TORTS-DEFAMATION-LIBEL BY SILENCE

In an almanac published in 1939, Professor Turpain of the University of Poitiers, France, purported to name the inventors of radio. He failed to include the name of E. Branly. In 1940 Branly brought suit in the lower civil court of Poiters against Professor Turpain, alleging that he had been \u27\u27libelled by silence. The court agreed with him. The court of appeals of Poitiers reversed the decision of the lower court and dismissed the case. Following Branly\u27s death, his heirs questioned the validity of the decision of the court of appeals in the court of Cassation. The court held, in setting aside the judgment of the court of appeals and reinstating the judgment of the lower court, that an author of a book or article on history, even though he acts in good faith, has the duty to use caution when he purports to report facts. In case of a failure to do so, the author is responsible to those who are injured by his lack of caution in research and reporting facts. Branly v. Turpain, Cass., Ch. Civ., sect. civ., Feb. 27, 1951, Gaz. Pal., April 6, 1951; D.H. 19e cahier, p. 329

Law, social policy and the constitution of markets and profit making

This article explores the relationship between law, society, and economy in the context of the contemporary British welfare state. Drawing on themes in Polanyi's The Great Transformation, it identifies the constitutive role of contemporary social policy and law in the creation and maintenance of markets and opportunities for the private sector in the field of welfare, focusing on the institutional mechanisms being put in place to encourage this. What emerges is a reformulation of the function of the welfare state and related law, as these are no longer predominantly driven by a logic of social protection via redistribution to those in need, but increasingly reflect the state's desire to create openings for the private sector within welfare. The institutions that once contributed to ensuring the embeddedness of the market economy in society now play an important role in processes of disembedding – with potentially detrimental consequences for those seeking assistance from the welfare state

Computer games to visualize music: a 270 year-old tradition for digital imaginaries

Within the field of game studies, narratological or ludological discourses provide different lights to understand computer games. Yet the digital design space is still young and one might wonder if there are other ways of approaching the design of games? With the purpose of opening a new line of thought, this paper turns to the historic past and examines a 270 year-old tradition called "color-music." Beginning first in 1735 in France, this paper traces color-music through various turns in the 18th, 19th, 20th, and into the 21st century as designers and artists attempted to build machines capable of allowing a user to manipulation visual elements, often in some relationship with music. This paper then uses this tradition to propose a direction for the design of games in which players are given radical control over the graphics engine as they listen to MP3s

Review of investigation on the feeding of the European grayling [Translation from: Flora Slodkowodna Polski. Tom 2. Cyanophyta, Glaucophyta (ed. K. Starmach) p350-352. Warsaw, Polska Academia Nauk, 1966]

The composition of the food of the European grayling and the character of its feeding has been studied fully enough, but this knowledge is scattered in the literature and often contradictory. rare exceptions, analysis of the results of different investigations. Therefore the proposed short outline of the history of the study of the problem with a description of the basic data on the feeding of the grayling in different geographical areas is presented as expedient and opportune, primarily in relation to the determination of immediate problems and the trend of research

Cumulative Exams (with a twist)

When first hearing about cumulative exams, students generally have a negative reaction – their impression is that cumulative exams are more difficult because knowledge has to be retained for longer periods of time.https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/btp_expo/1030/thumbnail.jp