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The Copy Left/ What is Art For ?
LEWIS HYDE ON WALDEN POND The Cultural Commons In the late 1990s, Lewis Hyde began extending his lifelong project of examining the public life of the imagination into what had become newly topical territory: the cultural commons. The advent of Internet file-sharing services like Napster and Gnutella sparked urgent debates over how ...
MySpace Believes in Japanese Music's Appeal
TOKYO - Banking on the global appeal of Japanese pop and video games, social networking site MySpace said it would more than double the number of artists on its Japanese pages to get more clicks internationally. The growth of new sign-ups and page views is slowing in Japan for rival networking services such as mixi Inc, ...
Disc Shelf: A Place to Release Albums
Recently a service for musicians was opened. The service is called Disc Shelf and allows musicians to upload their music and present it to their listeners in form of albums: singles, EPs, LPs, promo discs and WIPs (work in progress). Each album receives a unique URL for distribution. The whole idea of the project is to ...
Comcast Expands 50-Mbit Service to Ore., Wash.
Starting next month, Comcast will expand its revamped “wideband" service, which offers speeds up to 50 Mbits/s, to Oregon and southwest Washington state. The cable provider started rolling out wideband in Minneapolis-St. Paul earlier this year and expanded to Boston, southern New Hampshire, and areas of Philadelphia and New Jersey in October. Wideband, also known as ...
The Worst Tech Problem? 'The Internet's Down'
Most of us have been plagued with a blue screen of death, a laptop that refuses to connect to a home wireless network, or a cell phone that just doesn't feel like making calls. About 48 percent of technology users have encountered such problems with their devices in the last year, according to a Sunday report ...
Harvard Law Prof Takes On RIAA in Music Copyright Fight
Law professor fires back at song-swapping lawsuits The music industry's courtroom campaign against people who share songs online is coming under counterattack. A Harvard Law School professor has launched a constitutional assault against a federal copyright law at the heart of the industry's aggressive strategy, which has wrung payments from thousands of song-swappers since 2003. The ...
Napster Judge Calls for Major Copyright Reform
Judge Miriam Hall Patel, who presided over the case that killed off original Napster, proposed a bold plan Monday to reform copyright for the digital age by creating a new public/private organization with authority over the licensing and enforcement of copyright. There needs to be a comprehensive revision of the provisions that relate to the administration ...
Net Neutrality Advocates in Charge of Obama Team Review of FCC
Network Neutrality The Obama-Biden transition team on Friday named two long-time net neutrality advocates to head up its Federal Communications Commission Review team. Susan Crawford, a visiting professor of internet and communications law at Yale Law School, and Kevin Werbach, a former FCC staffer, organizer of the annual tech conference Supernova, and a Wharton ...
Senator Pushes for Net Neutrality Legislation
WASHINGTON - A senior U.S. lawmaker plans to introduce a bill in January that would bar Internet providers like AT&T Inc from blocking Web content, setting up a renewed battle over so-called network neutrality. Sen. Byron Dorgan, a North Dakota Democrat, believes a law is essential to prevent telephone and cable companies from discriminating against Internet ...
Youtube Adds Sponsored Videos
NEW YORK, Nov 12 (Reuters) - YouTube, the popular online video sharing site owned by Google, said on Wednesday it will roll out a new sponsored videos format, the latest step in its drive to grow revenues through advertising. The sponsored videos program is designed to enable video creators, from everyday users to major advertisers, to ...
