Nesting, a photo by webmink on Flickr. I spent a half-day walking around the centre of Amsterdam following a speaking engagement. I can never decide how I feel about this city. It’s a place with many scenes of great beauty – water, trees, long vistas with distant vanishing points, interesting and colourful buildings. Yet at [...]
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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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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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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 [...]
Microsoft and FOSS, Behind the scenes ACTA, Android & less-than-free, new music and new copyright.
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Italian democracy, citizen surveillance, DRM from the BBC and even the BCS rejecting a petition. May I get depressed?
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OpenSolaris Board results, Stallman on SaaS, ACTA text leaked and seaweed.
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