Michael Geist – EU ACTA Analysis Leaks: Confirms Plans For Global DMCA, Encourage 3 Strikes Model Michael Geist has posted a summary of the leaked EU ACTA analysis. Some highlights: Third party liability Limitations on 3rd Party Liability Anti-circumvention Provisions Civil and Criminal Enforcement of Anti-Circumvention Rights Management Information protection Limitations to Rights Management Information …
Ars Technical reports today about a report produced by Havard Law’s Berkman Center for the FCC. The thing I like most about it is how the problems of today are traced to the (arguably failed) Brand X Supreme Court decision, which classified internet providers as information services. This allowed cable (and eventually phone) companies to …
On the Road – At the Airport, a Box of Cash Becomes a Constitutional Case – NYTimes.com I’ve been writing lately (not here…for the dissertation) on the topic of how law gets communicated. Here’s an interesting case where the government has difficulty educating their own employees (contractors?) about the law.
Ars Technica narrates a fictitious script between Nancy Regulator and Freddy Freemarket, whereby the two debate whether there is ’cause for action’ on the part of the FCC in Internet neutrality. The entire argument turns on whether service providers’ previous efforts to shape or alter traffic count as “anecdotes” or evidence for the need for …
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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