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HUANHUAN XU

Internet service provider fights copyright law - 0 views

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    A proposed law could force UK Internet service providers to disconnect users who repeatedly share copyrighted files
yunju wang

ABC seeks law ensuring free content on broadband | The Australian - 0 views

  • "This principle of free carriage of publicly funded content should be included in the public interest objectives of the NBN company and the company should be legislatively obliged to devise an effective mechanism for implementing it." The ABC's submission proposed the federal government establish a list of internet addresses that the NBN would exempt from download charges for ISPs. The savings would then be passed on to consumers.
  • Dumping free, state-sponsored news on the market makes it incredibly difficult for journalism to flourish on the internet," he said. "Yet it is essential for the future of independent digital journalism that a fair price can be charged for news to people who value it."
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    THE ABC has called on the federal government to pass laws ensuring consumers won't have to pay to access any publicly funded content carried on the planned national broadband network, a measure that would give it a huge advantage over its commercial rivals.
Tasama Vatanaputi

Opposing cultures - 0 views

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    According to Marcus, digital technology creates two opposing cultures: one is creating works with copyright, another is illegally making use of those works. In the academic world, we are fear of copyright law, but outside the academic world we use the internet to download, mix and create another work. And this is where the Creative Commons arrives.
yunju wang

Digital Publishing Is Scrambling the Industry's Rules - New York Times - 0 views

  • that promise to do for books what the iPod has done for music: making them easily downloadable and completely portable
  • Mr. Benkler said he saw the project as "simply an experiment of how books might be in the future." That is one of the hottest debates in the book world right now, as publishers, editors and writers grapple with the Web's ability to connect readers and writers more quickly and intimately, new technologies that make it easier to search books electronically and the advent of digital devices that promise to do for books what the iPod has done for music: making them easily downloadable and completely portable.
  • For unknown authors struggling to capture the attention of busy readers, however, the Web offers an unprecedented way to catapult out of obscurity.
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  • For many authors, the question of how technology will shape book publishing inevitably leads to the question of how writers will be paid.
  • books themselves are a relatively new construct, inheritors of a longstanding oral storytelling culture. Mass-produced books are an even newer phenomenon, enabled by the invention of the printing press that likely put legions of calligraphers and bookbinders out of business.
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    Yochai Benkler, a Yale University law professor and author of the new book "The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom" (Yale University Press), has gone even farther: his entire book is available - free - as a download from his Web site. Between 15,000 and 20,000 people have accessed the book electronically, with some of them adding comments and links to the online version.
yunju wang

Anti-video-game Crusader Sues Facebook for $40M - PC World - 0 views

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    Thomson is placing a law sue to Facebook, claiming that Facebook has harmed him by not removing angry postings.
Karolina Molka

Zuckerberg's Law of Information Sharing - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Zuckerberg the founder of Facebook predicts that people will share more information naturally in the future.
Craig Betts

Facebook tightens safeguards after Canada talks - Yahoo!7 News - 0 views

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    This is a important step forward and that people are realizing that putting information and pics online is not always that helpful.
Tasama Vatanaputi

Facebook Isn't Private, and 7 Other Things You Should Know « Legal Andrew - 0 views

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    From the discussion in the class about the copyright of whatever we posted in facebook. Here you can see at the number 4.
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