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News of the Week Top 5; April 1, 2015
1. China Uses Unencrypted Websites to Hijack Browsers in GitHub Attack 2. Ellen Pao’s Statement On Losing The Kleiner Perkins Case: “The Battle Was Worth It” 3. How C-51 undermines privacy (Lisa M. Austin, Benjamin J. Goold, Avner Levin and Andrea Slane) 4. Facebook tracks logged-out users in ‘violation’ of EU law, study says 5. Bell censorship: the status quo […]
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At the end of the Week 12 slides I briefly did a recap of some slides from a keynote presentation I gave to the Law Society of Upper Canada’s Media & Communications Law Conference in 2011. Those slides touch on the theme of how to nurture the freedoms that result in creativity with a desire […]
Class 12 Slides; March 31, 2015
Here they are… jon
News of the Week Top 5; April 25, 2015
1. Bell’s Crull Banned CRTC Chair Blais From CTV News Coverage Following TalkTV Decision 2. The new authoritarianism (Sergi Guriev & Daniel Treisman) 3. Russia Will Deploy “Digital Fingerprinting” to Enforce Copyright Online 4. Canadian Bar Association condemns Harper’s anti-terror bill: The group representing law professionals argues the bill’s “vague and overly broad language” could chill expressions of dissent. […]
Class 10 & 11 Slides; March 17 & 24, 2015
Here they are in combined form. jon
Remixing Culture And Why The Art Of The Mash-Up Matters | TechCrunch
The title tells all about the relevance to the course. A thoughtful piece worth the read: Remixing Culture And Why The Art Of The Mash-Up Matters | TechCrunch. jon
News of the Week Top 5; March 18, 2015
1. It’s time for the FBI to prosecute Gamergate trolls (Brianna Wu) 2. Twitter puts trillions of tweets up for sale to data miners: Company plans to make content generated by users available to commerce, academia and even police involved in crowd control 3. We can’t accept Internet surveillance as the new normal 4. No copyright and trade-mark […]
Class 9 Slides; March 10, 2015
Here are the slides from Class 9. jon
Class 8 Slides; March 3, 2015
A bit belatedly, here are the slides from our Class 8 contextual survey. jon
News of the Week Top 5; March 11, 2015
1. Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke to pay $7.4m to Marvin Gaye’s family over Blurred Lines: Jury decides Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke copied 1977 hit Got to Give It Up in lawsuit filed by Gaye’s children 2. Raising the Broadcast White Flag: What Lies Behind Bell’s Radical Plan to Raise TV Fees, Block Content, Violate […]