Ukranians faced off riot police yesterday in Independence Square, a tense scene that ended peacefully for now, with police forces withdrawing. The protests are sparked by anger over president Viktor Yanukovich’s apparent stonewalling on signing a trade deal with the EU that would further emancipate the fledgling democracy from its former Soviet occupiers. The pact would bring badly needed investment into ...
Y’know how some of us keep saying the Silicon Valley agenda is not progressive and that it’s anti-copyright (think labor rights) positions are not in any way about YOU the users of its wondrous TUBES? Well, welcome to the real face of Google, which may start to look a lot more like a portrait of Grover Norquist than its progressive ...
Ever heard of the Trans-Pacific Partnership? Okay, if you’re an internet issues follower, then yes, you’ve heard of these international trade negotiations still underway. If you’re one of the other 180 or so million adult Americans, you probably haven’t. And that works out to be very convenient for the self-proclaimed protectors of Internet freedom, if you’re inclined to believe the ...
Yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing meant to lay some of the groundwork for overhauling copyright law in the United States. The title of the hearing is “A Case Study in Consensus Building: The Copyright Principles Project,” suggesting that the “project” is about establishing premises and ground rules for how the debate might be framed going forward. I ...
We hear a lot about community and free expression when it comes to the Web. From tech bloggers to legal scholars, the boosters spare little praise for the social benefits of technologically connected groups. Some cyber gurus even go so far as to predict that these new communities are already spawning a new, populist dialogue that will ultimately change the ...
