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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 and Regulatory Reform (Michael Geist) 3. Storytelling In The Digital Media Age 4. Why Hollywood Refuses to Embrace Diversity — Even Though It Makes More Money 5. ‘Pics […]
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’ 3. Google: Proposed government-sanctioned hacking is a threat to us all – “The implications of this expansion of warrant power are significant.” 4. Something Is Going Right: […]
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: “Equation Group” ran the most advanced hacking operation ever uncovered. 4. Russia Reaches The Censorship Endgame: Banning VPNs, Tor And Web Proxies 5. Facebook still suspending Native […]
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 decks in this course, thought it might be slightly helpful to anyone really interested in the ideas if the latest full presentation appeared all in […]
“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 his coming Friday and Saturday, February 27 & 28, 2015 may be of some interest. Scholars, players, and designers will come together in a wide […]
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 That’s No Longer Funny 3. Left Shark Bites Back: 3D Printer Sculptor Hires Lawyer To Respond To Katy Perry’s Bogus Takedown 4. Coding Creativity: Copyright and […]
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