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Local Governments Can Work Around Problems in the TV Marketplace Themselves,...
— By John Bergmayer The laws around broadcasting and the retransmission of broadcast signals by cable and satellite companies are built up around a set of assumptions. One of the most basic is that...
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Federal Privacy Legislation Should Not Be Based on Data Ownership
— By Dylan Gilbert There’s nothing wrong with saying that you “own” data. Public Knowledge has supported data ownership as a colloquialism that reflects an intuition: Data about us provides information...
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Open Access to Teaching Material – How Far Have We Come?
One of the foundational aims of the open access movement, set out in the Budapest Open Access Initiative, was to provide access to research not only to scholars, but to “teachers, students and other...
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A Balanced Approach to Copyright Reform
— By Mart Kuhn On July 1, the US Department of Commerce’s Internet Policy Task Force organized a day-long symposium titled “Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Information Economy.” The...
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Do the Visually Impaired Need Their Own Acta?
— By John Bergmayer Last week, the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR)—part of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a United Nations body, failed to make any...
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What Do Twilight and a U.S. Senate Candidate Have in Common? Bad Copyright
— By Katy Tasker There have been two IP-concerned stories getting a lot of attention on the interwebs the past few days: first, there was the Summit Entertainment-issued DMCA takedown notice for the...
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