Jon Udell has posted his proposed topic for the Open Source Content Management conference next month: “All you need to know about content management, you learned in kindergarten.” If widescale adoption of Content Management systems is a goal, then I wonder if the term “Content Management” is might sound too complicated or techie for low-tech users or managers … Read more
JZ this morning regarding Google’s power and responsibility in the New York Times: “They’re the traffic cop at the main intersection of the information society. They have an awesome responsibility.” Given how regulated some Net entities are — like cable companies, all manner of telecomms providers, ICANN — it’s remarkable how relatively unregulated Google and … Read more
I suppose that the DMCA is here to stay — at least until the Congress comes to its senses. We have keep talking about how to deal with it. The university setting offers an interesting case-study in how to live with the law.
Harvard College Dean Harry Lewis puts student file-swappers on notice. The DMCA puts the college in a very dicey spot.
Rumor has it that default RSS feeds are getting (cc)ed. Userland, Movable Type, possibly Blogger post-google-acquisition. Terra-Lycos, google, LiveJournal, others offering blogs to the masses, are you in?
The sheer volume of the news about the Iraq war is overwhelming. It used to be that I thought that the news media shuffled through what was important to read and then presented it manageably. Now I need some way to manage all the news sources. (No, thanks, google, not that way). It’s sort of like … Read more
Ben today released a new report in his and JZ‘s series of analyses on Internet filtering. I consider this research among the most important strains of thinking underway in Internet law today. Their piece to tie it all together — China, Saudi Arabia, Google, other filterers — will be a great read.
As usual, Derek “I’m not a lawyer” Slater manages an insightful analysis of part of what’s bothering me about the current copyright understanding related to content on blogs, the syndication and aggregation process, etc.
The lawsuit brought by Berkman student fellow Ben Edelman has prompted even those sympathetic to the cause of a free and open net to note that the “standing problem” in the case was too great to overcome. Perhaps. But I think the message of this lawsuit is larger than whether someone in a particular legal … Read more
A US federal judge today dismissed Ben Edelman‘s lawsuit to ensure that he could conduct research on filtering software. Ben wanted to be certain that he could conduct legitimate legal research on filtering software without violating the DMCA, other federal laws, and the user agreement from N2H2. This loss is yet another reason why the DMCA and … Read more