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24 Jun 2011, 12:46 pm by Andrew McDiarmid
6/24/2011 Author:  Andrew McDiarmid Digital Copyright More Issues in Digital Copyright This week, an impressive list of tech venture capitalists sent a letter to the Senate opposing the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) on the grounds that it will slow innovation by interfering with the… [read post]
24 Jun 2011, 12:15 pm by Andrew McDiarmid
6/24/2011 Author:  Andrew McDiarmid International Internet Openness & Standards Internet Neutrality Wednesday, the Dutch parliament passed a balanced and sensible set of internet neutrality rules, thus becoming the first country in Europe,… [read post]
21 Jun 2011, 10:28 am by Andrew McDiarmid
6/21/2011 Author:  Andrew McDiarmid Free Expression More Issues in Free Expression Last week, we learned that the owner of two domains seized as part of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE’s) “Operation in Our Sites” had filed a petition in court to have… [read post]
6 May 2011, 2:15 pm by Andrew McDiarmid
5/6/2011 Author:  Andrew McDiarmid Digital Copyright Secondary Liability Yesterday, Mozilla’s Harvey Anderson posted on his blog that the foundation was resisting joining Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in a game of copyright Whac-a-Mole. [read post]
27 Apr 2011, 2:29 pm by Mary
., Andrew McDiarmid, Reader Privacy Issues Remain Following Google Books Settlement Rejection, CENTER FOR DEMOCRACY AND TECHNOLOGY BLOG, April 13, 2011, http://cdt.org/blogs/andrew-mcdiarmid/reader-privacy-issues-remain-following-google-books-settlement-rejection. 4 See Cindy Cohn and Kathryn Hashimoto, The Case for Book Privacy Parity: Google Books and the Shift from Offline to Online Reading, HARV. [read post]
13 Apr 2011, 3:26 pm by Andrew McDiarmid
4/13/2011 Author:  Andrew McDiarmid Consumer Privacy Security & Surveillance More Issues in Consumer Privacy More Issues in Security & Surveillance With the long-awaited decision on the Google… [read post]
12 Apr 2011, 6:41 am by Andrew McDiarmid
4/12/2011 Author:  Andrew McDiarmid Internet Openness & Standards Internet Neutrality As expected following two hearings on the subject, the House voted on Friday to repeal the FCC’s Open Internet rules. [read post]
23 Mar 2011, 12:43 pm by Andrew McDiarmid
3/23/2011 Author:  Andrew McDiarmid Digital Copyright More Issues in Digital Copyright The lawsuit many have called potentially the most important development in digital copyright law since the DMCA entered a new phase yesterday, when Judge Denny Chin rejected the Google Book Search… [read post]
17 Feb 2011, 12:57 pm by Andrew McDiarmid
2/17/2011 Author:  Andrew McDiarmid Internet Openness & Standards Internet Neutrality Yesterday, while the Senate Judiciary Committee was contemplating COICA’s risky architectural remedies to thwart online intellectual property infringement (see David Sohn’s thoughts… [read post]
17 Feb 2011, 12:45 pm by Andrew McDiarmid
2/17/2011 Author:  Andrew McDiarmid Free Expression More Issues in Free Expression One of our primary concerns with seizing and blocking entire domains to combat illegal content is the risk that doing so can impact much more than just the bad stuff, including protected lawful speech. [read post]
20 Jan 2011, 2:14 pm by Andrew McDiarmid
1/20/2011 Author:  Andrew McDiarmid Digital Copyright More Issues in Digital Copyright Last year's Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act (COICA) was a hot topic at State of the Net earlier this week. [read post]
2 Dec 2010, 7:28 am by Andrew McDiarmid
12/2/2010 Author:  Andrew McDiarmid Digital Copyright More Issues in Digital Copyright Anyone wondering just how easy it will be to circumvent the domain-name system blocking proposed in the Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act (COICA) received an object lesson last… [read post]
22 Nov 2010, 9:24 am by Andrew McDiarmid
11/22/2010 Author:  Andrew McDiarmid Digital Copyright More Issues in Digital Copyright More Issues in Free Expression Last week, CDT filed comments with the Department of Commerce’s Internet Policy Task Force, in response to its notice… [read post]
17 Nov 2010, 1:31 pm by Andrew McDiarmid
11/17/2010 Author:  Andrew McDiarmid Digital Copyright More Issues in Digital Copyright More Issues in Free Expression Late in September, we expressed serious concerns over the Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act. [read post]
8 Oct 2010, 11:31 am by Andrew McDiarmid
10/8/2010 Author:  Andrew McDiarmid Digital Copyright More Issues in Digital Copyright The Ohio Democratic Party recently put up a web video pointing out that a “steelworker” in a recent ad from the Republican gubernatorial candidate was actually a paid actor playing the… [read post]
6 Oct 2010, 8:34 am by Ben Sheffner
Readers of this blog will be familiar with many of the incidents described in the report, but the author, CDT Policy Analyst Andrew McDiarmid, also unearths a few I was not aware of. [read post]
6 Oct 2010, 7:12 am by Andrew McDiarmid
10/6/2010 Author:  Andrew McDiarmid Digital Copyright More Issues in Digital Copyright A few weeks ago, Fox News and Chris Wallace sued a Missouri candidate for the U.S. [read post]
28 Sep 2010, 10:59 am by Andrew McDiarmid
9/28/2010 Author:  Andrew McDiarmid Digital Copyright Free Expression More Issues in Digital Copyright More Issues in Free Expression CDT released a memo today detailing major concerns with S. 3804,… [read post]
11 Aug 2010, 7:56 am by Andrew McDiarmid
8/11/2010 Author:  Andrew McDiarmid Internet Openness & Standards Internet Neutrality It’s hot this week in DC, but that didn’t stop Google and Verizon from pouring gasoline on the debate over Internet neutrality rules. [read post]
20 Jul 2010, 10:16 am by Andrew McDiarmid
7/20/2010 Author:  Andrew McDiarmid Internet Openness & Standards Internet Neutrality One of the main sticking points in the FCC debate over reclassifying Internet service is likely to be whether DNS service makes carriers’ entire offering into a unified information service… [read post]