エブリスタ、コンテンツ投稿サイト「E★エブリスタ」のAndroidアプリを提供

ディー・エヌ・エー（DeNA）の子会社であるエブリスタは11月26日、総合コンテンツ投稿サイト「E★エブリスタ」の小説とコミックを閲覧できるAndroidアプリを提供開始した。

　E★エブリスタは、ケータイ小説をはじめ、コミックやイラスト、写真、レシピ、俳句などの作品を投稿したり、閲覧したりできるサイト。一般クリエイターによる「投稿作品」のほか、松本零士氏、高橋陽一氏、倉田真由美氏などのプロ漫画家による新作オリジナルコミックや、有川浩氏、山田悠介氏ら人気作家の新作小説など、有料の「プレミアム作品」も読むことができる。

Scott Brown on Shame and the Internet Age

First and foremost, I’m sorry. For what, I’m not entirely sure, but I know I will come up with something. Mostly, I’m sorry because sorry is the thing to be: We live in a Sorry Age. Public apologies used to be the exclusive realm of celebrities, politicians, and corporations — the intern humpers and oil dumpers of the world — and we, the little folk, were the scandal connoisseurs and redemption dispensers: They screwed up, and we got to (a) feel briefly superior and (b) judge the sincerity of their apologias. But in a world of constant, ambient, thought-speed communication, there are no more Humilerati. Apologies are no longer a luxury market; they’re going retail, and fast. The flip side of Anyone Can Be a Celebrity is Everyone’s a Candidate for the Stocks.

After all, you don’t need talent, wealth, or power to post something offensive, not safe for work, or simply indiscreet and impolitic in a status update: Average Joes and Janes have been fired for just such indiscretions. You don’t have to travel with an army of paparazzi to end up with embarrassing and/or ass-baring photographs tagged to your profile. (How to preserve that lucrative endorsement deal with Your Mom in the wake of the table-dancing montage uploaded by some skeezy dude you met at ladies’ night?) You’re always one “hilarious” or “irreverent” or “edgy” or “spontaneous” tweet away from needing @bsolution just as much as Kanye does. In a self-surveilled society, when all of our half-cocked antics are shared with, at minimum, a few hundred people, every miscalculated bon mot, whoopsie up-skirt TwitPic, and awkward late-night revelation can have you spending the rest of your day playing out that all-too-familiar celebrity-crisis script: evade, laugh it off, spin, apologize, spin some more, then change your profile photo to a picture of a kitten and go dark until it eventually blows over.

And that’s just the garden-variety stuff. Thanks to instant distribution, a personal scandal can occasionally engulf the entire globe. You don’t need a famous name, or any name, or even a face. Last summer, a random Briton tossed a cat in a trash can while an out-of-focus security camera looked on; the righteous trolls at 4chan found Cat-Trashing Lady within a day and led the public to her door, literally, via Google maps. (An apology followed within 24 hours.) Much the same thing happened to Girl in a Red Hoodie, who was videotaped throwing puppies into a river: In a stunning reversal of the peasant-celebrity scandal food chain, no less a Hollywood eminence than Michael Bay demanded the puppy-drowner be brought to justice, and he offered a handsome reward for any information leading to her arrest.

違反動画の抜け道ふさぐYouTubeのシステム--検出率99％超

グーグルは11月24日、動画共有サイト「YouTube」で提供されている著作権管理サービスの仕組みを紹介した。

　現在、YouTubeには1分間に35時間分の動画が投稿されているという。これらの動画の著作権を管理する上で課題となるのが、「膨大な数の動画のコントロール」と「動画の権利者の把握」だ。

　YouTubeではサービス開始当初、これらの課題に対し、著作権違反動画を繰り返し投稿するユーザーのIDを削除する「3ストライク」、申告を受けて削除された動画のハッシュ値と同一の動画を2度と投稿できない「MD5ハッシュ」などの技術で対応してきた。また、権利者が複数の動画の一括削除をYouTubeに依頼できるツールも提供していた。しかし、動画が加工されてしまうと、MD5ハッシュでは検知できないという新たな課題も発生していた。


「コンテンツIDシステム」の仕組み
　そこで2007年10月14日に提供開始されたのが、権利者が自身のコンテンツを発見して管理できる「コンテンツIDシステム」だ。権利者がYouTubeのバックエンド上に動画を登録し、同一の動画をユーザーが投稿できないように設定することで、該当動画の投稿をブロックできる。映像は連続した写真（1秒30フレーム）で構成されており、コンテンツIDシステムではこれらのフレームに含まれる光の要素の変化を数値化している。加工されていた動画であっても、光の変化によって数値が合致するため検出できるという。

　投稿をブロックされたユーザーには、権利者によってブロックされたという旨のメールが届き、権利者にもブロックした結果のレポートが届く。また権利者は、世界255の地域別に動画の公開範囲をコントロールできる（例えば、米国では公開するが、日本では公開しないなど）。

のべ1152本のソフトを違法コピー--総額1億9700万円で和解成立

ジネス ソフトウェア アライアンス（BSA）は、東京都所在のソフトウェア開発会社（A社）がビジネスソフトウェアの著作権を侵害していた問題について、総額1億9716万5214円を支払うことでBSAメンバー企業と和解したと発表した。

　本件は、BSAが組織内違法コピーの問題解決のため設置している情報提供窓口への通報が端緒となり発覚。A社の著作権侵害が発覚した後、BSAメンバー企業の依頼でA社が実施した社内調査の過程で、「Adobe Acrobat」や「AutoCAD」「Microsoft Office」「Symantec AntiVirus」など、のべ1152本にのぼる違法コピーが発見された。

Tools for rooting out Web plagiarism, copyright violations

Some misguided souls in the Internet publishing world still consider all online material as being in the public domain. A recent example of this cluelessness is the editor of a food journal who stole an article that included a recipe for apple pie and then claimed to be doing the article's author a favor by reprinting it without the author's permission or any remuneration, as described by Helen A.S. Popkin on the MSNBC.com TechnoLog.

For the record, copyrights do indeed extend to material created for and posted to the Internet. Online publisher Brad Templeton's article, 10 Big Myths About Copyright Explained, actually covers 11 misapprehensions about online copyrights. The article was originally written in 1994 and was updated in October 2008. The page includes a succinct description of fair use and points out the importance of intent and potential damage to the original work.

Schools have been at the forefront of plagiarism prevention. By scanning student papers via services such as Turnitin, schools can determine the originality of the material. Turnitin also provides a peer review and assistance with grading. Students can check their own work by using Turnitin's WriteCheck service, which costs from $5 for one paper up to 5,000 words to $50 for one paper up to 200,000 words or 40 single-paper credits.

According to a study released last January by the National Bureau of Economic Research (PDF), fear of detection may not be the best approach to preventing plagiarism among students. The results of the study indicate that educating students about the importance of academic integrity and what constitutes plagiarism is the most effective deterrent.

In an interview on the Inside Higher Ed site, Swarthmore College Associate Professor of Economics Thomas S. Dee says the educational approach to plagiarism prevention is more effective than either the "moral suasion approach" or the "law-and-order approach." However, Dee points out that few teachers currently consider educating students about plagiarism to be one of their "core responsibilities."

Nope, Fox doesn't want Google TV either

Fox executives didn't reject the offering as soon as the other networks because it was evaluating the platform, the sources said. Now that the evaluation is over, the feeling at Fox was that Google's "footprint was too small," said one source, meaning that Google TV had yet to develop a large enough user base to make it worthwhile for the broadcaster. Fox also blocks Google TV competitor, Boxee, which also has struggled to develop a significant following.

Be that as it may, there's little doubt about why the networks rejected Google TV, which went live last month. They fear streaming Web content to viewers' televisions, will hurt existing revenue streams, such as ad-supported broadcasts or cable TV subscriptions.