Tag: law
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Never forget
Just going down memory lane partly because me and Kirk were chatting about the mid 90’s gay scene with a bloke down the pub last week. It turns out the first gay club I went into is now a hipster ‘rock and roll pool hall‘. Hmm, like Coleherne toilets now being the gastropub kitchen, it’s…
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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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UK democracy with a copyright symbol
Crazy world where a Brighton and Hove local councillor can get sanctioned because of copying a council’s public web stream to YouTube without editing them. Yes this is the silliness of UK’s crown copyright and other laws – public money or public office does not automatically mean public domain, sadly. Hence why rx could happily…
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Who watches the watchers? Right to film the police
Certainly the police in the UK and the US seems to have lost a lot of trust, to the point that recorded evidence (like the CCTV tape at the shooting of Jean Charles de Menenez?) goes missing and it seems that criminal cases such as the one against PC Simon Harwood who assaulted and most…
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I Love the Love Police; yet I hate the fake/real Police
I’ve posted about them before (their excellent and funny Canary Wharf video I think as part of their ‘Everything is OK’ series) but I love how Charlie and co. deal with the Fake Bacon (aka Hobby Bobbies, aka PCSOs). They really do seem to be a menace, as they pop up a lot in Section…
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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…