The New York Times reported yesterday [reg./$$$ required] that TiVo hopes to gather data about which television commercials get zapped (that is, skipped) and, eventually, who does the zapping. There are some skeptics quoted in the article who think TiVo’s relatively small market share (4.4 million users) and the limited sample size for each night’s [...]
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Filed under: Intermediaries, Media, Privacy
I’ve been meaning for some time to expand on my earlier brief remarks on Berkman Fellow Urs Gasser‘s new paper, Legal Frameworks and Technological Protection of Digital Content: Moving Forward Towards a Best Practice Model. Urs’s essay does a terrific job at cataloging the range of options open to policymakers who want to provide legal [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Digital Media, Scholarship
My co-blogger Derek Bambauer must be too modest to promote his own stuff — or maybe he’s too busy driving across the country to his new job as a law professor — so I will point out that he presented the weekly lunch at the Berkman Center on Tuesday, where he discussed how intellectual property [...]
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Filed under: Berkman, Scholarship, Security, Software