Tag Archives: Carter report

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 […]

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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 […]

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Write to reply update

By take21 | Published: February 26, 2009

Something wonderful is happening around the Write to reply site. In addition to the WordPress plugin which allows people to comment on the Carter report Digital Britain, there is a a bunch of developer activity: Netvibes, different visualisations of the comment cloud, experiments with iPhone and ebook readers …  a whole ecosystem of democratic engagement […]

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Media revolution: Tomorrow’s TV

By take21 | Published: February 22, 2009

BBC’s Money programme available on iPlayer If you wonder why much broadcast TV seems formulaic, this programme explains why: it’s supposed to be, because the TV formula is an essential part of the business. A TV formula is valuable intellectual property, Who wants to be a millionaire? is a global brand. This programme explains the […]

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Get Carter

By take21 | Published: February 13, 2009

Out-law.com reports: ‘The Government’s Digital Britain plan is a failure that gives favourable treatment to the music business and props up failed business models, a software trade body has said. ‘The Federation Against Software Theft and Investors in Software (FAST IiS), which promotes the legitimate use of software, has launched a stinging attack on the […]

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Comment on Digital Britain report

By take21 | Published: February 5, 2009

Jack Schofield has a Guardian piece  linking to a WordPress site which allows you to comment on the text of the Carter report. How excellent. We will. Writetoreply.org

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Carter report on Guardian tech weekly

By take21 | Published: February 5, 2009

Discussion on Carter report Digital Britain on Guardian Tech Weekly podcast. Government intervention. How to pay for universal broadband? “Think like the Victorians” (Vic Keegan). 2MB is an aspiration, compared with 20 and 50MB in other countries. ‘Universal service obligation’ does not include a commitment to achieve even this speed for all. New media startups […]

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