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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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…
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Towards a bigger, better broadband future
(Extended cross-post from Google Public Policy Blog) Broadband deployment in the U.S. is at best disappointing and at worst a crisis. The United States lags behind other countries in broadband uptake per capita, ranked 15th…
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Google Policy Fellowships: A Dream Come True For Aspiring Tech Policy Wonks
If code is law and architecture is policy, then a Summer of Policy is a natural complement to Google’s Summer of Code. That’s exactly what Google announced yesterday — a new Policy Fellowship program offering…
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Katyal’s “Semiotic Disobedience”
If you haven’t already read Sonia Katyal’s “Privacy v. Piracy” and “The New Surveillance,” you should. The articles have proven quite prescient — with the Sony DRM rootkit and AT&T’s announcement about forthcoming ISP-level filtering,…
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A Programming Note
For those still tuning in, writing is likely to stay sporadic for a bit as I’m changing jobs. I’m starting a new gig as a Policy Analyst on Google’s public policy team, which means you…
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iTunes Ringtones: Making You Pay Again For Music You Already Own
Tired of paying several dollars to buy ringtone versions of music you already own? When it comes to songs ripped from your CD collection or downloaded MP3s, widely-available software tools allow you to roll your…
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Mark Lemley’s One Safe Harbor to Rule Them All
Prof. Lemley works through how we might standardize and unify Internet intermediary safe harbors across the board, from defamation to copyright and beyond. Read his paper here. (Via Eric Goldman)