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2014/08/282014/08/28

Stephen E. Arnold: Free Law Textbooks — and the Fight to Liberate Intellectual Property Law from Entrenched Corporations with Armed with Lobbyists

Free Law Textbooks Challenge Copyright Maximalism

August 28, 2014

The article titled Duke Professor Looking To Make Legal Texts Affordable; Kicking Off With Intellectual Property Law on Techdirt refers to the work of James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins. Both work in the Center of the Study of Public Domain at Duke Law School and hoped to mitigate the prices of textbooks for college students. They have already released their Intellectual Property Statutory Supplement (free to download, about $10 to print). They are quoted in the article,

“We are motivated in part by the outrageously steep cost of legal teaching materials, (and the increasing restrictions on those materials — such as the removal of the right of first sale). This book is intended for use with our forthcoming Intellectual Property casebook (coming in the Fall) but can also be used as a free or low cost supplement for basic Intellectual Property courses — at the college, law school or graduate school levels.”

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2014/08/28

SchwartzReport: 17,000 Police Agencies in the USA, All of Them Concealing How Many People — Generally Black — They Kill Each Year…

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Law Enforcement, Officers Call

Today's news brought yet more stories of police shootings of people whose only real crime seems to be being black. It made me wonder how many people are killed by the police each year. It turns out that is a very hard number to pin down. So I went looking to see if anyone had written something recently about this! . Here's what I found. I was amazed to learn were have 17,000 different police agencies.

How Cops get Away With it: Why the Government can Read Your Emails, But Not Count Shooting Deaths
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON, Contributing Writer – Salon

Complete safety copy below the fold.

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2014/07/142014/07/13

Mini-Me: Pope on Catholic Priests Who Are Pedophiles — 2% (8,000) or More? 848 Defrocked, 2,572 in Isolation — How About 10%?

06 Family, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 11 Society

Huh?

Did Pope Francis really say 2% of Catholic clergy are pedophiles?

Lauren Raab

Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2014

An interview that credits Pope Francis as saying about 2% of Roman Catholic clerics are pedophiles stirred controversy Sunday, as the Vatican sought to raise questions about the article's accuracy and others called on the pope to take more action on the issue.

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At a United Nations hearing this year, the Vatican said it had defrocked 848 priests over the last decade and ordered 2,572 to “live a life of prayer and penance” because of abuse allegations. There are about 414,000 Roman Catholic priests worldwide, according to the BBC; if 2% are pedophiles, that would be more than 8,000.

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2014/07/142014/07/14

Berto Jongman: Pedophilia Cover-Up by Margaret Thatcher, Broad Loss of Public Trust in Key Institutions, Victims Against MPs Coming Out

06 Family, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Civil Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Law Enforcement

Margaret Thatcher ‘personally covered up' child abuse allegations against senior ministers

The Tory Prime Minister is said to have held a meeting with a rising star, who was tipped for promotion, and told him: “You have to clean up your sexual act”

The extraordinary claims. … go to the very heart of claims that there was an Establishment cover-up to protect politicians , judges and police officers involved in a sick paedophile network.

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2014/07/142014/07/13

Berto Jongman: Pedophilia Today – “Natural and Normal” Say UK Academics — While Baroness Investigator Caught Covering Up for a Bishop Pedophile

06 Family, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 11 Society

‘Paedophilia is natural and normal for males'

How some university academics make the case for paedophiles at summer conferences

EXTRACT

The statement that paedophilia is “natural and normal” was made not three decades ago but last July. It was made not in private but as one of the central claims of an academic presentation delivered, at the invitation of the organisers, to many of the key experts in the field at a conference held by the University of Cambridge.

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2014/07/112014/07/08

Berto Jongman: Pedophilia Update – UK Elites Used Care Home Network Like an Amazon Order System for Children to Abuse

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UK Establishment Used Care Home Network Like an Amazon Order System for Children to Abuse

Scriptonite Daily / 1 day ago

For decades, vulnerable children from care homes and other institutions were booked to order by rich and powerful men, for abuse, rape and even murder. This is the allegation put forward in ‘Nightmares at Elm Guest House’, in an interview with Chris Fay of the National Association for Young People in Care. While the game may be over for former Tory Home Secretary, and David Cameron’s £500-a-day Trade Advisor Leon Brittan – once Brittan falls, the full and almost unbelievable horror of this case must come to light.

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Pedophilia @ Phi Beta Iota

2014/07/082014/07/06

Berto Jongman: Child abuse ‘may well have been’ covered up – Norman Tebbit

06 Family, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Security

Child abuse ‘may well have been' covered up – Norman Tebbit

A former cabinet minister has said there “may well have been” a political cover-up of child sex abuse in the 1980s.

Lord Tebbit told the Andrew Marr Show the culture at the time was to protect “the establishment” rather than delving “too far” into such claims.

His comments come after it emerged that the Home Office could not locate 114 potentially relevant files. Current MP Keith Vaz said files had been lost “on an industrial scale”.

The government has rejected calls for an over-arching public inquiry into the various allegations of child abuse from that era.

However, a new review, to be carried out by a senior legal figure from outside Whitehall, will look into a Home Office review last year of any information it received in the 1980s and 1990s about organised child sex abuse.

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