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News of the Week Top 5; March 4, 2015
1. Bring on the lawsuits—FCC chairman says net neutrality will survive: Tom Wheeler confident his net neutrality order will withstand court challenge. 2. Don’t Go Changing: The Canadian Broadcaster Fight Against Legal […]
News of the Week Top 5; February 25, 2015
1. You Had One Job, Lenovo: And it didn’t involve sneaking malicious adware onto your customers’ computers. 2. UK’s House of Lords Calls For Reclassification Of Internet Access As A ‘Public Utility’ […]
Slides from “Impacts & Implications of the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions”
Spoke at this conference at SFU downtown on Wednesday February 25, 2015. My slides as well as a PDF of the 2005 UNESCO Convention can be found below. jon
Class 7 Slides; February 24, 2015
Here they are… jon
News of the Week Top 5; February 18, 2015
1. Why the Copyright Board of Canada Needs a Leafs-Style Tear-Down 2. The Canadian Privacy Cases of 2014 3. How “omnipotent” hackers tied to NSA hid for 14 years—and were found at last: […]
Conference version of “Relating Memes of Justice & Technology”
Though most but far from all of the slides in this presentation to the 2015 SLS Conference at TRU Law on February 5, 2015 have made it into some the […]
“Press Start: Culture, Industry, and Innovation in Japanese Gaming” conference @ UBC – February 27 & 28, 2015
Video games are within the purview of this course but because of the “other” course we have generally stayed away from the subject. That said the conference at UBC t […]
News of the Week Top 5; February 11, 2015
1. An Open Letter to Prime Minister Cameron: 20th-century solutions won’t help 21st-century surveillance (Jonathan Zittrain) 2. US’s ‘Naughty List’ Of Countries Whose Intellectual Property Rules We Don’t Like Is A Joke […]
Class 5 & 6 Slides; February 3 & 10, 2015
Have remixed the last two sets of slides into one (hopefully coherent) whole… jon
DailyDirt: Paper Airplanes For Fun And Profit | Techdirt
After last weeks festivities it’s a bit hard to ignore this piece from techdirt: DailyDirt: Paper Airplanes For Fun And Profit | Techdirt. jon