Eve Salomon, Press Complaints CommissionWe need to know how to motivate users to take privacy on board - gives example of 17 yr old son and Facebook.Can a photograph not showing private behaviour be classed as private outside copyright issues? Even if material is private there can be good reasons to breach privacy, e.g. YouTube video of kids firebombing cargo train.New questions of informed consent. 3rd party disclosure. Standards and fairness. Should viral' material be published? Can be good reasons for publication.Responsibility shared between public, parents, sites. Make it easier for... Go to original article ...
The appeals of last year's Copyright Royalty Board decision on the royalties paid for the use of sound recordings by Internet radio stationscontinue on, and one recent filing raises interesting questions ofwhether or not the CRB was properly appointe Go to article ...
Media Wonk normally tries not to get in the middle of pissing matchesbetween other bloggers. But having disgorged at length on the economicsof online music in my last postI'm going to risk sticking my nose ever so gingerly into the lengthyexchange on Go to article ...
(Source: youtomb.mit.edu)For a decent sense of which organizations are still hellbent on hand-swatting every mosquito in the copyright-violation forest, the new site YouTomb provides a valuable service. It's a video-sharing joint, but only for videos Go to article ...