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Content ID Still Just Piracy [Maria Schneider]
In this open letter to righsholders, Maria Schneider examines how Content ID, originally billed as a means of protecting copyright holders, has since transformed into way to make money off of ads placed on pirated content.
Guest Post by Maria Schneider on Music Technology Policy
Content ID, YouTube's digital fingerprinting technology, is under fire lately for very good reason. Originally touted by YouTube as an effective method of blocking illegal uploads, Content ID was ostensibly the service's way to protect copyright holders. But Content ID quickly morphed into a self-serving massive moneymaker. Their pitch goes something like this: "Hey, advertising is good for you. Why not use Content ID to cash in on all the piracy by getting a share of revenue we can generate from ad placement?" Well, they don't call it piracy – but make no mistake, in the end, their whole scheme still depends on a culture of piracy.
Since the media presents YouTube's misleading talking points without challenge, it's up to us to expose what's really going on. There's a lot to sift through when one digs deep, so bear with me. In the end, ask yourself if jumping on board, monetizing through YouTube's Content ID, makes us all complicit in perpetuating the piracy racket that YouTube created to make billions for itself.
1. YouTube's 3 Billion Figure is all Smoke and Mirrors
YouTube dangles Content ID and monetization in general in front of music creators to lure us to participate. YouTube's line is that if we jump on the monetization bandwagon, they'll share ad revenue with us. Sounds like a good deal, but YouTube's ad revenue has proven paltry when compared to the real cost of producing music. Like an Atlantic City casino, YouTube wants us to believe that we just might hit the jackpot. Stories of viral videos make the news and seem like the new brass ring for rights-holders, but this insightful article explains how rare "viral" is. And of the very, very few who achieve viral, who can sustain it and make a career of it?
The real truth is that most music creators on YouTube are making nothing or next to nothing from the use of their work. YouTube acknowledges that out of all people in the world with videos/music on its service, only 8000 "partners" qualify for Content ID. The rest of us can put ads on the videos we ourselves post, but likely the majority of us are never paid anything, not reaching the $100 threshold YouTube requires of us to receive the first check. And our own uploaded content is competing with pirated uploads of our music that we're left to police. The mountain of cash from all the music creators who haven't yet reached $100 must be creating one hell of a "float" for YouTube.
YouTube boasts of $3 billion in total payouts, but dig slightly below that surface, and you see a shameful number. They've admitted it's really less than $1 billion per year. And think about it: YouTube has over a billion users each month, and over 12 billion users a year, so do the math. The measure of fairness is not how much YouTube has paid out in total, but it's whether those who make the music that fuels YouTube's fortune are getting paid adequately. Here would be important questions to ask:
1. How many rights-holders are represented on YouTube? (That number must be astronomical, and likely impossible to calculate.)
2. How many rights-holders can actually pay for the budget of a record from revenue they receive from YouTube?
3. How many music creators never reach the $100 threshold?
4. Of all the music-rights-holders represented on YouTube, how many make even minimum wage on an ongoing basis, year after year, for their life's work that sits, year after year, on YouTube's massive servers?
Every musician knows that as long as music is available on YouTube for free, it won't likely sell very well elsewhere, especially with all the available apps that can rip mp3s right from YouTube videos into your personal library. And hey, what happened to the mechanical royalty for all of this, guys? (I'll be writing about that soon.) So, if YouTube is going to corrupt all other income streams for those who invest their lives and means into the making of music, then YouTube should at very least pay a living wage, right?
We've had plenty of time to test the ad model, and one thing is for certain: Ad revenue does not pay for the making of music – not even remotely close. The music industry should quit banging its head into that same wall looking for results. Face the facts folks – ads will never fuel the music economy.
2. YouTube Has Us Haggling Over Popcorn Prices, While They Walk Away With All the "Main Event" Revenue
While we're haggling over paltry ad revenue, we're diverted from the far greater value that is being generated from our music. Every month, our music drives billions of users to YouTube's platform, and the data that Google then gathers from following our fans around the web is where YouTube's true value lies. Google and Facebook didn't get their billion dollar valuations from ad revenue. YouTube's valuation largely comes from the mountains of hoarded data collected on the backs of all musicians and creators. Therefore, part of the value of the YouTube empire should fairly belong to musicians. Not only should musicians and creators share in the value of data gathered, but they should also have access to the data their creations generate. Why in the world is it fair for YouTube to keep all of this data as a "trade secret" when it's generated from our own fans, often through piracy YouTube expressly facilitates?
3. YouTube's Dirty Secret about Content ID
Content ID is available only to those whom YouTube chooses – and YouTube runs the place like an exclusive country club. The simple fact is that the vast majority of independent musician-rights-holders are not accepted into Content ID. I've received five GRAMMY® Awards, and even testified about the DMCA next to Google's counsel, Katherine Oyama, listening to her boast at length about the virtues of Content ID and its ability to block uploads. But when I came home from testifying in D.C. and applied for Content ID, I was denied. Content ID is reserved for big record companies with big catalogues, and probably selected independent artists whom YouTube believes will make YouTube a heap of money. And who even knows to what degree artists or companies with YouTube contracts are allowed to "block" uploads, as those contracts are under NDAs. Are we seriously to believe they'd permit independent artists to join, only to block their entire catalogue from being uploaded?
In the press, YouTube has fought back against the recent flood of criticism, saying that all rights-holders can access Content ID – that they can get it through "third-party vendors." These third party vendors often take between 20% to 50% of the revenue paid by YouTube—after YouTube takes its share. That means the rights-holder is paying two overpaid gatekeepers. So yes, it's available, but at a completely unreasonable premium. If big record companies are complaining about their bad revenue from YouTube, they should try being an independent musician, paying yet another middleman!
But here's the most relevant fact that YouTube keeps hiding: BLOCKING UPLOADS THROUGH CONTENT ID IS NOT AVAILABLE THROUGH THIRD PARTIES. The use they bragged about before Congress – that they imply is available to everyone – does not exist. The reason is obvious – without ad revenue, there's zero incentive for the third-party vendor or YouTube to partake. The third-party vendors would have to charge a fee big enough to pay YouTube and itself to simply block uploads. What a sick game that would be – paying some third-party company and YouTube to block the pirated uploads YouTube promotes.
Why can't a rights-holder protect his/her work from illegal exposure on YouTube according to his/her Constitutional right, and then go sell it where he/she wants, for the price he/she chooses to set? That's reasonable, right? Why is that such an unattainable dream for people like me and hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of my colleagues?
If an independent rights-holder wants to keep all their work off of YouTube and keep clear of YouTube's ad-based, piracy-driven, self-serving, dirty, lawless racket, he or she is screwed. Is there a single independent artist that YouTube has allowed access to Content ID for the sole purpose of "blocking" uploads? Katherine Oyama should stop the bragging about Content ID until her company makes it available to "every" rights-holder for blocking. And certainly, misleading Congress with false claims and self-aggrandizement in a Congressional hearing, and similarly misleading the American public through a calculated propaganda campaign, is in my opinion, deeply unethical.
4. Content ID Legitimizes Piracy – We Shouldn't Be Complicit
Music creators who succumb to the false appeal of "monetizing" on Content ID, or those whose record company has made that deal for them, have been swayed by YouTube's line of baloney that illegal uploads are good and aren't really illegal as long as YouTube offers a pittance from the ads they generate. Clearly, the infringement orgy YouTube has sponsored for so many years has brought independent musicians and record companies to their knees, as they accept bad deals to monetize the crumbs that are left on the floor from a devoured industry.
Our music industry's acceptance of the "monetization" tool from Content ID only serves to "legitimize" the piracy that YouTube systematically breeds. Monetization erases any last vestige of guilty-feeling-illegal-uploaders. Content ID actually makes them feel good about themselves as they upload to their hearts' content with zero inquiry. "Look! I'm making the artists money AND giving them needed exposure, AND I'm offering the public free music at the same time!"
I've heard this logic again and again from young people with bloated YouTube channels. We've all fallen into YouTube's trap: By making a deal with the devil, right-holders are basically condoning the piracy that has destroyed the music marketplace. Content ID monetization is steamrolling our Constitutional right to control our own creative works. We shouldn't buy into YouTube's piracy scheme for the few scraps it might offer.
5. Content ID Offers a Pathetic Deal
With a straight face, YouTube tells you and the media that they give 55% of ad revenue to the rights-holder and only keep 45%. But they calculate that percentage split after they first reimburse themselves for their own expenses, which they calculate behind their green curtain. So the 55% figure is not of gross income. An article by East Bay Ray explains that after YouTube pays itself about 37% for its expenses, rights-holders receive only about 35%. That's not a split, that's a fleecing.
YouTube's approach reeks of hypocrisy. Sure, YouTube has expenses. But has anyone discussedour expenses in making the recording? Costs should be figured on both sides. We all agree that when a potter sells a bowl, the price reflects the cost of clay, glaze, the kiln, firing, etc. When a clothing designer sells a pair of pants, the wholesale price covers the cost of fabric, thread, pattern design, etc. But YouTube, or rather, Google, the richest company in the world, wants us to accept a business model where the "price" they pay for our music has no rational relationship to the actual costs of making the music. Who cares about how much they say they pay out. Their site contains almost the entire world's library of music, and it's not even coming close to paying the cost of making that music. We invest all we have – time, talent, training, technology, and more. We have the right to expect a reasonable return on that investment. YouTube is an imperialist tycoon that is finger-flicking less than third world pay at musicians and the music industry for a product that YouTube shouldn't even have access to in the first place.
6. Who is Clearing all the Rights for Music on Content ID Anyway?
The answer is, probably no one. When a record company puts out a record, the record company (assuming the artist hasn't negotiated for ownership) likely owns the copyright to that recording. And if the record company has struck a Content ID deal with YouTube, chances are they will monetize the record. But what about the other copyright-holders? Likely there are songwriters whose works are represented on the record, too. Often there are several or more collaborators on any given song. So, what about their right to block uploads? Where are their royalties? How are they accounted? Are they accounted? Who asked for permission? Where is the transparency? This is happening to me, and my answers are: none, nowhere, not, no, no one, and none. YouTube is a jumbled, colossal rights violations mess that leaves independent rights-holders with the impossible task of doing DMCA takedowns, where YouTube publicly exposes our identities, leaving us open to repercussions from fans or record companies. The intimidation leads us to do nothing but accept the loss. There must be millions upon millions of such copyright violations on YouTube. Maybe that's why they don't allow all of us to have access to the Content ID blocking mechanism, because they fear most records would have some rights-holder that won't allow it to be monetized. Well, if there was economic incentive, that wouldn't be the case. Isn't that how a free market economy works?
7. YouTube's Use of Content ID is Un-American
Here are the bigger and broader questions for our industry and government. Why aren't musicians and creators allowed to be a part of the American free market, where we set our prices based on the cost of producing our own product? That's how manufacturing works in any freedom-loving country. Why can't a music creator set the valuation of his/her work in the same way one sells visual art? Why are the Department of Justice and government, (all of whom are tarnished by their whirling revolving doors with Google – read it!) who are setting most of our prices for us, doing so based on failed ad revenue models from usurious companies? Why are the DOJ and our government at large intent on propping up a bogus "freemium" model? And why are they blind to the simple fact that big data companies operate freemium ad-based models all to the greater end of gathering invaluable data to become the biggest player in the AI (artificial intelligence) race?
Why is the survival of theft-enabling, ineffective, ad-based internet businesses more valued than the future of music or livelihoods of musicians? Why are we collectively not screaming our bloody heads off? Our songs and music have shaped our culture and the world's culture for centuries. Music has brought people and cultures together, serving as the worlds' ambassador without fail: a voice for freedom, for the oppressed, for change, for comfort, for celebration, and for transformation.
Music creators should be treated like the valuable citizens of this country that we are. We should be allowed to set our own price at very least! We aren't the indentured servants of YouTube, here to make the Google empire rich and powerful. Given a fighting chance, the market would show how much our fans value our work, as it has for nearly a century. Taylor Swift and Adele proved exactly that with their quite recent releases that sold millions of good-old fashioned CDs at regular prices. But when we're forced to try and create that market in a society with a complicit government that's allowed copyright theft to run rampant, it's an almost impossible situation.
When YouTube serves the world mountains of pirated content on a silver platter without having to take a single step to stop the piracy, or Google is allowed to prioritize pirates in their 'search' algorithms (even after rights-holders send takedown notices), how could there ever be a true marketplace?
8. Without an Ability to Block Illegal Uploads with Content ID, We're All Screwed
For the vast majority of us that are unable to protect our music against piracy, we're stuck playing Whack-A-Mole with an outdated and anemic DMCA takedown process, fighting a tsunami of piracy from a company that does all they can to keep the flood-waters flowing.
So, let us ask ourselves as composers, songwriters, performers, producers, publishers, and record companies: are we willing to be complicit in this whole scheme, cementing piracy as an acceptable norm, all for the measly pocket lint they're offering us? I'd sooner fight piracy to the bitter end, and lose, than do that deal with the richest and scariest ("don't be evil") company on earth.
9. YouTube Should Lose Their "Safe Harbor" for Withholding "Standard Technical Measures"
The DMCA's safe harbor provision requires that companies like YouTube must ensure that "standard technical measures" "are available to any person on reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms" to identify and protect their copyrighted work. (17 U.S.C. Sec. 512(i).) YouTube is not allowed to discriminate as to who gets access to tools that have become "standard" in protecting copyright. If YouTube does discriminate, it is supposed to lose its safe harbor.
It's right in the DMCA. This is a point no one has yet pressed. Content ID has been around and used billions of times to make billions of dollars for years now. "Audible Magic" is available at a very reasonable price to any company wanting to offer blocking of illegal uploads. And on Audible Magic, content owners can upload their content for free. Apple has now created "iTunes Match," and Facebook is rolling out its own similar fingerprinting technology, so it's obvious that fingerprinting technology has become a "standard technical measure." YouTube can't deny it's become the core of their business. And, if they also tout that it's widely available through third parties, as they have in numerous publications, that suggests "standard," too. Digital fingerprinting is a standard technology that's now very accessible, it's just that YouTube stiff-arms most of us who want to use it to block pirated uploads. And most other sites that allow music uploads from their users, pretend like Audible Magic doesn't exist, because they don't want it to exist. And though the DMCA safe harbor provision requires YouTube (and all internet companies that also allow public uploads), to use the available fingerprinting technology, no one is yet enforcing this application of the law. It's high time.
YouTube reserving its copyright protection feature for hand-picked rights-holders, blocking the masses' ability to fully protect their Constitutional right, even though the technology is right there in YouTube's dirty fingers, is like denying a rope to a drowning person. Sounds like clear grounds to take away YouTube's "safe harbor" protections to me. It actually feels criminal by my own estimation, when you consider that the violated rights areConstitutional rights.
I wish record companies would step away from their Content ID contracts entirely, and fight a noble fight to enforce this statute in the DMCA that would protect all rights-holders equally, rather than being a complicit partner in the pathetic and dirty Content ID piracy racket.
10. Content ID Should Be Made "Open Source" for All Internet Platforms
People are starting to wake up to the dangers of allowing a company to amass such power from data and artificial intelligence (AI). There's a movement to quickly develop AI technology and algorithms as 'open source,' in an effort to keep a few all-powerful hipster tycoons from having AI power over the entire world. It's called Open AI, and many seriously talented scientists are flocking to it. Thank God there are a few people out there scared stiff by the power of those that are controlling AI.
Since Google's empire is built on the premise that "open" and "free content" is such a grand idea for us little folk, then it's high-time it puts its money where its mouth is, and make Content ID fingerprinting technology for blocking illegal uploads available to us little folk as "open source" too. YouTube likes to say how much it has spent developing Content ID, but that's exactly the point: if you won't share YOUR works with us for free because you want to recover YOUR investment, why should you expect us to give away our works for free, without having recovered OUR investment?
And YouTube, don't dictate how we rights-holders can use this now-standard technology. Let rights-holders use it as they wish – to block or to monetize – no NDA's, backroom deals, or intimidation. Let's make it all free and open, and see what a real marketplace looks like when we actually take measures to control infringement.
YouTube/Google wants the public to believe that certain "copyright" protection somehow harms the internet. But when their own trillions are made on their own "copyrighted" software, through their own "copyrighted" algorithms and databases, and through their own "trade secret intellectual property," they suddenly guard it like Fort Knox. Somehow, YouTube's and Google's own copyrights are "good," but musicians' copyrights are "bad."
Here's the simple truth: protecting copyright doesn't hurt the internet, it only hurts piracy. And in the final analysis, Content ID is really just another sneaky way for YouTube to get rich off of piracy, and to try to appear like they're throwing us a helping hand. It's underhanded and deceitful. We as a music industry shouldn't negotiate away the true value of our work out of desperation, giving way to the powerful grip of a racketeer (in my opinion) that just wants to keep us quiet.
Are you a performer, songwriter, composer, producer, or fan, who wants to to help protect the future of music? Sign on at musicanswers.org.
Read Maria Schneider's 'YouTube' Installment #1, YouTube, Pushers of Piracy


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A speech to the 55th reunion of the Harvard Law School class of 1958, October 26, 2013.
I graduated from Harvard Law School in 1967. Very early in my career, I represented many students in Administrative Board cases growing out of their protests against the Vietnam War. I represented (with Alan Dershowitz) one group of students accused by the Administrative Board of harassment for closely following the Harvard College Dean, Ernest May, 24 hours a day, chanting "murderer, murderer, murderer." Wherever the dean walked in Cambridge, he was followed. Dean May was consulting at the time for the Department of Defense. This is why the students followed him and chanted.
The College's Ad Board acquitted the students on academic freedom/free speech grounds, simply advising the students to keep a respectful distance from Dean May when they followed him. This would never happen today. The definition of "harassment" has very much swallowed up the concept of free speech and academic freedom.
By the mid-1980's, I noticed a distinct change in the culture of free speech and academic freedom throughout the entire country, but Harvard, and particularly Harvard Law School, was a pioneer in the slow death of these virtues.
The Harvard Law sexual harassment guidelines, 1996
My first public critique of the suppression of free speech at Harvard occurred in a 1996 Wall Street Journal op-ed, "Harvard Law Caves In to the Censors." HLS adopted, for the first time in its history, the Harvard Law School Sexual Harassment Guidelines, which deemed certain unpleasant speech to constitute actionable "harassment." This grew out of the publication of the annual Harvard Law Review April Fool's Day parody issue in 1992, the Harvard Law Revue. The satirical issue contained the infamous Frug parody: Mary Joe Frug, feminist legal scholar at Northeastern School of Law, was tragically and viciously murdered on the streets of Cambridge in 1991. As a memorial tribute to Professor Frug, the Harvard Law Review had published Professor Frug's unfinished draft article on feminist legal scholarship. The satirical Revue made fun of this piece in a highly insensitive parody that contained a warning on the cover that it was "highly insensitive."
Outrage was instant. HLS Dean Robert Clark at first resisted calls for censorship, but finally caved in, as did all but three faculty members attending the faculty meeting that approved adoption of the dean's "Harvard Law School Sexual Harassment Guidelines" that trenched on speech.
I wrote a protest to Dean Clark. He responded:
"Thank you for your letter . . . about your thoughts on the Harassment Guidelines. Your sentiments have been echoed in the faculty chambers along with many others. This discussion is a sign of the times, as is the need perceived among students that we have to discuss this or be seen as uncaring of their concerns.
The Guidelines remain in effect today. There cannot be another such parody at HLS involving gender; nor has there been.
Censorship of The Harbus, November 2002
The HarBusnewspaper ran a really rather tame cartoon in itsOct 28, 2002 issue, ridiculing the administration's operation of the HBS career office. Student editor-in-chief Nick Will was called to a meeting with Steven Nelson, executive director of the MBA Program, HBS Career Officer Matthew Merrick, HBS Senior Dean Walter Kester, and HBS Dean Kim Clark - all over a cartoon! Nelson threatened the student editor with disciplinary action, and so the editor resigned for fear of getting kicked out of the school.
The Harvard Crimson reported the story, which is how we know about it. Dean Kim Clark told the Crimson: "We do not want students to engage in discourse that hurts others," and the dean added that the coverage violated "HBS Community Standards."Finally, The HarBus News Corporation legal counsel opined that the criticism was "printable according to free speech laws," according to the Crimson. The HBS administrators retreated presumably in the face of legal advice.
The resignation of Lawrence Summers, 2005
I need not go into great detail about the incident that triggered the resignation of Larry Summers. Some say there were several reasons, including difficult personality traits that grated on some of the more pampered faculty members, or perhaps Summers' adamantly expressed views about subjects on which he was not a certified expert. But there can be no doubt that Summers' widely-reported remarks, at an academic conference held at Harvard on January 14, 2005, run by the National Bureau of Economic Research, was the key precipitating factor that led within a couple of weeks to his resignation after only some five years in the President's office.
What was Summers' error? He suggested that genetic differences between the sexes might in part account for women's underrepresentation in math, science, and engineering, and that research must be conducted to answer the hard questions and devise remedies. He should have known, however, that in the modern academy, it is no longer acceptable to speak honestly, even intelligently, about gender, race, sexual identity, or any other issue that has already been "decided" by entrenched orthodoxies - that these are no longer acceptable topics for rational discussion and debate, much less scientific research. It did not matter that Summers, in his speech, had actually called for research to be done in this area. His merely suggesting the possibility of a genetic difference between men and women in their ability to master certain fields was enough to bring him down.
Harvard's Richard Freeman, the economist whose invitation to Summers led to the speech that triggered the tumult, was quoted in a January 23, 2005 article in The New York Times to say that he had invited Summers specifically to speak in his capacity as a world-class economist rather than as an institutional leader, because, explained Freeman, had Summers been invited in his role as university president, "he would have given us the same type of babble that university presidents give." (This Freeman quotation alone is a sad comment on what has happened to our academic leaders.)
But the faculty revolt that forced Summers out of the Harvard presidency had grave consequences. The fact that the university president appeared to have been forced out of office because he uttered a controversial opinion was not lost on anyone in the Harvard community.
A student's private email on race and intelligence, April 2012
Stephanie Grace, 3L, had dinner with some classmates, at which the hot-button issue of race and intelligence apparently came up. When she returned to her room, she had some further thoughts that she emailed to the dinner participants. Here are excerpts from what she said:
I absolutely do not rule out the possibility that African Americans are, on average, genetically predisposed to be less intelligent. I could also obviously be convinced that by controlling for the right variables, we would see that they are, in fact, as intelligent as white people under the same circumstances....
I also don't think that there are no cultural differences or that cultural differences are not likely the most important sources of disparate test scores.... I would just like some scientific data to disprove the genetic position, and it is often hard given difficult to quantify cultural aspects.....
In conclusion, I think it is bad science to disagree with a conclusion in your heart, and then try (unsuccessfully, so far at least) to find data that will confirm what you want to be true. Everyone wants someone to take 100 white infants and 100 African American ones and raise them in Disney utopia and prove once and for all that we are all equal on every dimension, or at least the really important ones like intelligence. I am merely not 100% convinced that this is the case.
Please don't pull a Larry Summers on me. [Emphasis added.]
A recipient of this email apparently forwarded the email to others - I don't know the precise route - but it eventually landed on the desk of Law Dean Martha Minow. I do not know the details of whatever discussions Dean Minow had with 3L Stephanie Grace, but the results of those discussions were evident in separate messages disseminated, one by Ms. Grace and then one by Dean Minow, to the entire HLS community. Herewith are excerpts:
Stephanie Grace, in her email to the Black Law Students Association:
I am deeply sorry for the pain caused by my email. I never intended to cause any harm, and I am heartbroken and devastated by the harm that has ensued. I would give anything to take it back.
I emphatically do not believe that African Americans are genetically inferior in any way. I understand why my words expressing even a doubt in that regard were and are offensive.
I would be grateful to have an opportunity to share my thoughts and to apologize to you in person.
Even beforehand, I want to extend an apology to you and to anyone else who has been hurt by my actions.
Dean Minow, in turn, sent an email message addressed "Dear members of the Harvard Law School community." Here are excerpts from that email:
I am writing this morning to address an email message in which one of our students suggested that black people are genetically inferior to white people.
This sad and unfortunate incident prompts both reflection and reassertion of important community principles and ideals. We seek to encourage freedom of expression, but freedom of speech should be accompanied by responsibility. This is a community dedicated to intellectual pursuit and social justice. The circulation of one student's comment does not reflect the views of the school or the overwhelming majority of the members of this community.
As news of the email emerged yesterday, I met with the leaders of our Black Law Students Association to discuss how to address the hurt that this has brought to this community.... A troubling event and its reverberations can offer an opportunity to increase awareness, and to foster dialogue and understanding. The BLSA leadership brought this view to our meeting yesterday, and I share their wish to turn this moment into one that helps us make progress in a community dedicated to fairness and justice.
Here at Harvard Law School, we are committed to preventing degradation of any individual or group, including race-based insensitivity or hostility. The particular comment in question unfortunately resonates with old and hurtful misconceptions. As an educational institution, we are especially dedicated to exposing to the light of inquiry false views about individuals or groups.
I am heartened to see the apology written by the student who authored the email, and to see her acknowledgment of the offense and hurt that the comment engendered....
Martha Minow
The Harvard College Class of 2015 "Kindness" Pledge
The emanations from these incidents showed up at the start of the academic year in 2011 in quite another context. Dean of Freshmen Thomas Dingman announced that a "kindness pledge" would be posted in the entryway of every freshman residence hall, and each member of the Class of 2015 would be asked to sign the oath on a line designated for his or her signature. The pledge read, in part: "we commit to upholding the values of the College and to making the entryway and Yard a place where all can thrive and where the exercise of kindness holds a place on a par with intellectual attainment."[Emphasis added.] The Oath would remain posted in the entryway of each dorm all year, so that it would be visible, for all to see who in the class presumably valued kindness and who did not or, put another way, who was a good and righteous human being and who was not.
Perhaps Dean Dingman was not prepared for the reaction that quickly followed. Mind you, the "kindness oath" was aimed not just at influencing conduct, but at pressuring freshmen to adopt Dean Dingman's point-of-view on the relative importance of kindness, versus academic achievement, at a liberal arts institution of higher learning.
Most potently perhaps, Professor Harry Lewis, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, who served as Dean of Harvard College from 1995 until 2003, severely criticized Dean Dingman's initiative, in Professor Lewis' widely-read and highly-respected blog, "Bits and Pieces." Professor Lewis expressed worry that such an initiative would "set a terrible precedent." He noted that throughout its history, "Harvard has a deep and ancient antipathy to pledges and oaths." Professor Lewis traced this antipathy back to the very founding of Harvard College. More recently, he noted, President Nathan Pusey "raised his voice in 1959 to object to US legislation that would have demanded that certain scholarship recipients swear to uphold the Constitution. Loyalty oaths, even ones affirming unexceptionable principles, are, as Pusey put it, 'odious.'"
Dean Dingman backed down. But the following year he had a surprise awaiting incoming members of the Class of 2016. No pledge this time (that was too visible to the administration's critics), but, instead, without any public announcement such as doomed the prior year's attempt at freshmen thought reform, Dean Dingman managed to slip a stealth attitudinal re-education program into Harvard's freshman orientation week. Harvard undergraduates are now instructed in kindness, its belief and its practice, as a requirement, but this is done not in public, but in private orientation sessions.No wonder Justice Brandeis famously wrote: "sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants."
[Note to the reader: The following section on the Swamy case was included in the original typescript of the lecture, but was eliminated due to a lack of time when the speech was orally delivered.]
So Long Swamy: No room for hate rhetoric here
This was the headline of a Harvard Crimson staff editorial that appeared on December 12, 2011. The paper reported that a week earlier - on December 6th - "the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted by a large majority to exclude Indian economist Subramanian Swamy's course from this year's Harvard Summer school offerings." I quote further from the Crimson editorial:
The proposal, brought forward by Comparative Religion Professor Diana L. Eck, referenced Swamy's inflammatory op-ed published last year in the Indian newspaper Daily News and Analysis. In the piece, Swamy calls for the destruction of mosques as retaliation for terrorist attacks in India, as well as the disenfranchisement of Indian Muslims who refuse to acknowledge Hindu ancestry. Swamy's op-ed clearly constitutes hate speech, by even the most lenient definition. As a matter of principle, there is no place for hate speech in the Harvard community. Regardless of whether Swamy's article actually has the ability to incite violence, the worthless, hateful bile contained therein itself ought to disqualify the man from teaching at our University. The faculty's decision to remove Swamy from the teaching roster was wise, just, and reasonable."
After going on for a while in this vein, the Crimson editorial concludes:
"The Harvard community has an obligation to maintain a minimum standard of decency among its members. Those who stand for bigotry, hatred, and violence have no place instructing students or wearing the Harvard name. We commend the faculty for their principled decision."
Why am I so disturbed by this editorial, written by Harvard undergraduate journalists? Well, in the past the Crimson tended to be a bastion of support for free speech and academic freedom. But we see, in this editorial, student journalists' supporting the faculty's censorship based entirely upon a professor's expression, in an off-campus venue in his native country, of views deemed unacceptable at Harvard.
It is Harvard Yard that has become dangerous for the dissenting voice, in contrast to Harvard Square where anything goes. Surely this is a clarion call for us alumni. It is a rather large canary uttering a warning in our academic coal mine.


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Dear Friend,
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Find out why your relationship went off track in the first place. This may be a defining moment in your relationship recovery! |
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Learn how to respond positively when your partner is treating you in a way that triggers anger and all sorts of painful emotions, so that you don't damage your relationship... it's easier than you might think! |
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Follow this step-by-step exercise that will quickly allow you to recognize exactly what your needs are so that you can ensure they are getting met, even if your partner doesn't seem interested. |
Learn how to build yourself up, so that you are whole and healthy and bringing your best to the relationship. Coming from this position will make it much easier to restore your relationship! |
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The two specific emotions that you may well be holding onto, without even realizing it, that may well be making it very difficult for your partner and others to be happy around you. Let me show you what it is and how to let it go! |
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Discover how to re ignite the passion back into your relationship, no matter how long you have been together. It is crucial that you listen and learn as I share the differing ways that men and women view sex so you both feel comfortable and fulfilled! |
I want to learn the powerful relationship skills I NEED in order to
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I want to be able to handle any crisis situation in my relationship with professional techniques that work, so I can avoid unnecessary hurt and pain.
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I can tell you from years of relationship advice that the longer you wait before taking action (that actually works) the lower your chances of relationship recovery are.
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Even the smallest change in your attitudes, actions and lifestyle can completely change the dynamic of the relationship...YOU have enormous power to change your relationship and avoid being a statistic , but you must make the decision to want to first.
Here's the Bottom Line
...I have news for you, most people sadly end up in exactly the same situation with a new partner within months of their breakup.
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I want to learn the powerful relationship skills I NEED in order to
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I also understand that because I am joining today I am going to receive the entire course, plus the TWO super bonuses, for a special low price of $47!
I would really love to hear your success story after you have restored your relationship from following the techniques in my Relationship Recovery course. I tell all my customers to email me, and of course that does mean a large amount of email for me, but I love it, so please email me your success story also!
Rachel Rider
Author of "Relationship Recovery"
P.S. This course is an electronic download so you can get started right away! No Shipping, No Waiting! And remember, the price of a consultation with a relationship counselor costs $120/hour and upwards, whereas my book is priced at a fraction of this: $47. I'm sure you'll agree that the price is inconsequential when compared to your emotional and physical costs of your relationship ending, especially if your relationship has the potential to be the relationship of your dreams.
P.P.S If you don't take this opportunity now, while you can, then you need to consider what your options are for saving your relationship... Relationships don't just fix themselves and falling out of love is just a myth created by Hollywood. Every relationship, yours included can be restored, IF you now how, and follow professional relationship advice.. the choice is yours.


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As this is a specialist service, we are unable to quote your alterations cost at the time of your dress purchase, and you are required to meet with our dressmakers who can see how your properly sized gown is fitting you and then discuss with you any additional requests you have.
We are able to give you an average amount we recommend budgeting for based on the gown you select and this will be discussed with you at the time of purchase.
When will my gown arrive?
You should expect to receive your gown approximately 8-10 months from paying your deposit (standard delivery time). Your gown in ordered as soon as your deposit has been paid. This will again be discussed with you at the time of purchase. Express options allow gowns to be received 1-2 months faster than standard delivery.
We give you an estimated delivery date at the time of purchase, which is an estimate only. Delivery is subject to change based on Designer, Freight company change and even the time of the year (Eg; Christmas Holidays). We always work to your wedding date and allow suitable time for alterations.
How can I pay for my gown?
At the time of purchase we require a 50% deposit. Your order will then be placed.
We then will complete a 5 month lay-by of which your monthly payment amount will be written on your lay-by contract. Monthly payments can be made in store or via direct debit or over the phone.
We accept Cash, Direct Deposit (Account details are provided with all orders), Visa & Mastercard payments. We do not accept American Express.
Once your gown has arrived in store, your outstanding balance (if there is one) will need to be paid on collection of your gown and/or any alterations take place.
What are the price range of your gowns?
We have gowns in store priced from approximately $1,500 to $7,000. The majority of our collection is priced from $2000-$4000.
Occasionally, when we have a Designer Clearance for Sample Gowns, where gowns can be priced from $500.
Most of our Gowns are in US Sizing. The fit to each gown can be different between gowns and between designers.
It is not necessary to try on your exact size when selecting your gown and our expert stylists will help guide you with this during your appointment.
Once you have selected your gown, the sizing will be recommended and matched to each Designers Standard Sizing Chart based on your measurements taken at the time of purchase and in consultation with each client.
Your Gown will be ordered to a Standard Size and your measurements are used to help determine this. Your gown is not custom made to your measurements


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Weekly Newsletter March 18th to March 22nd
Stocks fell for the second straight week on inflation concerns despite a report on consumer prices that was initially well received by investors.
Stocks Slide
Tuesday was the only bright spot during the week as stock prices rose after the Labor Department report showed the Consumer Price Index rose 3.2% in February compared with a year earlier. It was a bit warmer than economists expected but cooler than investors feared. The news sparked a day-long rally, with the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index setting its 17th record high of the year.1,2
Following Tuesday, caution lingered as investors parsed the underlying data behind headline consumer inflation numbers. Thursday's fresh producer price index (PPI) report showed that wholesale prices increased by 0.6% in February, more than the expected 0.3% increase. Additionally, core PPI (excluding food and energy) was hotter than expected.
Retail sales, also reported on Thursday, were disappointing, rising less than expected and adding to the inflation angst. The news rattled investors and contributed to stocks closing lower for three consecutive days to end the week.3,4
Source: YCharts.com, March 16, 2024. Weekly performance is measured from Monday, March 11, to Friday, March 15.ROC 5 = the rate of change in the index for the previous 5 trading days.TR = total return for the index, which includes any dividends as well as any other cash distributions during the period.Treasury note yield is expressed in basis points.
Broadening Leadership
Unlike the prior week when the S&P 500 fell the least, last week it lost slightly more than the Dow but less than the Nasdaq. That performance pattern suggests market leadership may be broadening. Also, the energy, financials, and materials sectors all posted gains last week, showing that other groups may join the tech-led rally.5
This Week: Key Economic Data
Monday: Housing Market Index.
Tuesday: FOMC Meeting Begins. Housing Starts and Permits. 20-Year Treasury Bond Auction.
Wednesday: FOMC Announcement. Fed Chair Press Conference. EIA Petroleum Status Report.
Thursday: Jobless Claims. Existing Home Sales. Fed Balance Sheet.
Source: Investors Business Daily - Econoday economic calendar; March 13, 2024
The Econoday economic calendar lists upcoming U.S. economic data releases (including key economic indicators), Federal Reserve policy meetings, and speaking engagements of Federal Reserve officials. The content is developed from sources believed to be providing accurate information. The forecasts or forward-looking statements are based on assumptions and may not materialize. The forecasts also are subject to revision.
This Week: Companies Reporting Earnings
Tuesday: GameStop Corp. (GME)
Wednesday: Micron Technology, Inc. (MU), General Mills, Inc. (GIS), Five Below, Inc. (FIVE), Chewy (CHWY)
Thursday: NIKE, Inc. (NKE), FedEx Corporation (FDX), lululemon athletica inc. (LULU), Darden Restaurants, Inc. (DRI)
Source: Zacks, March 13, 2024
Companies mentioned are for informational purposes only. It should not be considered a solicitation for the purchase or sale of the securities. Investing involves risks, and investment decisions should be based on your own goals, time horizon, and tolerance for risk. The return and principal value of investments will fluctuate as market conditions change. When sold, investments may be worth more or less than their original cost. Companies may reschedule when they report earnings without notice.
"Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we aren't perfect."
– Fred Rogers
4 Facts About Capital Gains
When you sell a capital asset, such as an investment or a piece of property, the sale can result in a capital gain or loss. The IRS defines a capital asset as "most property you own for personal use or own as an investment." Here are four facts you should keep in mind:
- A capital gain or loss is the difference between what you originally paid for the asset (your basis) and the amount you get when you sell the asset.
- You must include all capital gains in your income, and you may be subject to the Net Investment Income Tax if your income is above certain amounts. Consult a qualified tax expert for help.
- The IRS allows you to deduct capital losses on the sale of investment property. You cannot deduct losses on the sale of property that you hold for personal use.
- If your total net capital loss is more than the limit you can deduct, you can carry it over to next year's tax return.
*This information is not intended to be a substitute for specific, individualized tax advice. We suggest that you discuss your specific tax issues with a qualified tax professional.
Tip adapted from IRS.gov6
Finding Inner Peace Inside (and Indoors)
Yoga has been practiced for thousands of years and has had a revival in the last couple of decades. Yoga can be an optimal exercise choice for many individuals of all ages. But before getting started with any fitness regimen, discuss any medical concerns with your healthcare provider; this information is not a substitute for medical advice.
While there are many different styles of yoga, yoga is generally a low-impact form of exercise. In addition to fitness benefits, it can help you learn relaxation and breathing techniques and how to regulate emotions and quiet your mind. It's also a great form of indoor exercise, and there are thousands of free classes on YouTube. So, if you're still enduring the remnants of winter, you can practice quieting your inner monologue by doing yoga from the comfort of your home.
Tip adapted from Healthline.com7
The letters in the words meter, man and uses may be rearranged to make a 12-letter word. What is this word?
Last week's riddle: The 22nd and 24th U.S. presidents had the same parents– yet the 22nd and 24th U.S. presidents were not siblings. Why? Answer: The 22nd and 24th U.S. presidents were the same person - Grover Cleveland.
Footnotes and Sources
1. The Wall Street Journal, March 15, 2024
2. The Wall Street Journal, March 12, 2024
3. CNBC, March 15, 2024
4. CNBC, March 15, 2024
5. Sector SPDRs, March 15, 2024
6. IRS.gov, October 17, 2023
7. Healthline.com, December 18, 2023
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D-Day commemoration. Presentation of the French Legion of Honor to veterans of WWII
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06 June 2014. The National WWII Museum, New Orleans, Lousiana.
WWII veteran Sgt Fred Morgan Jr, 503rd Parachute infantry regiment is honored with the French Legion of Honor medal by French Consul General, Claude Brunet..
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