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#Registration laws were originally intended as an inventory of noncitizens in the country, Morawetz said. But once govt officials obtained that info, they used it to aid the #detention of #Japanese Americans during WWII & #Muslims after the Sept 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

“Registration laws have a very, very bad history in terms of what they have meant when they have been fully enforced,” she said.

Copyright madness: YouTube seems to doubt whether Shakespeare is in the public domain

One of the darker threads of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) is how complex copyright enforcement systems can be abused, for example by sending Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown requests for material that is perfectly legal. A recent post on the Public Citizen blog offers an extreme example of this blight. Here’s the summary of what happened:

When […]

#counternotice #dmca #google #infringement #nonProfit #publicDomain #registration #shakespeare #takedown #usCopyrightOffice #youtube

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For people a little distant from the topic, a decent description of #preregistration and #registration.

The criticisms mostly seem of the "not all injuries are prevented by seatbelts and I might get trapped" flavor.

In reality the main problem may be that researchers don't live 36-hour days, try though they generally do. Adding work that seems peripheral in a context of personal honesty is a hard choice.

That and who pays for the infrastructure, over decades.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preregis

en.wikipedia.orgPreregistration (science) - Wikipedia

A morass of conflicted objectives, careless curation. Human nature with all of its sublime and ridiculous features.

Ideally Graham's article would have touched on #preregistration, #registration. With these on hand there would be much less murk and much more light. It's a missed object lesson.

Parenthetically I happen to look at a lot of scientific reports each week, for reasons. There is a steady drumbeat of author-instigated retractions. Good to bear that in mind.

theatlantic.com/magazine/archi

The Atlantic · The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting BiggerBy Daniel Engber