Posts Tagged ‘Copyright’
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
American novelist Mark Helprin has a new book out called “Digital Barbarism” in which he defends – among other things – copyright extensions. This manifesto against the free culture movement seems to be a accumulation of insults and conservative claims on how culture should be produced and circulated.
For instance:
The vast bulk of this ["free culture"] [...]
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Tags: Book, Copyright, free culture, Lessig
Yesterday at 5P.M, the French Constitutional Council – in charge of checking the conformity of legislation with the Constitution – rendered a groundbreaking decision regarding the highly controversial “three strikes law” (or graduated response), passed last month by Parliament to fight illegal downloading.
The law established a penalty amounting to the suspension of downloaders’ internet connection [...]
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Tags: Constitution, Copyright, Cultural industries, Europe, France, Human Rights, Internet, Media, Network, New Media
A few weeks ago, the French Journal Le Débat published a compelling piece by Benjamin Loveluck entitled “Internet: Toward a Radical Democracy?“. The author, who is writing a Ph.D thesis on “the hypermodern individual and the genealogy of contemporary media regimes” (sic), successfully locates the recent developments of the internet within the history of liberal-democracies. [...]
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Tags: Blogging, Copyright, Cultural industries, Democracy, Google, Intellectual Property, Internet, Journalism, Lessig, New Media, Philosophy
Copyright Gone Wrong
At the beginning of this year, the head of the European Commission’s Internal Market and Services Directorate General Charlie McCreevy announced his plan to extend copyright terms for performers and phonogram producers from 50 years today to 95 years (1). The Commission advances the argument that many works from ageing musicians dating back to the [...]
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Tags: Copyright, European Union, Music Industry, P2P, Politics
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
