Entries Tagged as 'copyright'
Struggle over Colbert
Don’t executives at major media companies pay attention? This parody of the Colbert Report, called Stop the Falsiness is as much an ad for the show as it is its own thing. There is nothing here that would at all threaten Viacom’s product or in any way go against the political sensibility of the show. […]
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Jon Stewart on Net Neutrality
As usual, Jon Stewart says it best.
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Fighting for Net Neutrality and Internet Freedom
This is more than a little disturbing. But, sometimes the truth isn’t pretty.
Link: Fighting for Net Neutrality and Internet Freedom.
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You Wouldn’t
What the MPAA doesn’t want you to think
but first…watch the original MPAA campaign video here
Then view the more accurate version
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Generative Internet
JZ from the Berkman Center writes his take on the state of the Internet - as the title suggest, declaring that the main fucntionality of the network is its generativity. The full text is available here. And William McGeveran’s interesting synopsis and criticism is available here.
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Code, Law and Society
This article by Cindy Cohn
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James Grimmelmann argues for a distinction between code and law. Code can be law with no values, no interpretation, no room for the human uses of things. As so many aspects of life are coded now, I wonder to what extent designers will fight to keep code from users.
To the extent […]
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lyric finder potentially dangerous
One must be careful not to develop software that is too helpful. As is made quite clear with this recent case…
Facing an upswell of protest, Warner Chappell Music on Friday formally apologized to Walter Ritter over a letter it sent to the software programmer earlier this month targeting a helper application for Apple’s iTunes called […]
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OpenBusiness
This is just a great resource for open business ideas. I find it increasingly disturbing to note just how resistant people are to these ideas. The corporate model of copyright, one that is counter productive to small business and independent creative practice is successfully seeping into culture as "common sense". The little guy is experiencing […]
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Anarchy and Copyright Law
I finally got around to reading Siva Vaidhyanathan’s The Anarchist in the Library (visit his blog here). What a fantastic read. As I understand it, he puts Laurence Lessig into overdrive. He starts with the problem of information flows and the laws that prohibit them and goes to fantastic places including the vulgar manifestations of […]
Google is the face of terrorism
University presses are in the business of distributing information, right? Well then why are they trying to stop what promises to be the most impressive development in scholarship since the printing press?
Is Google really the bad guy here?
Link: Scholarly publishers protest Google’s online library project.
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