Law.Gov: America’s Operating System, Open Source – O’Reilly Radar An amazing announcement about law.gov, a tool that could revolutionize access to legal documents in America: We envision Law.Gov as a distributed, open source, authenticated registry and repository of all primary legal materials in the United States. From the public.resource.org site: Law.Gov is an effort to …
Special Interests See ‘Classified’ Copyright Treaty; You Can’t | Threat Level | Wired.com Want to know the language of the ever-transforming proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement? It’s classified. The fact that this treaty continues to be discussed in secret is beyond explanation. Has anyone started a petition against this? Here’s a bit more
GOP senators: Net neutrality rule making must be bipartisan (Ars) Republican senators are asking that any net neutrality regulations be a bipartisan effort, which is fine, so long as we’re talking about Republicans and Democrats and not the public and business interests. “We do not believe that the Commission should adopt regulations based merely on …
100 years of Big Content fearing technology—in its own words – Ars Technica It’s almost a truism in the tech world that copyright owners reflexively oppose new inventions that do (or might) disrupt existing business models. Any readers who follow media law might not be surprised by anything in this article, but for anyone else …
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.
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