ICANN Ushers In New Era for Domain Names

by: Morgan Willard, MTTLR Associate EditorThis past June, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers voted upon and approved a set of measures that constitute sweeping changes for the way that the Domain Name System (DNS), the set of rules governing how...

Data Sharing and the Digital Science Commons

by: Mustafa Ünlü, Associate Editor, MTTLRI. The curiously chameleonic properties of data ownershipImage Protein models by Alan Wolf.Used under a Creative Commons BY-NC-CA 2.0 license. Data 1 is both the primary output as well as the most vital input of the scientific...

Licensing online quotations – link roundup

by Nancy Sims, MTTLR Blog editorIn early June, news site the Drudge Retort received DMCA takedown notices from the Associated Press, for several pieces containing 39- to 79-word quotations from AP articles . Although the AP quickly backed off on their DMCA threat,...

Pwning your life

by Nancy Sims, MTTLR Blog editor”Void your warranty, violate a user agreement, fry a circuit, blow a fuse, poke your eye out…”So exhorts a t-shirt on sale from Make magazine. They also sell shirts with slogans like “If you can’t open it,...