November 18th, 2008 by Joshua Kagan
A new U.S. president prepares to take office… will his “change” include a new technology policy? French record labels gear up for a fight against open source media sharing software. A European fashion designer tries to enforce a copyright judgment in New York. The judge who shut down Napster proposes a sweeping copyright reform. Craigslist [...]
October 19th, 2008 by Joshua Kagan
Will DRM be the final nail in the coffin of PC gaming? How anonymous can the Internet be? Why won’t YouTube grant a full legal review of all DMCA takedown requests on election campaign videos? Will trademark owners be forced to monitor domain name registrations? Can libraries go digital? Can a record label infringe its [...]
September 20th, 2008 by Joshua Kagan
Earlier this week Professor Michael Scott of Southwestern Law School called for a “coherent federal technology policy.” He pointed to the decline in government R&D spending and argued that the next president should “turn things around.”
He’s right. But I want to go one step further and specifically outline what a good federal technology policy should include. [...]