A Spurned Parody of ‘Die Hard’ Returns to YouTube, Approved – New York Times Here’s an interesting story of an “infringing” parody. The story seems familiar to online video users: fans create a parody video using pirated studio content and post it on YouTube, and the studio’s lawyers quickly have it removed for violating copyright …
Techdirt: Net Neutrality Debate Again Descends Into Shouting, Farce Techdirt: Net Neutrality Debate Again Descends Into Shouting, Farce Techdirt is, perhaps accurately, decrying the “not wholly accurate, ideological soundbites [argued] from both sides” in the network neutrality debate. This issue is so technically and socially complicated, that it is quite surprising to me that debate …
One of the issues we discussed a bit was the “irrational fears†on the part of content industries (specifically motion picture and music) that all of their sources of revenue will disappear absent some forms of digital rights protection. I wonder if there is also perhaps “irrational fear†on the part of those of us …
Everyones a celebrity in this post-privacy age | CNET News.com Mena Trott, who, with her husband, Ben, developed Movable Type, a software system for publishing blogs, says “control” is a better word than “privacy” for defining oneself in different situations on the Web. “We think blogging is sharing the stuff you care about with the …
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.
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