It’s been a couple weeks…but the Friday Roundup is back. Ready?

• Wired: The right-wing hater machine gunning for Obama Larry Lessig? [Also at AT] Why won’t they just let Jesus be fabulous?
  
• LAist: Headline I’ve been waiting my whole life to read - Justine Bateman, ‘Drunk College Students’ Team Up to Save the Internet.
• So, this exists: Committee to Protect Bloggers.
• Ars Technica: Canada is not immune!
• Edge (Boston): Landmark Canadian gay bookstore going up for sale.
• BusinessWeek: Does she look like a music pirate? [via]
• Save The Internet: “Piracy” = smoke screen.

And additionally, out of my own excitement, Michael Zimmer is joining the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Information Studies, where I am currently a graduate student. He had some pretty rad things to say about it…

Happy Weekending!

Sivacracy: Ben Stein and anti-science producers misunderstand copyright and evolution.

Misunderstand being a very, very generous way of putting it.

Ars Technica: Big Content in worldwide “whisper campaign” against Fair Use.

This is why fair use (and tumblr) rules: garfield minus garfield. [via]

American University’s Center for Social Media, along with the school’s Washington College of Law, has recently released this interesting study: Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated Video.

The afore-linked-to summary of the study does a great job of breaking down - and providing examples of - the many faces of fair use.

It also uses one of my personal favorite terms: “participatory media.” The creative (and occasionally brilliant) ways people have found to “talk back” to the content that is handed down to them never cease to amaze me.

Similarly, the ways in which corporate interests try to shut that dialogue down never really surprise me.

[via Sivacracy]