I know from the statistics that many of the people who read this are in the USA. Apologies to everyone else, but I’d like to ask all my US readers to take a look at the minimalist petition on the White House e-petitions site asking the President to veto SOPA and PIPA when their future [...]
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While the decision by the US Library of Congress to create exceptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for jailbreaking iPhones is very welcome, the reaction has been just a touch too euphoric. There are two big reasons I’m only vaguely impressed. One concerns market power and its potential abuse, the other concerns global trade.
Filed under: ACTA, DRM | Tagged: Apple, ComputerWorldUK, DMCA, iPhone, Jailbreaking | 1 Comment »
The OSI Categorically Rejects IIPA’s special pleadings against Open Source Official statement from OSI denouncing the IIPA’s warped view of the world that says developing nations should not be mandating open source while the US states and federal agencies get right along with the same thing. Very welcome statement that I know we’ll see Open [...]
Filed under: Links | Tagged: Digital Economy Bill, DMCA, IIPA, Open Source, OSI | 3 Comments »
Bogus Copyright Claim Silences Yet Another Larry Lessig YouTube Presentation The finest possible visual aid for why we can't rely on automatic means to "filter" content. Lessig, as the world's leading authority on "fair use", is assumed guilty until he declares – and perhaps proves – himself innocent. (tags: Lessig music FairUse dmca YouTube copyright [...]
Filed under: Links | Tagged: Collaboration, Copyright, Digital Economy Bill, DMCA, Etherpad, Fair Use, Lessig, Music, Ubuntu, UbuntuOne, YouTube | 2 Comments »
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