The recording industry should thank Apple | Digital Noise: Music & Tech – CNET Blogs This post over at C-Net reminded me of a thought I had the other day: From a computer-conscious music fans perspective, it appears that the labels purposely crippled their early digital efforts in hopes that their lawsuits would succeed, the …
Does Death Penalty Save Lives? A New Debate – New York Times This is an interesting piece about a number of recent quantitative studies which have found that, controlling for other variables, the death penalty can save more lives than it ends. What interests me, that is not addressed in this article, is the question …
The Daily Show – New York Times Kevin Martin’s op ed piece in today’s Times portrays the proposed relaxation of cross-ownership rules as good for journalism: Without newspapers, we would be less informed about our communities and have fewer outlets for the expression of independent thinking and a diversity of viewpoints. The challenge is to …
New bill would punish colleges, students who dont become copyright cops Ars posts a good summary of the bill I mentioned the other day. What has been bothering me about this one is the question: why colleges? The only reasonable answer I can come up with is that they are service providers to a discrete …
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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