Posts Tagged ‘law’
Internet Freedom Day – Martin Luther King
Internet Freedom Day – Martin Luther King

Internet Freedom Day, the anniversary of the largest internet protest (against SOPA) is being celebrated around the world wide web with an act of civil disobedience to simultaneously honour Aaron Swartz. If SOPA had been passed I could go to jail for posting this video. It is copyrighted – even though it is a record […]

Breaking The Internet
Breaking The Internet

There has been a lot of noise recently about various legal and quasi-legal attempts to hand control of the internet over to corporate interests all in the loudly proclaimed causes of protecting intellectual property and saving the children. This is, of course, pure horseshit. I’ve embedded here two different documents for you to peruse at […]

Too Much Copyright – Reason.TV
Too Much Copyright – Reason.TV

Zach Weissmueller presents this Reason.TV piece addressing the fucked up nature of US copyright law. It’s a very interesting discussion with law professor Tom Bell and Ben Sheffner who is the head counsel for the MPAA and Ben Huh, the founder of Cheezeburger. After you hear what they have to say be sure to check […]