The well-publicized court trials of Jammie Thomas-Rasset and Joel Tenenbaum have brought the issue of copyright infringers penalization into the public eye. For some background on the two cases: Jammie Thomas-Rasset was charged with illegally sharing 24 copyrighted songs. Her original ruling was to pay $222,000 in statutory damages. After fighting this ruling, Thomas-Rasset went [...]
Google Buzz had created quite a bit buzz around the online community, but if you hold against the idea that “The age of privacy is over” by Mark Zuckerberg, you may want to check your setting for Google Buzz. To be more specific about Google Buzz. By default, it automatically sets you up with followers [...]
This is an interesting news article that I came across while reading the CNN website today. http://money.cnn.com/2010/02/10/technology/google_iran_gmail/index.htm To summarize the news article, it says that Iran has decided to ban gmail in the country since it plans to implement a national email. So, it means that Iranians will have their own emails which (hopefully) will [...]
In April 2008, the National Institutes of Health’s Public Access Policy took effect and requests that ” all articles arising from NIH funds must be submitted to PubMed Central upon acceptance for publication”. One year’s later, a bill, Federal Research Public Access Act of 2009 was introduced, requiring other Federal agencies to develop public access [...]
© is the copyright symbol There is an interesting debate over the purpose of copyright being highlighted in many popular blogs. Last week Matt Yglesias wrote a blog post on the struggle of RIAA against free content. Yglesias says: “It is, of course, possible that at some point the digital music situation will start imperiling [...]
“In a world of digital network media, copyright policy isn’t just about how to incentivise the product ion of a certain type of artistic commodity. It’s about what level of control we are going to permit to be exercised over our social realities. Social realities that are now inevitably permeated by pop culture. I think [...]
Few weeks ago we briefly discussed about facebook’s TOS in class, and one of them caught my attention. “For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (“IP content”), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, [...]
I decided to look into this topic after our animated in-class discussion about whether the ISPs are the best people to keep a check on infringement occurring on their networks. I know this has been an argument for sometime now but I feel that with recent case that happened in Australia which I have spoken about later, [...]
A few weeks ago a story broke around Google being hacked into by a group of people that were trying to access the email accounts of Human Rights activists that support changes in China. While the details of this break-in are widely reported, very few actual details about the break-in have been reported. Google has [...]
While software/service design is going be more and more user-centered and user-value sensitive, would the data privacy laws/principles be the same way? When I was talking with a Google product manager last month about privacy issues, he said as long as the company 1) let the users know how it handles private data, 2) be [...]
