Living And Nonliving Things

Mike Godiwn and Jon L. discuss SOPA, PIPA, and the Internet

• #57: Ted Newcomb (tcn) Thu 2 Feb 12 02:25
  TPP - Looks like it's going to be the battle of the acronyms:http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/son-of-acta-meet-the-next-secret-copyright-treaty.ars [Read entire topic] […]
• #56: Ted Newcomb (tcn) Mon 30 Jan 12 06:36
  http://beta620.nytimes.com/viewer/times-skimmer/ Big Victory on Internet Buoys Lobby:In some ways, it was the awakening of a generation that has come to rely on its right to digital freedom. *What this did show is as a citizen in the Internet age, you have to add the Internet and your digital rights and liberties onto the list of things you need to be worrie […]
• #55: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Sun 29 Jan 12 10:36
  Mike, to your question about the links: it sounds like the link was copied after using the "scroll" feature that specifies a specific range of links. I.e. if you spedified a link parameter &q=0-49You would only see the first 49 posts. created an tinyurl link that will show the first page of the conversation, with a "more" link to subs […]
• #54: Ed Ward (captward) Sun 29 Jan 12 08:31
  Ah, I missed that! [Read entire topic] […]
• #53: Rob Myers (robmyers) Sun 29 Jan 12 07:26
  Copyright is generally 70 years after death in the EU, and an extension for recording copyright from 50 to 70 years after production was sneaked in last year:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14882146This was galling for those of us who'd beaten back the proposal the last couple of times, but given the white heat of entitlement that ageing po […]
• #52: Mike Godwin (mnemonic) Sat 28 Jan 12 12:42
  , I'm noticing some inkwell.vue links don't show more recent postings (e.g., posting #50 above) -- is this some sort of glitch, or a delay in propagation, or something else? I've been sharing links to folks outside the WELL, and I notice that some Web links stop with posting #49. [Read entire topic] […]
• #51: Ed Ward (captward) Sat 28 Jan 12 12:40
  Let me toss something into the queue here about expiration of copyright. One of the big deals currently is that copyright expires in Europe 50 years after publication, if I'm not mistaken, and next year we're going to see the first of the Beatles catalog go public domain.Now, I doubt that Paul McCartney will starve as a result (not sure about Ringo […]
• #50: Mike Godwin (mnemonic) Sat 28 Jan 12 12:07
  Jon, on Thursday you asked what other legal issues affecting cyberspace law and policy are lurking out there that we ought to be aware of. One of the obvious areas is privacy: especially in nations outside the United States, there are strong, comprehensive privacy laws that are frequently used these days to compel internet companies to remove content. At Wik […]
• #49: Mike Godwin (mnemonic) Sat 28 Jan 12 11:34
  Sorry for having been largely out of touch Friday -- it was one of those days where sudden events end up pulling me out of my office and handling meetings the whole day. So let me try to catch up to some outstanding question.Jon, you actually have a couple in the queue, so let me tackle them first. A while back -- Tuesday -- you asked whether "we really […]
• #48: Ted Newcomb (tcn) Fri 27 Jan 12 02:33
  Mike, when you have a chance, can you explain ACTA and how it impacts this discussion? This seems to be the agreement we are going to live with at the moment, more narrowly defined. [Read entire topic] […]