveillance Program will now be conducted subject to the approval of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court""

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