Tag: Computer law
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John Oliver saves the internet
Well not exactly…yet. But putting Net Neutrality in terms that everyone can understand (Stopping Cable Fuckery indeed) he’s not only boosted the anti-FCC cause, trolls and commenters have melted the FCC servers. Good work! If you want to pile in on the 4chan style scrum, or care that in the supposed Land of the Free…
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First SOPA/PIPA – then ACTA. Round 2!
OK fresh from the wins of the Great Internet Blackout, it’s time to remember that ACTA, The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (remember that?) has NOT gone away, it’s coming up for the final vote in the European Union, despite major problems with the lack of transparency, a massive vote against it in 2010, private and public…
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Vote Them Out + my donation to the cause
Vote Them Out – Jeremy Hunt by / image by Andrew Harrison/PA. Feel free to share this, although I don’t own the image – if that’s a problem use the CC one below. Also feel free to use, remix and adapt my bits, they’re fully Creative Commons After posting my LOOOOOONG list of MPs who…
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Lawrence Lessig gets DMCA’d for fair use by Warners
More silliness from Warners, who after nixing my video and many other peoples seem to be taking over EMI’s previous Public Enemy #1 Evil spot really quickly. So you have a talk about copyright by Lawrence Lessig, a leading expert and thinker in the field, founder of Creative Commons and professor of law at Stanford…
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CC mixter – legally mashup people’s tracks!
Just found this site: CC mixter run by the people behind Creative Commons, it’s a community site where you can share your legal Creative Commons mashups, remixes, acapellas and original tunes…please support it, and did I say there’s loads of free samples, tracks, cutups and acapellas on the site that you can legally use? 😉…