Tag Archives: P2P

Media law in March

Libel laws used to gag again: UK Anti-Piracy Lawyers Threaten File-Sharing ForumTorrentfreak 50,000 lawsuits vs individuals for downloading movies. Mass litigation as a business modelHollywood Reporter Index on Censorship: Libel costs reform stalled by Labour MPs’ revolt Tom Watson MP explains his vote on libel reform Liberal Conspiracy 31March

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Digital Economy Bill and Digital Britain in March

Digital economy bill likely to be pushed through before electionGuardian 05.03.2010 Copyright is not the only thing that matters online, says Bill ThompsonBBC 02.03.2010 Music Week: Clause 17 voted down in LordsThe industry is celebrating that non P2P infringers are being dealt with in the Digital Economy Bill, after the House of Lords voted through […]

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October #4

DefamationBirmingham Post Birmingham law firm to pursue online defamation Digital BritainDissecting ‘The Economic Case for Digital Inclusion’ Ian CuddyAn extended look at Lord Mandelson’s IP announcement at C&binet Paid Content Freedom of InformationAll FOI requests to this site now categorised Whatdotheyknow Google docsNow Exportable in Office and Open Office formats RWW LobbyingCivil servants fight off […]

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October #3

Digital BritainOfcom launches Consortium for Digital Participation70% oppose internet ban for filesharers, poll shows. GuardianIllegal downloads 150x more profitable than legal sales Torrent FreakMore than 10 million adults in the UK have never used the Internet. 4 million of them are the most socially disadvantaged. Race Online 2012 EducationTeach us a Lesson! competition for informal […]

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September #6

DesignTED video: Tim Brown (IDEO) urges designers to think big. From consumption to participation. Be inspired. Digital BritainISP responds: TalkTalk legal challenge if told to disconnect internet ‘pirates’. Times GuardianUK technology industry organisation responds to BIS Consultation on Legislation re illicit P2P file-sharing IntellectGovernment 2.0Calling open data developers: we need your help says Cabinet Office […]

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August #4

Digital BritainWatch interview Martha Lane Fox with Robert Peston http://bit.ly/10XE5LAppetite fades for ‘top-slicing’ BBC funding http://bit.ly/19GwGdPeter Mandelson: ‘nothing has been predetermined’ http://bit.ly/LQCU4John Naughton on Lord Mandelson’s intervention: http://bit.ly/RfXHu Edinburgh Television FestivalFull version of James Murdoch’s James MacTaggart speech is here on Guardian: http://bit.ly/QfSkIRobert Peston lecture What future for media & journalism? full text http://bit.ly/RfmNKJournalismInterested AstroTurf […]

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August #3

EducationHow long does it take to create one hour of eLearning? http://bit.ly/EeLbNScholarly publishing with WordPress http://bit.ly/kW34Q CensorshipNew Scientist: worldwide government initiatives to block, filter and control the internet http://bit.ly/1WesNZ Google Book SettlementBBC on Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo signing up to Open Book Alliance re Google Book Settlement http://bit.ly/tuSSkPeter Brantley and the Open Book Alliance – […]

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August #2

Downloading Annual University of Hertfordshire survey on music consumption. Two views: Trade body UK Music, who fund the survey “Music consumption in 14-24 year olds is complex, latest survey reveals” UK Music Torrentfreak “14-24 year olds pirate 8,000 music tracks each” Torrentfreak   Digital Britain Programme for the delivery of actions in the DB White […]

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August #1

Creative Commons Creative Commons Launches CC OpenID Profile bit.ly “Rights Expression vs. Rights Enforcement: clarifying the Associated Press story” creativecommons.org   Sematic web Open Knowledge Foundation: Open Data and the Semantic Web Workshop, London, 13th November 2009: ur1.ca  JISC project report on Semantic technologies in learning & teaching : bit.ly   Digital Britain Consultation on […]

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Links to 13th June

    The week in links Education resources, open access, copyright, bad research and lobbying, life without newspapers- insight from the1940s, Twitter hype vs the numbers, browser innovation, Digital Britain, life without broadband, French anti-filesharing law overturne The week in links Education resources, open access, copyright, bad research and lobbying, life without newspapers- insight from […]

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