Cory Doctorow

Britain's new Internet law -- as bad as everyone's been saying, and worse. Much, much worse.

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...

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More Skirmishes In The Search Wars: Murdoch and Bing Talk Exclusive

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...

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Will secret copyright treaty restrict digital rights?

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.

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Mandelson seeks sweeping powers to enforce copyright

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...

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More on the “secret copyright treaty”

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,...

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Technology Is Stranger Than Fiction

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...

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AP Redefines Fair Use

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...

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Viacom's Top Lawyer Thinks Lawsuits Were "Terrorism" – But He's Learned Nothing From the...

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...

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Media baron Murdoch cries foul

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...

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Britain's new internet law,

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...

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