I’m very pleased to announce that the fourth book in the MIT Press “Information Society Series” I am co-editing with Laura DeNardis has been released: The Digital Rights Movement: The Role of Technology in Subverting Digital Copyright Hector Postigo The…
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I'm pleased to announce that the first book in the MIT Press "Information Society Series" I am co-editing with Laura DeNardis has been released: Interfaces on Trial 2.0 By Jonathan Band and Masanobu Katoh March 2011 ISBN-10: 0-262-01500-5 ISBN-13: 978-0-262-01500-4…
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Building on last year's success, I'm pleased to announce Milwaukee's 2009 OneWebDay events: On Monday, September 21 (7:00pm, UWM Union Theater), UW-Milwaukee's Center for Information Policy Research and School of Information Studies is hosting a free screening of the Girl…
News reports indicate that Google will begin providing free music downloads in China. Apparently Chinese Internet users have grown so accustomed to downloading music online, that piracy and illegal downloading has impacted music sales there more than even what the…
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Just in time for the sections on intellectual property and fair use in my "Information Technology Ethics" class, the Israeli artist Kutiman released a brilliant collection of YouTube video mashups called "Thru You" (his site has been down due to…
A group of legal, cultural, and social scholars have published a "Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video", providing an important framework to help address the growing challenge of allowing fair use of online content in the…
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation has an excellent page summarizing the MGM v. Grokster case and a complete listing of all the supporting court documents and amicus briefs related to the case. From their page:EFF is defending StreamCast Networks, the company…
[source: The Trademark Blog]The new Google toolbar adds links to content through a function named Auto-Link. For example, it is my understanding that if an address appears on a webpage, a program in Google's toolbar can create a link from…
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