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Washington Post Shuts Down Comments Section of Blog Site

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on January 20, 2006 - 2:51am.
Washington - The Washington Post has "indefinitely" shut down the comments section of its online "post.blog" site after angry readers bombarded the forum with comments regarding a column by the newspaper's ombudsman. Deborah Howell wrote on Sunday that lobbyist Jack Abramoff, the target of a Congressional bribe investigation, gave made "substantial campaign contributions to both major parties." The column prompted an outcry from many readers, who flooded the site with what the Post called personal attacks and profanity. "We have shut off comments on this blog indefinitely," wrote Jim Brady, the executive editor of washingtonpost.com, in a message to online readers at 4:15 p.m. Thursday. "It's a shame that it's come to this." Brady said that the paper is "not giving up on the concept of having a healthy public dialogue with our readers, but this experience shows that we need to think more carefully about how we do it."
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Copyright Office Solicits Comments on Anti-Circumvention Exceptions

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 4, 2005 - 2:57am.
Washington - The U.S. Copyright Office has requested public comments on whether a provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that prohibits the circumvention of piracy protections has any adverse effects on users attempting to make "fair use" of certain works for non-infringing purposes. The Librarian of Congress is empowered to exempt certain classes of works from the anti-circumvention provision. The Copyright Office invited copyright owners, educational institutions, libraries and archives, scholars, researchers, and members of the public to submit comments by Dec. 1.
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