Day archives: July 7th, 2026

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

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