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Reaffirming First Principles of Open Communications Networks
Consumer group comments in the FCC's Broadband Practices Notice of Inquiry demonstrate the failure of the current reliance on a cozy, Telco-Cable duopoly to…
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Some people have all the fun.
Semiconductor Insights, a firm that reverse engineers products, took the screwdriver and pliers to an iPhone. They have a video on YouTube. http://www.semicon…
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Electronic filings coming soon to the Copyright Office
The Copyright Office reports it's final rule about electronic copyright submissions and fees. Starting July 2 (for a limited number of copyright claims) it…
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Are Criminal Sanctions the Answer to Spam?
In yesterday's Wired News Circuit Court column "Free the Spam King" I take on the question of whether criminal prosecutions will stop spam, or are…
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Internet Radio Bills Supported by College Broadcasters
While with CIS, Fellow Elizabeth Rader (now with Akin Gump) did a lot of excellent work for college broadcasters facing prohibitively high fees and complex pape…
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Prof. Michael Geist at CFP
Here's a quick live-blog of Prof. Michael Geist's dinner talk tonight at the Computers Freedom & Privacy conference in Montreal. Future of the Inte…
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US v. Heckenkamp
Last week, in United States v. Heckenkamp, the Ninth Circuit (correctly) ruled that students have a constitutionally protected reasonable expectation of privacy…
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OECD user-created content report
I’ve just came across this report published recently by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) about User-Created Content (UCC). The…
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(Cyber) Crime and Punishment - Worries about the Convention on Cybercrime
href="http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1540,2100916,00.asp">My column in this month's CIO Insight describes a few of the big concerns I hav…
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Widgets aren’t welcome in TheirSpace
The NYT has the story about a popular blogger, Ms. Tequila, who was apparently contacted personally by MySpace’s founder, Tom Anderson, explaining to her why sh…
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The revolution will be televised...on YouTube
I am working in Europe this week with a large technology company, and of course everyone is talking about the filing of a $1 billion copyright infringement case…
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FCC May Allow Unlicensed use of 'White Space' Spectrum
Techdirt reports that the Federal Communications Commission may start to allow unlicensed uses in so- called "white space spectrum." WSS is the buffe…