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Secret Copyright Treaty Leaks – Goes Viral

Nov 4th, 2009 | By Rex Gradeless | Category: Copyright, Featured, Lead Article, Privacy, Social Media, Web 2.0

According to BoingBoing.net, the internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama’s administration refused to disclose due to “national security” concerns, has leaked. It’s bad. It says: That ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be impossible to run a service like [...]



Social Media Obscures Line Between “on the record” and “off the record”

Sep 18th, 2009 | By Huma Rashid | Category: Facebook, Featured, Lead Article, Social Media, Twitter, Web 2.0, YouTube

Only this time, it’s a clash between the political and the cultural. Pop-cultural, to be exact. Twitter, as everyone who reads this law-and-social-media blog already knows, is a micro-blogging service which allows users to submit ‘tweets,’ or messages no longer than 140 characters in length. Everyone’s on Twitter these days – Shaquille O’Neal, President Barack [...]