Today’s Times has an article about the new phenomenon of “slivercasting,” or narrow-interest Internet-only broadcasts. They give an interesting overview of how all sorts of narrow interests can potentially find an audience for video content on the net. However, as with Wired’s September 05 issue on “The TV of Tomorrow,” the Times article focuses too …
For the last few days, I’ve been posting about how the application of media law to the public might be a bad thing. It’s just occurred to me that one might rightly ask, “why?” The answer is because the public needs to be given a chance to accept these laws before they can gain any …
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), I just noticed, has a “Legal Guide for Bloggers.” Right along the lines of my last post, it starts out: Whether you’re a newly minted blogger or a relative old-timer, you’ve been seeing more and more stories pop up every day about bloggers getting in trouble for what they post. …
I noticed today (while Googling myself) that a site on the “Commercialization of the Internet” was linked for an entry in “A Little History of the Internet” by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). I’m under March, 1993. The Acceptable Use Policy prohibiting commercial use of the Internet re-interpreted, so that it becomes becomes allowed. …
John is a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He studies the social impact of media technology law and policy, with a special emphasis on copyright. He also is an instructional technology consultant for DoIT-Academic Technology.
John doesn't update his blog often, and many of the thoughts are probably half-baked. While the web has sort of an eternal memory, the current and future reader is urged not to take all of this too seriously.
Think of this blog as "John thinking out loud."
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