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The Federal Labor Relations Board has settled a lawsuit brought against a Connecticut ambulance company that disciplined an employee for criticizing a boss on Facebook. The ambulance company had policies in place that included employees not being allowed to talk to others or coworkers about work, coworkers, and working conditions. This was a pretty blatant suppression of freedom of speech
The Library of Congress, in a regular review of digital copyright laws, made a few adjustments last week. They declared that jailbreaking a device is perfectly legal, that breaking code on games is okay for certain purposes (to fix bugs, for example), and that blind users have the right to break DRM in order to make electronic text available. This
An article surfaced today in an Australian newspaper regarding Australian customs officials being asked by the U.S. State Department to participate in checking traveler's iPods and laptops for pirated music. My question is, how would they know if it was pirated or not? Supposedly they were looking for "large quantities of commercial music." Er. What does large mean? I've got
From the EFF Today is the last day to submit proposals (by 5p EST) to the Copyright Office seeking a 3-year DMCA exemption for noninfringing activities that are otherwise squelched by "digital rights management" (DRM) restrictions [EFF]
Missed recording some shows on your DVR don't worry head over to Rent my DVR. People are asking some of the obvious copyright questions but apparently the site has been up for a while and people are able to put request in. [www.rentmydvr.com] [Commentary on the Website]
Not sure what to think of this. When you click on this link you leave my site go to Podscope, and then my podcast page loads in a frame on their domain and they have something funky on the bottom of the page. Could not find this link from the main page, but needless to say I am puzzled by
I found some information tonight that made my mouth fall open in disbelief. I have been hammering away at you folks for a while on Fair Use and talking about the evils of the DMCA. Little did I realize the extent to which companies are pushing agendas forward to take us back to the stone ages. Thanks to Doc Searls