A Copyfighter’s Musings
Discussion of copyright law and policy issues focused on developing optimum copyright law.
Author: Derek Slater is a member of the Harvard University Class of 2006 who was the first undergraduate to be named a student fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. He presently works at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil rights organization based in San Francisco.
Blawg Related Categories: Legal Theory • Copyright Law
Recent Posts from A Copyfighter’s Musings
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Homes with very messy tails
In Bucharest, neighborhoods formed their own networks in order to bypass incumbents and meet their own needs. Later, these networks transformed into small businesses. My understanding is that the state of affairs is a bit…
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Homes with incredibly short tails
Not quite the same as what Tim Wu and I proposed. But this is a neat demonstration of why ownership is attractive to consumers, and could be attractive to carriers. “In addition to entering an…
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Freedom to Connect 2009: The Emerging Internet Economy
I’ll be speaking on Homes with Tails, or Measurement Lab, or something else. In any case, I’ll be there, and you should too. F2C: Who, What, When, Where, Why http://www.freedom-to-connect.net WHO: F2C is a meeting…
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Introducing Measurement Lab
(Cross-posted from Official Google Blog) Posted by Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist, and Stephen Stuart, Principal Engineer When an Internet application doesn’t work as expected or your connection seems flaky, how can you tell whether…
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Homes With Tails, the paper
Download the full paper here. Homes With Tails: What if You Could Own Your Internet Connection? by Derek Slater and Tim Wu America’s communications infrastructure is stuck at a copper wall. For the vast majority of…
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“Homes With Tails,” the presentation, next Friday
Tim Wu and I are going to be presenting our forthcoming paper about customer-owned last-mile broadband connections — ”Homes With Tails” — next Friday at the New America Foundation. For more on the concept, see…
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Blogging Again
Just not here so much. More here. Here’s the latest: What if you could own your internet connection? It may sound strange, and it’s certainly not what we’re used to. Today we have a “carrier-centered”…
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Warner Music Hires Jim Griffin
This is a huge turning point. Jim Griffin has been telling everyone to “monetize the anarchy” for essentially the entire decade. This solution was on the table dating back to Napster. The idea has long…
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The Copyfight.ca
December 2007: Copyright for Canadians Feb. 13, 2008, Google Public Policy blog: “Here in Canada, where there is an ongoing debate about how to best implement the WIPO Copyright Treaty, Google has joined with a…
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Rep. Markey’s new net neutrality legislation
Today, Rep. Ed Markey and Chip Pickering introduced bipartisan legislation to help preserve Internet freedom and explicitly make “net neutrality” a guiding principle of U.S. broadband policy. The bill would affirm that the Internet should…