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Allegations 14 Jul 2013 | 04:25 am
Being busy with my self publishing adventure, I’d not been paying much attention to the Internet, so I was surprised when I read Jay Rosen’s tweet about allegations against one of my favorite journali...
No DRM in HTML5 14 Jun 2013 | 12:28 am
This is where you will find the messages about DRM posted to the public W3C Mailing List: W3C Mailing List Discussion Read down for my previous articles discussing this.
Keep DRM out of Web standards — Reject the Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) proposal 11 Jun 2013 | 11:02 pm
My Letter Mr. Clifford’s response,an argument in praise of DRM My rebuttal: Dear Mr. Clifford: Just so you know, a devil’s advocate is one who agues against their own belief in an argument, clearly *n...
The Process 11 Jun 2013 | 10:34 pm
After last week’s article, “Tell the W3C “No DRM” I signed up for an account at W3C and submitted the letter I republished moments ago. I kept checking back, but it wasn’t posted to the list. I assume...
My Open Letter to Sir Tim Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web Consortium 11 Jun 2013 | 10:04 pm
[Suggested by "Tell the W3C “No DRM” this letter was first published on techDITZ then mirrorred on visual laurel. Future articles relating to the topic will be posted here.] Dear Sir Tim Berners-Lee a...
Tell the W3C “No DRM” 8 Jun 2013 | 12:00 am
I remember the days when everything did *not* work together… when a script written on an Apple computer could not be read on an IBM computer. That was a problem due to technical limitations, similar t...
New Minted Parody … or is it Satire? 30 May 2013 | 07:56 am
It doesn’t matter, really, because Canada’s new Copyright Act made both satire and parody exceptions to infringement. Although I continue to have serious reservations about the new law, it seems that ...
Happy Victoria Day 21 May 2013 | 01:43 am
This regal statue of Queen Victoria presides over Victia Park in Kitchener.
The Third of May 3 May 2013 | 10:12 pm
Unesco‘s “World Press Freedom Day 2013” is promoting the idea that people need to be able to use social media for freedom of expression, whether it’s on Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Vkontakte, Tencent,...
Copyright Harm 23 Apr 2013 | 03:05 am
The most common justification given for copyright law is that it helps creators make a living. Yet instead of helping indie musician Edwyn Collins, a corporation with absolutely no claim to Edwyn’s wo...
