Yesterday, Chris Blattman linked to an interesting, clever new paper by Miguel et al.:
Published March 16, 2011
Marc F. Bellemare Posts
Published March 15, 2011
Copyright Trolling: Pot, Meet Kettle
A few weeks ago, in a post on fair use in the blogosphere, I wrote:
“In my view, social norms in the blogosphere indeed represent a departure from the fair use doctrine, although I am not aware of actual court cases where a blogger has been accused of breaching copyright law. If someone knows of such a case, I’d be interested to hear about it in the comments.”
It turns out that there are such cases. Last weekend, The Atlantic‘s Megan McArdle wrote about “copyright trolling”:
Published March 15, 2011
Disaster Preparedness in Japan
The official death toll from the tsunami that hit Japan last Friday now stands at around 2,400. The estimated death toll from the earthquake that hit Haiti on January 12, 2010 lies between 92,000 and 316,000.
The Atlantic has an interesting article exploring might account for that difference: