Yesterday, the US House of Representatives voted 400-21 to overturn a proposed change by the Federal Communications Commission to allow one company to own stations that broadcast to 45% of the national market, instead of the current 35% limit. The Senate and the President still have to review the FCC changes.
I can’t wait to hear the discussion following the publication and/or broadcast of the photos of Saddam Hussein’s deceased sons and whether showing them in the United States media is in good taste. This morning, I heard a radio interview of a man who had lived in places where they paraded the bodies of the [...]
Today’s Connection, a 90.9 WBUR radio program broadcast nationally and over the Internet, will talk about the controversy surrounding whether the British government exaggerated Iraqi weapons reports that the BBC has been covering. It will also discuss David Kelly’s role in the matter. This segment of the show airs from10 to 11 am and may [...]
Susan Watts, science editor of the BBC’s Newsnight, is now giving a tape of her interview with David Kelly to the judicial inquiry into Dr. Kelly’s death. A few days ago, the BBC revealed that Dr. Kelly, a scientist familiar with Iraq’s weapons, was the source for some of its reports that the British government [...]
Create like it’s 1790 align=”left” border=0> A first-timer at Thursday’s blog group sent me some interesting links about a group of people who are trying to increase the amount of material going into the public domain. The Eric Eldred Act Web site (which includes a blog about copyright law) came about as part of Eldred [...]
The radio show Here and Now did a piece today about copyright, the public domain, and the Internet, beginning with a discussion about the song “Happy Birthday,” which under current copyright legislation will not be in the public domain until 2030, and ending with a discussion of Creative Commons, a way people can opt to [...]
Privacy and blogging has come up a lot recently, so I thought maybe I’d say something about it in my space. The privacy issue here deals with identifying people on a blog. Wendy of Redhead fame talked about it on her blog recently. She, Andrew, and I talked about it while walking home from a [...]
Privacy and blogging has come up a lot recently, so I thought maybe I’d say something about it in my space. The privacy issue here deals with identifying people on a blog. Wendy of Redhead fame talked about it on her blog recently. She, Andrew, and I talked about it while walking home from a [...]
From today’s Boston Globe: “Boston College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, citing concerns about student privacy, moved yesterday to quash subpoenas issued by the recording industry to discover the identities of students the industry says are illegally distributing copyrighted music.” The hunt for student violators at several other universities and colleges is discussed in [...]