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Can I Use that Picture? The Terms, Laws, and Ethics for Using Copyrighted Images

Can I Use that Picture? The Terms, Laws, and Ethics for Using Copyrighted Images. This is neat little flow chart. The fair use questions are a bit too simplistic for most of though. It’s sadly a lot more complex that its made out to be in here.

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Inventories of war: soldiers’ kit from 1066 to 2014 – Telegraph

Inventories of war: soldiers’ kit from 1066 to 2014 – Telegraph. This is a fun photo series, and could actually useful in a class I’m working with in the fall.

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Academic Reading of the day

This is an older article that deals with how historian approach looking for primary materials. I think some of the results are still valid, but it is over 11 years old. 

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Jonathan Israel Response to Lynn Hunt’s Review | New Republic

It’s fun to watch scholars duke it out in public. Jonathan Israel Response to Lynn Hunt's Review | New Republic.

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Birdman Trailer

 

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Today’s Academic Reading

This a great article that starts dealing with how archives have been involved with institutional repositories to date.    

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So It Really Is All About Sex Then, Rod? « The Dish

So It Really Is All About Sex Then, Rod? « The Dish.

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Valley of the Dolls

I watched this shot documentary this morning, and couldn’t help but approach it as an act of memorialization for a dying community.  

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Welcome to the Finger-Wagging Olympics

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Do You Reverse

Apparently there are two versions of the video of Flannery O’Connor with you backwards walking chicken. The Pathe News Reel company created two versions of this news reel. One entitled “Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse” appeared to be for the american market. This video is available without sound in the Flannery O’Connor Collection in the […]