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A blog that speaks freely about legal issues facing the media and the internet. It mainly covers issues relating to the legal regulation of the internet and the media, but at times Constitutional law issues and politics are discussed. While the focus is on Australia, developments in other nations around the world are considered as well.

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The Truth According to Wikipedia

Posted on April 09, 2008
TechCrunch reports that Dutch filmmaker IJsbrand van Veelen stirred a lot of controversy last week at the Next Web conference when he premiered his documentary The Truth About Wikipedia. Read more here. The documentary is now available to watch on YouTube:

Viral video South Park style

Posted on April 09, 2008
South Park takes aim at some of the internet's viral video stars: (Hat tip: Mashable.)

Blogging killed the radio star

Posted on April 09, 2008
Every few weeks over the past year or two I find myself giving a radio interview on some internet law related matter. For example, on Sunday it was online privacy and Facebook for Breakfast with George and Paul on 2UE 954 and this afternoon it was about the YouTube bashing...

"Living Without Copyright in a Digital World"

Posted on April 09, 2008
Diane Leenheer Zimmerman has an interesting piece on copyright in the digital age: Diane Leenheer Zimmerman, "Living Without Copyright in a Digital World". Albany Law Review, 2007. NYU Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 07-20 Available at SSRN: http://papers...

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Time surveys the blogosphere

Posted on April 08, 2008
Time.com has put together a list of 25 blogs in Time.com's First Annual Blog Index: From millions of blogs about nothing, we've selected the 25 best about something?from politics and global affairs to shopping and sports. And, yes, we've got a few about nothing, too...

The Vine

Posted on April 08, 2008
Fairfax Digital has launched The Vine, a website apparently designed Generation Y: Generation Y is the focus of an Australian news website launched today. The Vine (www.thevine.com.au), operated by Fairfax Digital, combines news stories targeted towards 18-25 year olds, with user-contributed content...

TV Fugly Awards

Posted on April 08, 2008
Anthony Dever is gearing up for another year of the TV Fugly Awards (think The Razzies for Australian TV). If you have any ideas, let Anthony know here.

Avatar Heroes

Posted on April 08, 2008
Jon Stewart reports on the US Congress Hearings on Second Life:

Copy culture

Posted on April 07, 2008
Home copying is unsurprisingly burnt into the teenage psyche: More than half of young people copy the songs on their hard drives to friends and even more swap CD copies, according to research that reveals the huge challenge home copying poses to a music industry already battling internet file-sharing...

Maher on the internet

Posted on April 07, 2008
Stay tuned until 4:10 in when Bill Maher starts his rant on the internet, culminating with "it enables pompous blowhards to connect with other pompous blowhards in a vast circle jerk of pomposity":

Men are online fools

Posted on April 07, 2008
When the battle of the sexes moves online, Tom LaSusa explains that men are apparently more likely to be duped by internet fraud schemes: They say girls develop much faster than boys. At the very least, they appear to be quicker on the uptake when it comes to avoiding getting...

Courts split on p2p

Posted on April 07, 2008
An interesting split has emerged in the US courts on the legality of file-sharing software: Leaving a copyrighted song where others can get at it with peer-to-peer software doesn't constitute a copyright violation until someone downloads it, a federal judge said in a record industry lawsuit against college students...

Record online libel damages awarded in UK

Posted on April 07, 2008
The Guardian reports on record online libel damages awarded in the UK: A social housing firm and its owner have been awarded the UK's highest internet libel damages at the high court after an anonymous news and discussion site agreed to pay �100,000 compensation following a campaign of defamation and...

How to make viral videos

Posted on April 07, 2008
This parody video will teach you the "secret strategies" behind many viral videos. Check out the original TechCrunch article by Dan Ackerman Greenberg here. (Hat tip: Paul Gulyas.)

Still immune?

Posted on April 07, 2008
Having blogged about Juicy Campus several times over the past few weeks (see here, here, here and here), I thought Daniel J Solove's post at Concurring Opinions asking whether the Roommates.com case would affect the s 230 immunity for Juicy Campus: The U...

"Boring" couple sues

Posted on April 07, 2008
A fun find by The Wall Street Journal Law Blog: The Law Blog had never heard of Google Street Views until we came across this Smoking Gun story about Aaron and Christine Boring. To be honest, we?re a bit unhappy with Google ?Street Views? because we can?t seem to find...

Trademark trouble for Google

Posted on April 07, 2008
Media Post's Just an Online Minute considers a series of trademark lawsuits against Google: When Google decided four years ago to allow trademarked names to trigger paid search ads, the company had to have anticipated that litigation would result. And it has...

It's back ...

Posted on April 07, 2008
I can't think of a better way to resume blogging than with this great teaser for the upcoming season of Big Brother:

Blogging resumes

Posted on April 07, 2008
After a five day blogging hiatus (possibly the longest in this blog's history) blogging will resume this evening ...

Censoring your social networks

Posted on April 01, 2008
The Times Online has a disturbing report on a new form internet censorship being proposed in the UK: Social networking sites will be required to remove material unsuitable for children, such as nude or violent images and comments, within 24 hours of receiving a complaint, under a tough new code...

Regular blogging to return soon

Posted on April 01, 2008
I write this post overlooking the tarmac at JFK International Airport, thinking about the week that has just been, but also the week ahead. I had great time at the Fordham Conference Intellectual Law & Policy in New York last week and have had the opportunity to meet some amazing...

From journalism to blogging

Posted on March 31, 2008
Erick Schonfeld, a former journalist for Time, reflects on the change from moving from Time to TechCrunch: Blink, and six months go by. Ever since I made the move from Time Inc. to TechCrunch, my life has become a whirlwind of nonstop blog posting, little sleep, and a growing addiction...

A reminder: Freedom to Differ and social networks

Posted on March 30, 2008
In addition to (or instead of) following this blog by visiting http://www.freedomtodiffer.com/ or reading it in your RSS reader, you can stay up-to-date with this blog from within your preferred social network (well, as long as your preferred social network is Facebook, MySpace, Bebo or Ning)...

Live blogging the Fordham Intellectual Law & Policy Conference

Posted on March 28, 2008
What follows is my attempt to live blog the second day of the Fordham Annual Conference on Intellectual Property Law & Policy:

Clinton 2.0

Posted on March 27, 2008
The latest video from Hugh Atkin:

Are we sick of life aggregators already?

Posted on March 25, 2008
ReadWriteWeb wonders if we are sick of lifestreaming already: Backlash is probably too harsh a word, but as the buzz around lifestreaming continues to build, some people are starting to question where it fits into their daily lives. Last week, we wondered whether sites like FriendFeed solved the problem of...

Raining McCain

Posted on March 25, 2008
Forget about Obama Girl (see here), here are the McCain girls:

The internet changes news

Posted on March 25, 2008
Time looks at how the internet has changed news: Here is a basic shift that has occurred in the news business: Because of the Internet, you, the reader, no longer have to buy information in pre-fabricated packages like ?newspapers.? You can just go online and individually select the articles you...

Huffington beats Drudge

Posted on March 25, 2008
The Huffington Post has apparently become the most read blog on the internet: Could it be a digital indicator that the Blue states are taking back ground from the Red ones?at least in cyberspace? In February, for the first time ever, Arianna Huffington?s liberal political mega-blog and news site, the...

Nine appeals Ice TV decision

Posted on March 25, 2008
TV Tonight reports on the Nine Network's appeal against the Federal Court's decision in Nine Network Australia Pty Ltd v Ice TV Pty Ltd: The Nine Network is to appeal against a copyright ruling last year against ICE-TV. ICE-TV allows viewers to subscribe to an electronic programme guide and record...

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