Thinking Out Loud, aka The Broad Gaze
Thoughts on the social impacts of communication policy and educational technology.
Google seeks to turn YouTube rights clash into profit | Business | guardian.co.uk
When it first came out Google’s fingerprinting technology was billed as a means to flag YouTube videos as violating copyright. Now, they’re hoping to turn it into a means for the “pirates” to make ad revenue for the content producers. This is an important step in possibly legitimizing online sharing.
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?
I have wondered why news orgs haven’t followed this columnists robots.txt advice.
Who’s afraid of a digital world? The World Copyright Summit – Ars Technica
Interesting report commentary on the World Copyright Summit, which has been happening in D.C. for the last 2 days.