“Heads, I win. Tails, you lose.” by Masnick
Okay, this video is three years old, but it’s still relevant because it represents a persistent, underlying faith in an “economic model” that enables even well-meaning people to think they’re doing the...
View ArticleThe Wicked and Dissembling Glass
Last week, MPAA CEO Christopher Dodd spoke in San Francisco about fostering better collaboration between the entertainment and Internet industries. Not surprisingly, two voices from the tech industry,...
View ArticleCopyright Principles & Consensus?
Yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing meant to lay some of the groundwork for overhauling copyright law in the United States. The title of the hearing is “A Case Study in Consensus...
View ArticleDr. King & the Public Domain
Every time a Martin Luther King anniversary comes around, the anti-copyright armada is well armed with blogs and articles decrying the indecency that the civil rights leader’s words and recordings are...
View Article“More YouTube’s” My Foot
First of all, name if you can the serious competitors of any of the following: Facebook, YouTube, Amazon, eBay, Twitter, Google. Go back ten years, name the biggest sites on the web, and you might...
View ArticleTechdirt’s Masnick reveals own irrelevance.
Mike Masnick, editor and founder of Techdirt often writes like a smug frat boy, substituting scorn for ideas, and is frequently careless about fact-checking. This may be be why his mantra sounds...
View ArticleShould Revenge Porn Be a Federal Crime?
First, for those lucky enough not to know, “revenge porn” is the term used to describe the practice (usually by disgruntled ex-boyfriends) of distributing nude or sexually explicit images of people via...
View ArticleAurous has nothing to do with SOPA
The recording industry last week filed suit against a new music platform called Aurous. With a Spotify-like interface, the app is designed to search, retrieve, and play music files, whether they’re...
View ArticleClinton equivocates so Masnick obfuscates.
Last week, Hillary Clinton released her Initiative on Technology and Innovation, brief, which reads a bit like a missive from the Internet Association and does very little to clarify her own...
View ArticleThe DOJ & Songwriters Simplified (mostly)
The performing rights organization (PRO) called ASCAP was formed on February 13, 1914 when a group of about 100 American composers met at the Hotel Claridge in New York City to create a mechanism for...
View ArticleCritics Build House of Canards to Trash USCO Bill
Photo by jeancol1503 Well, here we go. The network of copyright critics seems to be working out their main talking points for hating on H.R. 1695, which proposes to make the Register of Copyrights a...
View ArticleSirius XM Takedown of Stern/Trump Interviews Is Not Censorship
The implication that copyright is fundamentally a tool of censorship is a favorite theme among its critics. They rarely miss an opportunity to ring this [...] The post Sirius XM Takedown of...
View ArticleFool me once, shame on Facebook …
In several posts on the subject of Facebook and fake news, I have opined that if we users are going to believe and disseminate bogus [...] The post Fool me once, shame on Facebook … appeared first on...
View ArticlePlatforms Wrestle With the Difficult After Years of Ignoring the Easy
A new, in-depth post by Mike Masnick at Techdirt correctly describes many of the challenges inherent to platform moderation of content. It was enough of [...] The post Platforms Wrestle With the...
View ArticleThe DOJ & Songwriters Simplified (mostly)
The performing rights organization (PRO) called ASCAP was formed on February 13, 1914 when a group of about 100 American composers met at the Hotel Claridge in New York City to create a mechanism for...
View ArticleCritics Build House of Canards to Trash USCO Bill
Photo by jeancol1503 Well, here we go. The network of copyright critics seems to be working out their main talking points for hating on H.R. 1695, which proposes to make the Register of Copyrights a...
View ArticleSirius XM Takedown of Stern/Trump Interviews Is Not Censorship
The implication that copyright is fundamentally a tool of censorship is a favorite theme among its critics. They rarely miss an opportunity to ring this particular bell when the chance presents...
View ArticleFool me once, shame on Facebook …
In several posts on the subject of Facebook and fake news, I have opined that if we users are going to believe and disseminate bogus information, that’s mostly an us problem, one which Facebook likely...
View ArticlePlatforms Wrestle With the Difficult After Years of Ignoring the Easy
A new, in-depth post by Mike Masnick at Techdirt correctly describes many of the challenges inherent to platform moderation of content. It was enough of a departure from his usual “anything goes”...
View ArticleOn New Models, Journalism, and Digital Advertising
It was encouraging to see our most prominent millennial Member of Congress, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) recognize the link between a healthy democracy a professional class of journalists. On Friday,...
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