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Less than Zero — Backchannel — Medium
A concept well worth reflecting on: when is “free” not neutral? This article goes through the ins and outs of what it really means when carriers exempt certain apps from data charges, and not others. What do “net neutrality” rules have to look like to be meaningful and not a commercially manipulative sham? Read more […]
Weekly Student-Hour: 20 January 2015
Hello, My name is Ryan, and I’m taking the first “student-hour” of the semester (feel free to bring fruit to throw). The topic is going to be: Open Source Licensing and Other Examples of Open Source. There’s just one reading: Jacobsen v Katzer. Sorry about getting it out so close to Tuesday’s class, but it’s […]
Writers Say They Feel Censored by Surveillance – NYTimes.com
How is this for disturbing – hardly the percentage difference between “free” and “not free” countries you might wish for: “Some 75 percent of respondents in countries classified as “free,” 84 percent in “partly free” countries, and 80 percent in countries that were “not free” said that they were “very” or “somewhat” worried about government […]
News of the Week Top 5; January 14, 2015
1. ‘Anonymous’ Member Calls For Revenge On Terrorists For Charlie Hebdo Massacre 2. Code Is Law: But law is increasingly determining the ethics of code. (Jonathon Penney) 3. Stop sketching, little girl — those paintings are copyrighted! 4. Rightscorp and BMG Exploiting Copyright Notice-and-Notice System: Citing False Legal Information in Payment Demands (Michael Geist) 5. Copyright and Inequality (Lea Shaver) jon
Class 2 Slides; January 13, 2015
In all their glory 😉
Charlie Hebdo Tragedy
In the syllabus and in last weeks introduction to the course I suggested a living lab model of learning might serve this course rather well. The notion behind that thought was that so much is happening in the world in relation to law and media, that bringing that into class every week would ground us in relevance. […]
Important read for Tuesdays class: Internet Under Fire Gets New Manifesto — Backchannel — Medium
Please read the following in preparation for a class collaborative effort this Tuesday where we begin to imagine a “Charter of Digital Rights”: Internet Under Fire Gets New Manifesto — Backchannel — Medium. jon
News of the Week Top 5; January 7, 2015
1. Novelists, poets, cartoonists respond to attacks on Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris 2. Who’s the true enemy of internet freedom – China, Russia, or the US?: Beijing and Moscow are rightly chastised for restricting their citizens’ online access – but it’s the US that is now even more aggressive in asserting its digital sovereignty (Evgeny Morozov) […]
How Martin Luther King film Selma was made without quoting civil rights leader | Daily Mail Online
How Martin Luther King film Selma was made without quoting civil rights leader | Daily Mail Online. This article will be among the topics for our first class. Issues of note: 1. Why didn’t Paramount sue for a declaratory judgment? 2. Does Hollywood have a vested interest in not strengthening the fair use exception to […]
The Interview/Sony/Hack: A Message in a Bottle
Our eldest daughter has a phrase she is fond of using on the frequent occasions where my understanding of her cultural touchpoints comes up empty. “It’s a thing, Dad. It really is.” she will say in order to efficiently dismiss my profound lack of knowledge while at the same time assuring me that she fully […]