Archive for November 8th, 2005
Good Fences Make Good News?
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall. While most of us are all for openness, the public editor of the New York Times points out that there are “Cracks in the Wall Between Advertising and News” – partly because of shrinking advertising revenues for news operations and partly because the consolidation of the industry [...]
Posted: 8 November, 2005 in Information Ethics, Technology Issues.
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Lessig’s Uncompromising Position
Lawrence Lessig makes some interesting points in his Wired piece on the Google suits. A 1909 law that gave copyright holders (and the publishers with whom they make agreements) “the exclusive right to control copies of their works” didn’t anticipate that the only way to index digital material (or, in fact, to read it) is [...]
Posted: 8 November, 2005 in Information Ethics, Technology Issues.
Comments: 2