from the so-it-went dept
5 Years In the past
This week in 2020, Don Henley was utilizing TikTok as a cause to push for stronger copyright legal guidelines, whereas some Senators have been asking the FCC to reinterpret Part 230 in a ridiculous method, and Ron Wyden was explaining how Trump and plenty of others have been completely incorrect about 230. In the meantime, we continued to comply with developments from the George Floyd protests, together with Chicago’s mayor making an attempt to rein within the metropolis’s police, the DEA making an attempt to get in on surveilling the protests, and the function of police unions in making the whole lot worse. We additionally wrote about what all this teaches us in regards to the efficacy of peaceable protest.
Ten Years In the past
This week in 2015, newly launched emails confirmed how business lobbyists mainly wrote the TPP. The Copyright Workplace was making a hamfisted try to deal with the issue of orphan works, and we famous how its concepts wouldn’t even be allowed if the TPP have been ratified. Mitch McConnel was making an attempt and failing to graft a bogus cybersecurity invoice onto the NDAA, whereas an modification to stop backdoor searches and the backdooring of encryption was embraced by the Home (which additionally blocked the White Home from getting quick monitor authority on commerce offers).
Fifteen Years In the past
This week in 2010, we appeared on the query of whether or not copyright was holding again scientific analysis. We wrote about Hollywood’s hypocrisy on copyright infringement amidst the recognition of Glee, the moral and authorized issues of getting sufferers signal over the copyright on their critiques of docs, and a few information on the rise and fall of the RIAA. Numerous targets of lawsuits from US Copyright Group have been proclaiming their innocence, whereas one copyright lawyer was smacked down by a court docket for a nasty religion lawsuit. Amidst all this we requested: is mental property itself unethical?
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