April 23, 2006 - April 29, 2006 Archive
April 27, 2006
GETV at EFF Email Debate
Geek Entertainment TV interviews moderator Mitch Kapor and debaters Danny O'Brien and Esther Dyson about the future of email.
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Posted at 12:01 PM by Derek Slater |
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Free Speech
Public Knowledge: Net Neutrality Video
Public Knowledge spells out net neutrality in 30 seconds.
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Posted at 11:20 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Infrastructure
Email: Who (if Anyone) Should Pay?
Dan Farber's summary of the EFF fundraising debate between Esther Dyson and Danny O'Brien
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Posted at 11:20 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Free Software Author Told to Pay $203,000 for Railroad Patent
Turned out the software he was being sued for was, in itself, prior art.
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Posted at 11:20 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Patents
Gonzales Calls for Mandatory Web Labeling law
Among the requirements, draft law requires a warning on "initially viewable" portions of the website. Mandatory interstitials?
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Posted at 11:20 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Watching the Watchers: Video of Congress With Metadata
Metavid is a UCSC project to providable a public, searchable archive of CPAN. Would the Broadcast Treaty kill this innovation?
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Posted at 11:20 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Misc.
Creative Commons SF Salon in May
Creative Commons is holding a salon on May 10th in San Francisco. Share the date!
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Posted at 11:20 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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IP Senators: No, no, Wrong Kind of Kickback
Senator Conrad Burns returns his iPod, despite taking $59K from the entertainment industry.
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Posted at 11:20 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Copyright
Cato's Copyright Cage Fight
Intellectuals on both sides of the IP debate spar at the Cato Institute (RealPlayer archives available soon).
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Posted at 11:20 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Copyright
German Moderators Liable for Forum Commenters
Judge suggests you pre-mod comments or shut down site.
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Posted at 11:20 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Bad Laws
William Patry: Protecting the Idle Rich
William Patry's landmark legal paper on the futility of copyright extension.
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Posted at 11:20 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Amateur-to-Amateur: The Rise of a New Creative Culture
"Let a thousand technologies bloom" -- Cato Institute continues its analysis of copyright and unleashing truly free markets.
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Posted at 11:20 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Misc.
And They Worry About CD *Burners*?
Great photograph of 80,000 pirated CDs destroyed in Lima, Peru. Isn't this who the record labels should be targeting?
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Posted at 11:20 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Copyright
Can Foreign Governments Be Trusted With Your Travel Records?
Privacy International blows the whistle to the EU about US plans to re-use foreign citizens airline passenger records.
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Posted at 11:20 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Privacy
Is US Proposing a Global ID System?
I imagine this will go down well among UN admirers.
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Posted at 11:20 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Privacy
New Hampshire Stands Against Federal ID Cards
Will other states refuse to comply with the Real ID guidelines?
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Posted at 11:20 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Privacy
