Posted on July 24th, 2009 by William McGeveran
James Grimmelmann and a team of students at New York Law School have launched an elaborate web site called “The Public Index” to facilitate conversation about the proposed settlement of the Google Book litigation. As the site’s home page explains:
Here, you can browse and annotate the proposed settlement, section-by-section. … In addition, you can:
Study our [...]
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Filed under: Books, Copyright, Court Decisions, Digital Media, Education & Copyright, First Amendment, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Law School, Media, Search Engines
Posted on June 19th, 2009 by Tim Armstrong
I delivered my “Crowdsourcing and Open Access” presentation earlier today at CALICon09. A huge thank-you to all who attended; I learned a good deal from the comments and questions (as always happens at these things) and it was a very enjoyable experience. I spent a good part of the presentation talking about how crowdsourced proofreading [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Law School, Open Access, Peer Production, Scholarship, Search Engines
Posted on June 3rd, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
Great panel on filtering at CFP 2009 yesterday – we took up the question of whether John Gilmore is still right in that the “Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” Ian Brown talked about Cleanfeed and how filtering operates, from the most basic to the most sophisticated. TJ McIntyre described the bizarre [...]
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Posted on June 2nd, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
You can follow along with Computers, Freedom, and Privacy 2009 (”Creating the Future”) even if you’re not here in DC (where the weather is surprisingly lovely for June): via Twitter at Tweezup, the CFP blog, and streaming video. The Filtering panel, which also now includes Catherine Crump from the ACLU and Nicole Wong from Google, [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Computer crime, Digital Media, Filtering, First Amendment, ISP, Internet & Society, Media, Privacy, Scholarship, Search Engines, Social Networking, Video, international
Posted on April 19th, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
Google’s a thief. The company steals people’s copyrighted material (Rupert Murdoch); perhaps it’s misappropriating hot news (Associated Press); it’s even planning to replace Maureen Dowd! (Is this bad?) Some comments are even stronger: Robert Thomson of the Wall Street Journal called Google “tech tapeworms,” and The Guardian’s Henry Porter calmly assesses the company as “a [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Education & Copyright, First Amendment, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Search Engines
Posted on August 13th, 2008 by William McGeveran
Building on Derek’s recent post about the International Olympic Committee’s complicity in censorship of the internet in China:
Slashdot features an item about a takedown notice from the IOC demanding that YouTube remove video of a Tibet-related protest at the Chinese Consulate in New York. (The video is still available on Vimeo.) The protesters [...]
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Posted on June 11th, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
Update: I should have read more carefully: Time Warner and Verizon confirmed they’re not going to block any Web sites. I’ve changed text below to reflect that.
Yesterday, I posted a quick analysis of the new policy (using the methodology I propose in a new draft paper) undertaken by Sprint, Verizon, and Time Warner Cable at [...]
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Filed under: Digital Media, Filtering, ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Search Engines, international
Posted on May 22nd, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
Google, Yahoo!, and Cisco faced questions from the subcommittee on human rights (part of the Senate Judiciary Committee) about their role in China’s Internet censorship system. Cisco was in particularly hot water after an internal document surfaced – it discusses how Cisco technology can “Combat ‘Falun Gong’ evil religion and other hostiles.” Senator Dick Durbin [...]
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Filed under: Berkman, Corporate Law, Digital Media, Filtering, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Search Engines, international
Posted on April 3rd, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
The Ninth Circuit has just ruled (en banc) that the Roommates.com Web site is not entitled to immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. (Props to Eric Goldman for the link!) The opinion, by Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, is typically lucid and holds, essentially, that Roommates falls outside the safe harbor because it [...]
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Filed under: Court Decisions, Digital Media, Filtering, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Peer Production, Search Engines, Social Networking, Software
Posted on November 6th, 2007 by William McGeveran
On December 8th I’ll have the privilege of speaking alongside many smart people at a symposium put on by the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. The title is Reputation Economies in Cyberspace. The topic could hardly be more timely. Admission to the day-long event, sponsored by Microsoft, is available to [...]
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Filed under: Anonymity, Blogging, Digital Media, ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Microsoft, Peer Production, Privacy, Scholarship, Search Engines, Security, Social Networking