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arnie Grossblatt

The Return Of The Broadcast Treaty | Techdirt - 1 views

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    See how public domain material moves into the non-public domain.
arnie Grossblatt

Public Domain Day - 1 views

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    Accounting of what enters the public domain this new year's day, and a look at what could have been.
arnie Grossblatt

China tries to control free speech through Internet - 0 views

  • is happy state of affairs could be close to an end.
  • his will make the Web more accessible to non-English-speakers but also will lead to tricky issues, such as whether dissidents in China or Iran will be permitted to have their own dot-addresses. How would Beijing respond to a Chinese-language domain that translates into .democracy or .limitedgovernment, perhaps hosted by computers in Taipei or Vancouver?
  • he U.N. model of Internet governance is highly unsatisfactory from a human-rights and free-expression point of view for obvious reasons,” she told me. “The Chinese and the Iranians and various other authoritarian countries will insist on standards and rules that make dissent more difficult, destroy the possibility of anonymity, and facilitate surveillance.”
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  • I think the question here is not about which governments have the moral right to lead Internet governance over others,” Ms. MacKinnon argues, “but about whether it’s appropriate that Internet governance should be the sole province of governments, many of which do not arguably represent the interests of Internet users in their countries because they were not democratically elected
Amy Spears

GPO Expands Collection of eBooks - 1 views

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    The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has expanded its collection of eBooks to more than 200 titles. GPO and Google formed a partnership in 2010 to convert Government publications into eBook format and make the eBooks available through Google's eBookstore. GPO and Google's endeavor has increased Government transparency by making Government publications accessible to the public in a digital format.
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    Am I wrong to think that these ebooks should be free if the goal is government transparency?
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