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The British government has brought down its long-awaited Digital Economy Bill, and it's perfectly useless and terrible. It consists almost entirely of penalties for people who do things that upset the entertainment industry...
More Skirmishes In The Search Wars: Murdoch and Bing Talk Exclusive The Moderate Voice Cory Doctorow has a clear crystal ball. Earlier this month, Rupert Murdoch accused Google of stealing his content and threatened to cut the...
Various nations, including Australia, Japan, Korea, and Singapore, among others, are said to be negotiating ACTA now, with the goal of passing a joint treaty to protect intellectual property sometime in 2010.
Minister tries parliamentary amendment to grant new enforcement powers Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk 20 Nov 2009 A letter leaked to internet activist and author Cory Doctorow revealed that Mandelson is asking for...
Is it really that bad? Last March I took a quick look at what some of the anti’s were saying, and focused mainly on the question of whether the treaty was properly classified. I didn’t line up, exactly, behind Cory Doctorow,...
Best-selling writer Cory Doctorow on change and its discontents. Consider the world of "Makers," the latest by best-selling writer Cory Doctorow. The inventor-heroes of "Makers" take technology to its conclusion: They figure...
Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing.net notes that Associated Press has a warped view of fair use. While they try to get bloggers to pay a license fee to quote five or more words from AP articles, when it came to the Sarah Palin book...
By Cory Doctorow, Co-Editor, BoingBoing.net Michael Fricklas, Viacom’s (VIA.B) General Counsel, gave a lecture to a Yale Law class in which he confessed that suing people for copyright infringement felt “like terrorism.” He...
GulfNews Media baron Murdoch cries foul GulfNews As usual last week, Rupert Murdoch infuriated a lot of people by thinking out loud. He accused Google and Microsoft of "stealing" stories from News Corporation's papers such as...
The government has revealed details of its Digital Economy Bill, trailed in the Queen's Speech. One proposal which has already attracted a great deal of attention is the introduction of new penalties for those suspected of...
