Posted on March 29th, 2007 by Derek Bambauer
China, with its eye on the 2008 Olympics and the associated press coverage, has moved to tighten (further) its already strict on-line content controls (note this article ups the standard “30,000 Internet police figure” – inflation?). China is perhaps the world’s most adept on-line censor; now, they’re filtering LiveJournal (again) and shutting off the flow [...]
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Filed under: Filtering, Intermediaries, international, Internet & Society, ISP
Posted on March 29th, 2007 by William McGeveran
I wrote before about why Apple might not prevail if it sued the maker of the “Hillary 1984″ video, which remashed a classic Apple commercial to attack Senator Clinton’s presidential candidacy. But I acknowledged that it was a close call. This, however, is not a close call: Gina Rosenblum, who claims to own TV and [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Digital Media, Internet & Society, Media, Peer Production, Video, Voting
Posted on March 29th, 2007 by William McGeveran
When you teach in a subject as fast-moving (and as prone to media attention) as data privacy law, this sort of thing happens all the time: my seminar is considering workplace privacy later this very afternoon, and here in this morning’s New York Times is a story [as always with the Times, registration req'd] about [...]
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Filed under: Privacy