For @uupc listeners: How to take action on BBC DRM, the Digital Economy Bill, ACTA and the UK Elections.
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☞ Digging Deeper, Finding Salt
Posted on March 31, 2010 by Simon Phipps
☞ Modernising Privacy
Posted on March 30, 2010 by Simon Phipps
Updating US privacy law is a must in the connected age. Plus: Galleon IBM-er pleads guilty, and best summary of the issues around ACTA.
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☞ Washed Up and Sold Out
Posted on March 29, 2010 by Simon Phipps
Parliament’s wash-up’s a stitch-up Martin Bell in the Guardian with commentary of how the wash-up process is the opposite of democracy and moreover likely to harm electoral reform. This is a subject worth raising with MPs… (tags: UK Politics Election Transparency Democracy reform parliament accountability) Must Read: CCIA Sets US IP Czar Straight On Intellectual Property [...]
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♫ More Music Picks
Posted on March 28, 2010 by Simon Phipps
☞ Politics of Copyright
Posted on March 27, 2010 by Simon Phipps
The Politics of Intellectual Property by Jessica Litman This much shorter paper (from a conference address) is valuable as an explanation and description from a respected and knowledgeable expert on why we are getting such bad law proposed around copyright. The reason? The scope of stakeholdership has expanded (you and I are now stakeholders in [...]
☞ Monkey Business
Posted on March 26, 2010 by Simon Phipps
Microsoft and FOSS, Behind the scenes ACTA, Android & less-than-free, new music and new copyright.
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✍ OSI Opposes BBC DRM
Posted on March 25, 2010 by Simon Phipps
☞ Broken Democracy
Posted on March 25, 2010 by Simon Phipps
Italian democracy, citizen surveillance, DRM from the BBC and even the BCS rejecting a petition. May I get depressed?
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☞ Public Statements
Posted on March 24, 2010 by Simon Phipps
OpenSolaris Board results, Stallman on SaaS, ACTA text leaked and seaweed.
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