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Shop Talk: Hyde Park Benefits from U. of Chicago’s Deep Pockets

December 2, 2011, 6:54 am

By Lawrence Biemiller

Friday, December 2, 2011

Northwestern U. Qatar campus renderingNorthwestern U. has broken ground for a 350,000-square-foot facility in Education City in Doha, Qatar. The limestone-clad structure, designed by Antoine Predock, will house the university’s Qatar-based communication, journalism and liberal-arts programs. It is to open in 2014. (Northwestern U. image)

Gates-Hillman complex photo• Carnegie Mellon U. Earns LEED Gold for Gates-Hillman Computer-Science Complex (Chronicle photograph; read more about the complex here)

• U. of Chicago Helps Out With a $134-Million Retail, Office, and Hotel Project

• Los Angeles Prosecutors Investigate 2 Community-College-District Contractors

• U. of North Carolina at Charlotte Will Start Work on $37-Million Research Facility for Companies

 

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  • jamie23

    Or maybe best ‘person’ for the job?

  • willynilly

    I do hope there are solid reasons, other than this man’s union affiliation, to remove him from the Regents. I am not a fan of unions, but conversely I am not an enemy. They are just a part of the process – as are so many other players. But I do think it is a mistake to keep waving a red flag in the face of a large bull. Eventually it will awaken and then look out – chaos will follow. Is this what we really voted for?

  • panthernation

    Exactly. That rag of conservativism the New York Times is even worse. The headline from Nov. 7, 2006 was: “Democrats Seize Control of House; Senate Hangs on Virginia and Montana.” The conservativism of the NYT is even in the HEADLINES!!!
    Seriously, this is one of the great things about modern conservatives, they even see rather common and traditional uses of language as out to get them.

  • 11126724

    Let’s hear it for the demise of public higher education in Minnesota! Everything these wackos touch turns to something,, but its not gold…

  • d_fevens

    “From the fact that no owner has surfaced to challenge Columbia’s action, I’d say that it made the right call.”

    With all due respect Sandy, I see nothing “right” about Columbia’s action as reported in the article. It will take just one owner to come forward to assert his rights to discredit the program. I am not a lawyer, but it would seem to me that the university’s “disclaimer asking rights holders to get in touch if they object” is an admission that their digitization of in-copyright works is wrong. How does Columbia University come by the right to define “orphan works”?

  • mbelvadi

    Social Security Death Index? Does it include the specific terms of the person’s will or results of any probate court? Remember that the copyright in the US does not end with the death of the author, but passes down to their heirs for 70 years – that could require not only researching who inherited the author’s IP assets, but quite possibly even who inherited the IP assets from THAT heir when they die! What is needed is for Congress to clarify what a “good faith” effort is for a non-profit reproduction of a work (or for copyright to expire with the death of the author). No library has the legal resources to engage in probate-court research for even a single work, and libraries are interested in doing this on the scale of thousands of works.

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