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Judge Chin Says He Will Cut the Google Book Settlement 38

Posted by timothy
from the why-not-horizontally dept.
Miracle Jones writes "In a move that has shocked the publishing world, Judge Denny Chin has filed a brief saying that he has decided to cut the Google Book Settlement in half, letting Google host the first half of every book the company has scanned, and letting other interested stakeholders fight for the rights to the rest. 'We think this is a hard decision, but a fair one,' said John Peter Franks for Google. 'We would like to be able to host and control whole books, but at least we get the front half.'"

Comment: Re:show off your programming skills (Score 1) 441

by PaintyThePirate (#31650376) Attached to: Best Way To Land Entry-Level Job?
Agreed. It's a little known fact that you can apply to GSoC as long as you are still a student as of April 26, 2010. It's likely what got me interviews, and eventually my job.

FOSS projects tend not to care about who you know, where you studied, or what your GPA was, as much as they care about your creativity, your drive, and your skills.

Comment: Re:Missing Option (Score 1) 256

by PaintyThePirate (#31532456) Attached to: I've originated Q Wikipedia articles, where Q =
It's strongly discouraged because interesting and relevant trivia should be part of the text of the article itself.

Instead, someone starts a trivia list on the page, and people add every obscure video game or episode of Naruto that happens to mention the topic of the article.

As far as the poll goes, I originated one article, which was subsequently deleted.

Comment: Re:Too Bad No Creative Commons (Score 4, Informative) 115

by PaintyThePirate (#31504538) Attached to: C-Span Posts Full Archives Online
Check out the rights page. All of the footage of Congress and various Federal events is under the Public Domain. It's annoyingly still flash video, but you can legally rip it from the site and do whatever you want with it. Same with the subtitles.

It's nice to see copyright law working correctly for once.

Comment: Re:Time-Based Filesystem (Score 3, Interesting) 175

by PaintyThePirate (#31397840) Attached to: Time To Take the Internet Seriously
Interestingly, this is the approach that OLPC and now Sugar Labs have taken for file access in Sugar, using the Journal activity. This is also the direction Gnome is heading in, with Zeitgeist and its GUIs.

It's a little strange at first, and it certainly can't replace normal file browsers completely, but it ends up being pretty convenient in day to day use. Of course, these aren't filesystems, just layers atop them.

Comment: Re:Legal Questions of Virtual Activity? (Score 4, Insightful) 85

by PaintyThePirate (#31282480) Attached to: Examining Virtual Crimes
Bad analogy. The real life equivalent of what you're saying is getting convicted for shooting at a paper target. These laws are about harassing human beings over the medium of video games.

That's not to say the laws aren't ridiculous, just that your example isn't an argument against it.

It is indeed desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. -- Plutarch

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