“The indirect costs in higher education (through delays and difficulties in clearing rights) are very hard to estimate. [SCONUL has] attempted an estimate of the static costs in higher education and have arrived at a minimum figure of the order of 30 M/year.” [emphasis added]
Source: SCONUL (Society of College, National and University Libraries) submission [...]
7 (8 for genre) out of 10. Sharp, witty, and frequently very very funny this “romantic” comedy also managed be both poignant and insightful about the nature of relationships without ever becoming cloying. Overall a really brilliant example of its genre.
6/10 (8/10 for genre). Good SF thriller, which transports a Count of Monte Cristo like tale of a man avenging his wrongs into a world of ‘jaunting’ (the ability to transport oneself from one place another by thought).
7.5/8 out of 10. A debut feature from director Niall Heery this is a wonderful ‘small’ film about the dysfunctional lives and friendship of three middle-aged men in rural Ireland. Tightly plotted, well acted and beautifully put together this film punches far above its weight.
Back in March Lillian Edwards was kind enough to ask me to come and give a talk about ‘open knowledge’ at a Law and Web 2.0 conference she was planning for the Autumn. As a result, yesterday I found myself at Herbert Smith’s London offices for the SCL’s “Law 2.0? : New Speech, New Property, [...]
The Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA), a lobbying group for technology companies, has put out a report entitled Fair Use in the U.S. Economy. The report generates larges numbers:
The research indicates that the industries benefiting from fair use and other limitations and exceptions make a large and growing contribution to the U.S. [...]
8.5. Another brilliant novel though not quite reaching the perfection of Middlemarch. Its only defects to my mind, were a tendency to over-idealize rural life and becoming a little sententious when putting together the `happy ending’ post Hetty’s transportation.
Last week someone pointed me a paper of Angus Deaton’s (released in July) entitled Income, aging, health and wellbeing around the world: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll. As the title indicates, it uses a cross-country dataset from Gallup to look at well-being and its relation to income, age and health (I note that [...]
7/10. A well-above average work largely thanks to the excellent dialogue and acting (the central performance from Harrelson is particularly good). Unfortunately the film fails to fully deliver on its noirish thriller potential — fading out just the excitement starts to build and leaving the political corruption side of things sadly underexplored. With a larger [...]
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Dr. Rufus Pollock is co-Founder and Director of the Open Knowledge Foundation, a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow, and an Associate of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge.
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