A couple copyright-related stories that warm the cockles of my Canadian heart...
While the inclusion of China and Russia on the "Priority Watch List"
isn't surprising, the report also has strong words for a more
surprising: Canada.
ESA, IIPA slam Canada for not fixing copyright "deficiencies"
Sources indicate that the CBC is set to become the first major North
American broadcaster to freely release one of its programs without DRM
using BitTorrent. This Sunday, CBC will air Canada Next Great Prime Minister.
The following day, it plans to freely release a high-resolution version
via peer-to-peer networks without any DRM restrictions. This
development is important not only because it shows that Canada's public
broadcaster is increasingly willing to experiment with alternative
forms of distribution, but also because it may help crystallize the net
neutrality issue in Canada.
(via Michael Geist)
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IIPA Slam Canada For Not Fixing Copyright "Deficiencies", CBC to release program via BitTorrent DRM-free
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Wednesday, March 5
Obama: Politics 2.0
by
Jason
on Wed 05 Mar 2008 10:54 PM CST
I've been reading a lot about the race for the Democratic nomination in the US between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
This article from the New York Times caught my eye for doing a particularly good job of capturing the essence of the differences between their campaigns - Clinton, a baby boomer, is part of the establishment who sees politics as a fight between "us vs. them". Obama, technically also a boomer but younger, is much more open, accessible, collaborative, and inclusive in how he operates his campaign and how he comes across generally. And where have you heard those words before? Oh yeah, in every buzzword-laden article written about Web 2.0 in the last few years. For people raised on Jane Jacobs, who
emphasized how a spontaneous dynamic order could emerge from thousands
of individual decisions, [Obama's political message] is a persuasive way of seeing the world.
For young people who have grown up on Facebook, YouTube, open-source
software and an array of decentralized networks, this is a compelling
theory of how change happens. |
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