Monthly Archives: February 2010

Certificates and models of trust

Web Security Trust Models | Freedom to Tinker Really interesting post on different ways that we might structure trust/certificates online.

February 23, 2010 – 6:36 pm | By john | Posted in Media / Sociology, Technology, Worth a Look | Comments (0)

Those darn networked jurors

Wisconsin has become one of the first states to offer guidelines that judges can use to instruct jurors. I haven’t been able to find the guidelines online, but their announcement included another interesting tidbit. The instruction does not, of course, help judges who are dealing with journalists and citizen bloggers in court. Live blogging during …

February 23, 2010 – 6:35 pm | By john | Posted in Journalism, Mass Communication Law | Comments (0)

ACTA and ISP immunity

World, get ready for the DMCA: ACTA’s Internet chapter leaks (Ars) Ars offers an interesting interpretation of the leaked ACTA documents. They point out that it would be a globalization of what is already pretty established American law: ISPs are not liable for the infringing content of their subscribers, so long as they take the …

February 23, 2010 – 6:30 pm | By john | Posted in Copyright, Mass Communication Law | Comments (0)

Copyright Reform Act tries fixing fair use with seven words

Copyright Reform Act tries fixing fair use with seven words. In addition to “criticism” and “news reporting” and the rest of the items in the fair use preamble, the CRA proposes the addition of three more: “incidental uses, non-consumptive uses, and personal, non-commercial uses.” This would be huge.

February 23, 2010 – 6:25 pm | By john | Posted in Copyright, Mass Communication Law, Worth a Look | Comments (0)