Taxes, privacy at center of Amazon tiff with North Carolina.
Way to go Amazon!
Category: Worth a Look
Economist: copyright terms should be shorter
From The Economist!
The question is how such a deal can be made equitably. At the moment, the terms of trade favour publishers too much. A return to the 28-year copyrights of the Statute of Anne would be in many ways arbitrary, but not unreasonable. If there is a case for longer terms, they should be on a renewal basis, so that content is not locked up automatically. The value society places on creativity means that fair use needs to be expanded and inadvertent infringement should be minimally penalised. None of this should get in the way of the enforcement of copyright, which remains a vital tool in the encouragement of learning. But tools are not ends in themselves.
via Protecting creativity: Copyright and wrong | The Economist.
Bringing US privacy law into the cloud computing era
Bringing US privacy law into the cloud computing era.
Be sure to check out the video… love how the running bill gets winded and can’t keep up with technology. I’m not sure it’s the best image of our legal system, though.
EFF on YouTube’s automatic censorship
YouTube’s Content ID Censorship Problem Illustrated | Electronic Frontier Foundation.
As I would have expected, the EFF has a great response to the Lessig-on-YouTube debacle. I’m glad they agree on the (strong) word “censorship.”