links for 2008-01-03

“An outspoken Saudi blogger is being held for “purposes of interrogation,” the Saudi Interior Ministry confirmed Tuesday. … the blogger, Fouah al-Farhan, was “being questioned about specific violations of nonsecurity laws.””

Last year, Stacy Snyder, 25, was dismissed from the student teaching program at a nearby high school and denied her teaching credential after the school staff came across her photograph on her MySpace profile.

Lawrence Lessig corrects some misunderstandings held by ASCAP(American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers ) in their recent stance on CC licenses.

“Illegal downloads of videos continue to grow, with Australians increasingly pirating new US shows well before they ran downunder. … Television series Heroes was last year’s most popular television program with 2,439,154 downloads”