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Is Old Licensed Software Legal Kryptonite? Lessons from the Adobe Letter.
May 26, 2019
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Not Your (Software) Lawyer
SPN News
Oh hello! I’m Brandon Butler, the Law and Policy Advisor for SPN, and this is a new regular-ish blog feature called I am Not Your (Software) Lawyer. The name is apt, because although I am indeed a lawyer, I am not your lawyer! I’ll be writing here about general topics in the […]
Google v. Oracle: A Landmark Software Copyright Case
January 7, 2020
SPN News
Post written by: Brandon Butler, SPN’s Law & Policy Advisor This term the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Oracle v. Google, a major software copyright case. SPN members should keep a close watch on this case, as it could shape the scope of copyright protection for software as well […]
Field Report: Introducing Dr. Amelia Acker
January 31, 2019
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FCoP News
Field Reports
About Dr. Acker Amelia Acker (PhD, University of California, Los Angeles) is an assistant professor in the iSchool at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests focus on the emergence, standardization, and preservation of new forms of data created with mobile information and communication technologies. Currently, she is […]
Field Report #5: University of Virginia
November 20, 2019
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FCoP News
Field Reports
Post written by: Amelia Acker, FCoP Project Researcher, Assistant Professor in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin University of Virginia: Keeping Software Present with Emulation in the Archives It’s been a few months since my last fieldwork visit for the FCoP project! In August, I was hosted […]
Field Report #4: GeorgiaTech retroTECH
August 18, 2019
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FCoP News
Field Reports
Post written by: Amelia Acker, FCoP Project Researcher, Assistant Professor in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin Second Site Visit: GeorgiaTech Hi y’all, In July I visited the Georgia Tech Library’s Retrocomputing Lab also known as retroTECH! Located in the Special Collections and Archives unit, this lab’s […]
Field Report #3: Living Computers: Museum + Labs
July 15, 2019
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FCoP News
Field Reports
Post written by: Amelia Acker, FCoP Project Researcher, Assistant Professor in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin First Site Visit: LCM+L Two weeks ago I visited the Living Computers: Museum + Labs in Seattle, Washington. LCM+L is a computing technology museum that features an impressive collection of […]
Field Report #2: Methods, preparation, and tools
July 3, 2019
FCoP
FCoP News
Field Reports
Post written by: Amelia Acker, FCoP Project Researcher, Assistant Professor in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin Hello friends In preparation for my first field site visit next week for the FCoP project I’m gathering supplies, resources, and tips for the next few months of visits and […]
Field Report #1: IRB Approval and Planning Site Visits
May 9, 2019
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FCoP News
Field Reports
Post written by: Amelia Acker, FCoP Project Researcher, Assistant Professor in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin Hi Y’all Today I am excited to share with you my first field report as the designated FCoP researcher with updates about kicking off fieldwork this summer. Before I jump […]
FCoP Update October – November 2019
November 20, 2019
FCoP News
Stacktrace
Post written by: Zach Vowell and Matt Shultz FCoP Reflections Blog Post Series: Continuing our FCoP Reflections Blog Post Series, we are happy to share posts from Georgia Tech and University of Illinois: Wendy Hagenmaier of Georgia Tech writes about skunkworks in the library, building bridges between data and metadata […]
FCoP Update Nov 2018 – Jan 2019
January 30, 2019
FCoP News
Stacktrace
FCoP Cohort Activities Emulation Sandbox Testing With the FCoP projects well under way at 6 different locations across the country, many groups are engaging with the complexities of software emulation and the EaaS platform since September 2018. The cohort shares an EaaS issue tracker with predefined issues categories including UI […]