Archive for the 'Law' Category
Just as the U.S Congress is about to debate the Internet Freedom Preservation Act, and before the Telecom Package discussion resumes later this fall, one could regret that the concept of openness of our communications infrastructure is not more salient in the public debate.
What is about anyway? And why does it matter?
An open communications infrastructure [...]
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Tags: Copyright, Democracy, Free Speech, Intellectual Property, Internet, Lessig, Media, Net Neutrality, Network, Progress, Telecom, United States
French competition regulator released an important report, saying an internet provider should (Orange in this case) not be allowed to use exclusive broadcasting rights to make some media content available only to its suscribers.
France is thus drifting away from poor regulation that would have been detrimental to both the role that the media play in [...]
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Tags: Cultural industries, Orange, Telecom, TV
If We Could Free Our Culture
I just finished Lawrence Lessig’s book Free Culture (2004) and it has made me angry. A law professor specialized in intellectual property, Lessig demonstrates that we are caught in a dangerous, reactionary discourse about intellectual property in the Net era. His sincere advocacy for a freer society deconstructs the key elements of the debate on [...]
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Tags: Intellectual Property, Lessig, Politics
Things are moving forward on the privacy front.
In April, the so-called “Group 29”, an advisory body to the European Commission on privacy and public liberties matters, issued a memo in which it analyzed the activity of data-mining internet companies. More specifically, it sought to establish whether they respected the European regulatory framework which is composed [...]
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Tags: Congress, European Union, Google, Web, Yahoo
The French Government just finished writing a bill that would aim at controlling internet traffic in order to punish web users guilty of copyright infringement. The law, highly anticipated by right holders, would create a new public body in charge of sanctioning people guilty of illegal downloading. It would first warn them by sending emails [...]
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Tags: France, Piracy
The battle that right-holders have been waging against P2P users has proved largely unsuccessful so far. In the US, the methods used by the recording industry’s lobby (RIAA) to track down “pirates” are put into question; in France, the penal sanctions provided by a 2006 Act on author’s rights have had no effect in stopping [...]
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a diary about how new technologies redefine the polis by felix treguer
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News from the Wired Polis- File-Sharing good for cultural diversity and business November 11, 2009
- Enforcement of IPR... ACTA not the way to go November 6, 2009
- Europe misses out on a full protection of Net freedoms November 5, 2009
- Telcos turned into the police of the Net? November 4, 2009
- New battle fronts in sight for Net neutrality November 2, 2009
- More spectrum for wireless Internet in Europe? October 31, 2009
- EU to overhaul online privacy rules October 27, 2009
