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...#institutionalized #learning leeches coin by hiding quick practical skills behind lengthy groups of impractical and unnecessary #required #studies

...no need to know the history of lamps or circuitry to learn to wire a home

...no need to know the lines of french architecture to build a house

...nor is it important to the process in any way!

but sure adds obstacle courses lectures hours and books to pay for that somehow improve niether salaries grounds building or quality of #education

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Why Does the U.S. Copyright Office Require Libraries to Lie to Users about Their Fair Use Rights? They Won’t Say. - The Scholarly Kitchen

The notice that libraries are #required by #law to provide you is #false and misleading.

In fact, you have the exact same rights in copies provided by the library that you do in copies made elsewhere.

Title 17, Section 107 of the U.S. Code. It describes limitations on the exclusive rights of copyright holders, making clear that despite the general exclusivity of those rights, users of copyrighted documents are nevertheless allowed to make limited uses of those documents that might otherwise infringe on the exclusivity of the copyright holder’s prerogatives. The law introduces fair use as follows:

The fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.

So why are libraries required by the current federal statute to mislead you in this way?

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/20

The Scholarly KitchenWhy Does the U.S. Copyright Office Require Libraries to Lie to Users about Their Fair Use Rights? They Won’t Say.The copyright warning notice prescribed by the US Copyright Office misleads library patrons about their fair use rights, and must change.

@M_U @maxkennerly

#Kacsmaryk did not say in his email that he had already been interviewed for a judgeship by his state’s two senators and was awaiting an interview at the White House.

As part of that process, he was #required to list all of his published work on a questionnaire submitted to the #Senate #Judiciary #Committee, including “books, articles, reports, letters to the editor, editorial pieces, or other published material you have written or edited.”

His article, titled “#The #Jurisprudence #of #the #Body,” was published in September 2017 by the Texas Review of Law and Politics, a right-leaning journal that Kacsmaryk had led as a law student at the University of Texas.

But Kacsmaryk’s role in the article was not disclosed, nor did he list the article on the paperwork he submitted to the Senate in advance of confirmation hearings in which Kacsmaryk’s past statements on LGBT issues became a point of contention.

'Indentured servitude': Nurses hit with hefty debt when trying to leave hospitals

When Jacqui Rum quit her nursing job at Los Robles Regional Medical Center last fall over the heavy workload and low staffing levels, it came with a high price — a $2,000 bill from her former employer for training costs.

The payment was related to a #contract Rum was #required to sign when she took the job at the Thousand Oaks, California, hospital owned by HCA Healthcare, the nation’s largest for-profit hospital chain.

Under the agreement, which is #standard for #entry-#level #nurses working at HCA hospitals and becoming increasingly standard for other health systems, Rum agreed to #pay #back the hospital for #training if she quit or was fired before her two-year contract expired

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NBC News'Indentured servitude': Nurses hit with hefty debt when trying to leave hospitalsBy Shannon Pettypiece