Category Archives: Copyright
Controversial Changes to Public Domain Works
This post takes a step back from that and, instead of looking at how new technologies butt heads against free speech, I briefly think through the significance of transforming ‘classic’ works of the English literary canon. Specifically, I want to argue that New South’s decision to publish Huckleberry Finn without the word “nigger” – replacing it with “slave” – demonstrates the importance of works entering the public domain. Continue reading
Review of Telecommunications Policy in Transition
It might be hard to justify the cost of a decade-old communications policy text, but this collection has aged quite well. If network neutrality, peering, copyright, or comparative deployment policies are in your line of interest then this is a wonderful book to add to your collection! Continue reading
Review of Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture
Gillespie’s work can be seen as a nuanced examination of how encryption technologies embedded in digital rights management systems curtail speech, action, and moral autonomy in contemporary democracies. Such limitations are only possible because of the adoption of digital technologies and the integration of surveillant sub-systems to limit the uses of content, often to the detriment of individuals. Continue reading
Ole, Intellectual Property, and Taxing Canadian ISPs
se companies. At best we might feel pity as we watch them wallow in their crisis. At worst, we fear what they might crush as they roll around on the ground like starving dinosaurs and demolish other elements of civil society in their throes of panic and fear aimed at extinguishing the generativity that endangers their ontological security. They’ve already made a real mess of copyright and cultural transmission possibilities; let’s hope they don’t damage the conditions of democratic communication itself as well. Continue reading
