Op-Ed Contributor – How the Internet Got Its Rules – NYTimes.com The author of the original Request for Comment (R.F.C. #1) writes a bit about the history of the RFC process. It really highlights how an open, grassroots, democratic technical system fostered the Internet of today. I wonder to what degree this model is still …
Court: Congress can’t put public domain back into copyright – Ars Technica This is an interesting (rare!) application of First Amendment to copyright… I’m eager to read the full decision.
World’s Fastest Broadband at $20 Per Home – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com This took a few days to filter into my aggregator, but it offers a great explanation of why Internet speeds are slow here in the Sates (emphasis mine): Competition, or the lack of it, goes a long way to explaining why the fees …
I went to watch British TV Ads at the Madison Film Festival today. One of my favorites was a Freixenet documentary featuring Martin Scorsese: Your ears do not deceive you–the audio has been disabled because music from the Hitchcock film North By Northwest plays during the film. One could argue that this music is part …
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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