http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings by Derek Slater Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:02:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is a huge turning point. Jim Griffin has been telling everyone to "monetize the anarchy" for essentially the entire decade. This solution was on the table dating back to Napster. The idea has long percolated within the entertainment & tech community (read: the pholist). Many, many others contributed to its ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2008/03/27/warner-music-hires-jim-griffin/ December 2007: Copyright for Canadians Feb. 13, 2008, Google Public Policy blog: "Here in Canada, where there is an ongoing debate about how to best implement the WIPO Copyright Treaty, Google has joined with a number of other Canadian and international companies who have a shared vision of balanced copyright. The ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2008/02/14/the-copyfightca/ Today, Rep. Ed Markey and Chip Pickering introduced bipartisan legislation to help preserve Internet freedom and explicitly make "net neutrality" a guiding principle of U.S. broadband policy. The bill would affirm that the Internet should remain an open platform for innovation, competition, and social discourse, free from unreasonable discriminatory practices ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2008/02/13/rep-markeys-new-net-neutrality-legislation/ (Extended cross-post from Google Public Policy Blog) Broadband deployment in the U.S. is at best disappointing and at worst a crisis. The United States lags behind other countries in broadband uptake per capita, ranked 15th in the latest Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development (OECD) data. While consumers in Sweden and ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2008/01/30/towards-a-bigger-better-broadband-future/ If code is law and architecture is policy, then a Summer of Policy is a natural complement to Google's Summer of Code. That's exactly what Google announced yesterday -- a new Policy Fellowship program offering $7,000 stipends for undergraduate and graduate students to dive deep into the tech policy ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2007/11/13/google-policy-fellowships-a-dream-come-true/ If you haven't already read Sonia Katyal's "Privacy v. Piracy" and "The New Surveillance," you should. The articles have proven quite prescient -- with the Sony DRM rootkit and AT&T's announcement about forthcoming ISP-level filtering, the notion of "piracy surveillance" has become increasingly relevant. She recently sent me a new article, ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2007/11/11/katyals-semiotic-disobedience/ For those still tuning in, writing is likely to stay sporadic for a bit as I'm changing jobs. I'm starting a new gig as a Policy Analyst on Google's public policy team, which means you may see me here from time to time. Google is at the center of the ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2007/09/22/a-programming-note/ Tired of paying several dollars to buy ringtone versions of music you already own? When it comes to songs ripped from your CD collection or downloaded MP3s, widely-available software tools allow you to roll your own ringtones instead and put them on a variety of phones. But what the world ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2007/09/10/itunes-ringtones-making-you-pay-again-for-music-you-already-own/ Prof. Lemley works through how we might standardize and unify Internet intermediary safe harbors across the board, from defamation to copyright and beyond. Read his paper here. (Via Eric Goldman) http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2007/08/16/mark-lemleys-one-safe-harbor-to-rule-them-all/ Read about her ambitious plan for a model copyright law here. (via Patry) http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2007/08/01/pam-samuelsons-copyright-reform-project/ Two months ago, the Justice Department floated draft legislation to expand the scope of, and stiffen the penalties for, criminal copyright infringement, and now a related bill has been introduced in the House. This isn't the first time that Congress has taken up the DoJ's copycrime wishlist, and, for all ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2007/08/01/copycrime-bill-raises-its-ugly-head-again/ Last week, Sen. Harry Reid proposed and then withdrew dangerous legislation that threatened to make universities do the entertainment industry's dirty work and use ineffective, burdensome copyright filtering tools on their networks. The Higher Education Reauthorization Act has now passed the Senate without that language. Thanks to everyone who took ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2007/08/01/legislative-shot-across-colleges-bow-over-p2p/ Not even a week after AT&T announced plans to adopt undefined technical measures to stop "piracy," NBC-Universal has asked [PDF] the FCC to declare that "broadband service providers have an obligation to use readily available means" (emphasis added) to stop copyright infringement. On the unintentionally funny-and-scary scale of one to ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2007/06/18/fcc-should-make-isps-play-copyright-cop-says-nbc/ AT&T has announced plans to sell out its customers. No, this time we're not talking about spying on telephone and Internet communications on the government's behalf. AT&T is now kowtowing to the entertainment industry and jointly developing undisclosed technical measures in yet another desperate attempt to stop "piracy." On its face, this ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2007/06/14/att-to-play-copyright-cop-sell-out-customers/ There was some Slashdot buzz earlier this week about Microsoft Windows Media Center users suddenly facing restrictions forbidding playback of recorded analog cable TV content. Was DRM smuggled along with an "update" into unsuspecting users' machines? In fact, Windows Media Center has always obeyed CGMS-A, a DRM system that TV stations ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2007/05/23/windows-media-center-drm-now-with-more-bugs/