Tag Archives: Digital Britain

Links to 18th May

By take21 | Published: May 18, 2009

Music Limewire – thoughts on their prospects based on a recent interview jeremy1.wordpress.com Publishing Tipping point: Cambridge University Press rescue www.guardian.co.uk and Scribd store www.nytimes.com O’Reilly: Scribd opens storefront for ebooks radar.oreilly.com Espresso on-demand book printer. With video bookshop.blackwell.co.uk Internet and Society CCTV schemes in city and town centres have little effect on crime, says report […]

Posted in Links | Also tagged broadband, Copyright, fair use, Limewire, music royalties, NESTA, open access, P2P, publishing, Scribd, twitter, Zittrain | Comments closed

Links to 15th May

By take21 | Published: May 15, 2009

Europe EUObserver: Commission gives Paris a pass over piracy billhttp://tr.im/lmSs French Senate Sets Up Three-Strikes Clash With Euro Parliament http://tr.im/lg3W French Assembly Finally Approves Three-Strikes By Slim Majority | paidContent:UK http://tumblr.com/xle1rl3p1 Digital Britain #digitalbritain UK Intellect response to Digital Rights Agency. Job done http://tr.im/lkgG CNET iPlayer interview: Anthony Rose on bandwidth, iPhone, not P2P, Air, DRM http://tr.im/ljlU Guardian, Rick Wray: that mobile […]

Posted in Links | Also tagged Copyright, Copyright & IP, EU Telecoms Package, FOSS, journalism, Licences, P2P, Public data, Public Domain | Comments closed

Links to 6th May

By take21 | Published: May 11, 2009

US Senate Sunlight Foundation: Senate posts votes in XML http://bit.ly/Il7hF Europe Telecoms Package #telecomspackage #EU OUT-LAW: European Parliament vetoes telecoms reform, demands court order for ISP disconnection http://tinyurl.com/dd82gb LaQuadrature: Amendment 138/46 adopted again. Internet is a fundamental right in Europe. http://tr.im/kDjJ EU vote: Trautman Citizens Rights amendments adopted! EU parliament live http://tr.im/kDg6 Malcolm Harbour account of EU telecoms packagehttp://tr.im/kCGV Detailed rebuttal http://www.blackouteurope.eu/ […]

Posted in Links | Also tagged Apple, Copyright, digital britain unconference, EU Telecoms Package, iPhone, journalism, privacy, Senate votes, twitter | Comments closed

Digital Britain Unconferences

By take21 | Published: May 7, 2009

Unconferences so far: Oxfordshire, Humberside, London. Cambridge next Note for the Birmingham Unconference Preparation: it would help if people could read the report from the Oxford unconference beforehand. They may want to develop some of those themes or introduce new ones. I can report back on the first meeting. http://digitalbritainunconference.wordpress.com/ Reporting from the London unconference […]

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Digital Britain forum

By take21 | Published: April 17, 2009

The Digital Britain summit Watch live stream http://digitalbritainforum.org.uk/ Numerous links to blogs, including Write To Reply. Live Twitter feed @digitalbritain Gordon Brown, Peter Mandelson, OFCOM, cable companies -all the players.

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tweetness

By take21 | Published: March 23, 2009

Argentine philosophy professor Horacio Potel faces criminal charges and a possible jail sentence for posting translations of Jaques Derrida’s work to his website for his students. Via Boing Boing http://bit.ly/u38aD and http://bit.ly/ZLPTg Morehttp://bit.ly/2OL2D New Zealand scraps Controversial ‘3 Strikes’ Anti-Piracy Law which would have led to alleged copyright infringers being disconnected from the internethttp://tinyurl.com/d86ra6 A major new report published by the Rowntree Trust on the database state via Open […]

Posted in Copyright & IP, Design, Licences, Media, Music & internet radio, Reading & publishing, UK copyright | Also tagged Carter report, Copyright, database state, music royalties, P2P | Comments closed

Proposed Digital Rights Agency. Comment now.

By take21 | Published: March 16, 2009

Lord Carter’s office have issued a proposal for the Digital Rights Agency referred to in the Digital Britain report. The consultation is open until 30th March. WriteToReply have a site for you to comment on the proposal in detail. You can download the proposal and read the press release from the Intellectual Property Office. To comment […]

Posted in Copyright & IP, Music & internet radio, UK copyright | Also tagged Carter report, Copyright, P2P, Rights Agency | Comments closed

Digital Britain: watch and listen

By take21 | Published: March 2, 2009

The Digital Britain report is open to comment until 12th March. On 24th February NESTA hosted a conference on delivering Digital Britain. Many of the key players were present. Video and audio is now available. It is an extraordinary opportunity to see the development of public policy enacted. Watch and listen. NESTA delivering Digital Britain I’ve seen Carter’s […]

Posted in Copyright & IP, Media, Music & internet radio, UK copyright | Also tagged BBC, Lord Carter, Neil Berkett, NESTA, P2P, Peter Bazalgette, Philip Stevens, TV | Comments closed

Fast broadband

By take21 | Published: March 2, 2009

Think broadband on expected OFCOM announcement http://bit.ly/13W49X Up to 100 Megabits fibre optic BT will have to make its new fibre-optic network, which it intends to build over the next three years, available to its rivals on a wholesale basis, but the regulator’s proposals will ensure that it can make money out of it. Observer […]

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