Sony Erases Digital Content From Libraries

Wired – a Reminder That You Don’t Own What You Buy: “Sony recently informed its PlayStation customers in the United Kingdom that they will no longer be able to watch previously purchased movies and shows from production and distribution company StudioCanal. As of September 1, affected customers will no longer be able to stream 551 …

Subjects: Intellectual Property, Internet, Legal Research, Libraries

There Is No Going Back’: The Inside Story of Europe’s Rupture With America.

WSJ Gift Article: “This article is the first of two parts. “We are drawing a line here,” began Emmanuel Macron, president of France, according to several leaders present and their most senior aides. For a year, America’s closest allies had tried to placate Trump with a mix of flattery and concessions on mutual-defense and trade …

Subjects: Congress, Defense, Government Documents, Legal Research

If you use Google, you’re training its AI. Here’s how to opt out.

TechCrunch: “Consider this a belated PSA: A recent change to Google’s privacy settings is allowing the company to store more of your data, including media such as “images, files, and audio and video recordings,” to improve its AI models. In other words, if you upload any media to Google’s Search services, it’s being used to …

Subjects: E-Records, Internet, Privacy, Search Engines

Listen to Britain’s dawn chorus of 1976: the dramatic loss of birdsong in 50 years

The Guardian: “…despite the obvious devotion of the most renowned literary voices of the last two centuries, the “chee chew chee chew” of the nightingale, the twittering of the house martin and the voice of the song thrush are heard no more in gardens, yards and balconies across many parts of Britain. In the last …

Subjects: Climate Change, Environmental Law

LightningMaps.org

LightningMaps.org is an additional service to the main project Blitzortung.org [A worldwide, real-time, community collaborative lightning location network.] For general questions about this project and for ordering the necessary hardware have a look at the appropriate documentation, FAQs and instructions before contacting us. Also, the discussion board is a good place for all questions and …

Subjects: Climate Change, Environmental Law

The Biodiversity Heritage Library

The Guardian: “”Over the past 20 years, more than 64m pages have been made freely available through the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) – a digital treasure trove for fans of the natural world. More than 680 museums, universities, libraries and scientific institutions from China, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand to Europe, Africa, Mexico, Canada and …

Subjects: Climate Change, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries