G’Day! Since there’s so much gloomy news here in the States, I thought I’d take a moment to note that Australia did a couple of pretty cool things recently.  They legalized same-sex marriage, so good on them for that.  And on the 6th of this month, they introduced a safe harbors provision to their copyright law that would exclude platform ...

Remember when I posted A Guide to Critiquing Copyright in the Digital Age?  Quite a few people read it and seemed to enjoy it, which is cool.  And most recently, it seems that Joshua Lamel, executive director at Re:Create, wrote an article for the Huffington Post about prospective revision to the DMCA, in which he appears to have followed this ...

“I don’t know how that bong got in my sock drawer! And what’s a bong anyway?” When was the last time you used the I Didn’t Know defense; or if you’re a parent, when was the last time you were confronted with the I Didn’t Know defense? Did it work? Not so much, right? But it often feels lately as ...

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