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Webstock '12: danah boyd - Culture of Fear + Attention Economy = ?!?! on Vimeo
"We live in a culture of fear. Fear feeds on attention and attention is captured by fear. Social media has complicated our relationship with attention and the rise of the attention economy highlights the challenges of dealing with this scarce resource. But what does this mean for the culture of fear? How are the technologies that we design to bring the world together being used to create new divisions? In this talk, danah will explore what happens at the intersection of the culture of fear and the attention economy."

[See also: http://www.danah.org/papers/talks/2012/SXSW2012.html ]
networkculture  control  arabspring  politics  policy  power  jaronlanier  stewartbrand  johnperrybarlow  legal  law  internetbubbles  regulation  webstock  webstock12  data  safety  onlinesafety  children  facebook  society  socialnorms  networks  fearmongering  visibility  behavior  sharing  transparency  cyberbullying  bullying  information  advertising  infooverload  panic  moralpanics  unknown  perceptionofrisk  perception  neurosis  internet  online  parenting  riskassessment  risk  cultureoffear  2012  attentioneconomy  attention  technology  responsibility  culture  fear  socialmedia  danahboyd  from delicious
9 weeks ago by robertogreco
Playmakers on Vimeo
"playmakers, a 35 minute documentary, is the culmination of a six month project following the progress of Hide&Seek; game designers Alex Fleetwood and Holly Gramazio through the development of a new game. The documentary was filmed over the first 6 months of 2009 and premiered at the Sheffield Documentary festival. Playmakers will be available to download and view on the 5th of May 2010.

Over the last 50 years play has become an increasingly private activity. Now it is bursting back onto our streets. playmakers explores the emerging area of pervasive games it examines the implications of reclaiming play into the public domain and shows the possibilities offered by new technologies.

Playmakers investigates four main themes:

Part 1: Play…

Part 2: Public space…

Part 3: Technology…

Part 4: Theatre/art…"

[See also: http://playmakers.org.uk/ ]
blasttheory  simonevans  quentinstevens  paulinabozek  duncanspeakman  mattadams  simonjohnson  clarereddington  jackcase  thomasbrock  hollygramazio  alexfleetwood  hide&seek  art  theater  urbanplay  urbangames  parkour  social  urbanism  urban  legal  law  publicspace  fun  ubiquitousconnectivity  ubicomp  geolocation  geocaching  socialgames  gaming  via:chrisberthelsen  playmakers  play  games  rules  arg  pervasivegames  pervasive  2010  howardrheingold  michaelwesch  hide&seek;  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
Mass Incarceration and Criminal Justice in America : The New Yorker
In a society where Constitution worship is still a requisite…Stuntz startlingly suggests…Bill of Rights is a terrible document w/ which to start justice system—much inferior to…French Declaration of the Rights of Man, which Jefferson…may have helped shape while…Madison was writing ours.

…trouble w/…Bill of Rights…is that it emphasizes process & procedure rather than principles…Declaration of Rights of Man says, Be just!…Bill of Rights says, Be fair! Instead of announcing general principles—no one should be accused of something that wasn’t a crime when he did it; cruel punishments are always wrong; the goal of justice is, above all, that justice be done—it talks procedurally. You can’t search someone without a reason…can’t accuse him w/out allowing him to see evidence…& so on… has led to the current mess, where accused criminals get laboriously articulated protection against procedural errors & no protection at all against outrageous & obvious violations of simple justice."
constitution  justice  process  procedure  policy  2012  criminaljusticesystem  us  jails  race  reform  legal  prisons  law  politics  crime  prison  williamjstuntz  adamgopnik 
february 2012 by robertogreco
An Encylopedia of Land Use Codes - Neighborhoods - The Atlantic Cities
"The site features recent codes, like a 2000 plan for the city of Winter Springs, Florida, slightly older codes, like a 1667 code for rebuilding London after the Great Fire, and even ancient codes like Code of Hammurabi. The slideshow below features a few of the codes available through the Codes Project.

As dry as it may sound, land use zoning can be a controversial topic. Some people argue that codes like these put too much regulation on the urban environment and limit the will of the market. Others worry that hard rules in these codes limit the legality of the increasingly desired concept of mixed use development. Talen says the Codes Project tries to address the controversy, but also to focus on codes that have a positive impact."
history  emilytalen  thecodesproject  legal  law  urbanplanning  planning  towns  cities  references  2011  nateberg  urbanism  urban  landusecodes  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
Civil rights in Chile: Maid refuses to get on bus - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee
"In today's Chile, however, human rights activists are challenging low pay, long hours and discrimination that afflict domestic workers. And so Pinto's decision to skip the bus has lit debate on social networks and has filled newspaper pages and radio and TV broadcasts with commentary. Thousands signed on to an Internet campaign against the subdivision's protocols, and about 20 people demonstrated in front of the gates on Saturday, some dressed as zombies in maid uniforms…

Marta Lagos, who directs the international Latinobarometro survey, said "Chile is an extremely tolerant country in terms of diversity. But having solidarity with your equals is one thing, and another is tolerance toward people who are different. This country is segmented, segregated: there are workers, the poor, and the rich, and each one of these segments is seen as bad by the other."

[Broken link, now here: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501715_162-57363358/civil-rights-in-chile-maid-refuses-to-get-on-bus/ ]
2012  discrimination  humanrights  law  legal  protest  economics  class  chile  from delicious
january 2012 by robertogreco
The next SOPA – Marco.org
"MPAA studios hate us…w/ region locks…unskippable screens…encryption…criminalization of fair use…see us as stupid eyeballs w/ wallets, & they are entitled to constant stream of our money. They despise us…certainly don’t respect us.

Yet when we watch their movies, we support them.

Even if we don’t watch their movies in a theater or buy their plastic discs of hostility, we’re still supporting them…on Netflix or other flat-rate streaming or rental services, the service effectively pays them on our behalf next time they negotiate rights or buy another disc…if we pirate their movies, we’re contributing to statistics that help them convince Congress these destructive laws are necessary.

They use our support to buy these laws.

…instead of waiting for MPAA’s next law & changing our Twitter avatars for a few days in protest, it would be more productive to significantly reduce or eliminate our support of the MPAA member companies starting today, and start supporting campaign finance reform."
legal  law  us  lobbying  copyright  corruption  campaignfinance  politics  miaa  pipa  sopa  2012  marcoarment 
january 2012 by robertogreco
Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts
"Legal Services: VLA delivers legal services and legal information to over 10,000 members of the arts community each year. For more information please click here or call The Art Law Line : 212·319·ARTS (2787), ext.1

Education: VLA plays an important role in educating individual artists, arts professionals within arts and cultural institutions, attorneys, students and the general public about legal and business issues that affect artistic and creative endeavors. For more information on our classes, workshops, and panels, please click here, or call our Art Law Line at at 212.319. (ARTS) 2787 x1.

Advocacy: From its inception, VLA has played an important role as an advocate on behalf of the arts community in different ways, ranging from participation in litigation, making public statements about matters of interest to the arts community, and making recommendations about pending legislation."
art  business  law  design  glvo  legal  writing  music  freelancing  freelancers  from delicious
september 2011 by robertogreco
Subtel enforces net neutrality
"Chile’s regulator, Sub-Secretaria de Telecomunicaciones (Subtel) has had a set of amendments to the General Telecommunications Law passed by Congress. The amendment states that internet service providers (ISPs) must not interfere with access to content, applications or services except for protective purposes, such as virus protection. The law prevents ISPs from abusing their control over last mile infrastructure by blocking access to certain content. It also stipulates that ISPs must provide parental controls and be more transparent regarding contracts, and make clear the average and maximum speeds available.<br />
According to TeleGeography’s GlobalComms Database, at the end of March 2011 Chile had 1.9 million broadband subscribers, and its household penetration of 39.8% is high for the region."
2011  chile  netneutrality  law  legal  internet  access  broadband  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
The difference between Google and Aaron Swartz | MediaFile
"Aaron’s arrest should be a wake up call to universities–evidence of how fundamentally broken this core piece of their architecture remains despite d ecades of progress in advancing communication and collaboration.

The MIT staff who called the FBI would have been served better by calling the chancellor to ask, “How have we created a system that forces 25 year-olds to sneak around in the basement, hiding hard-drives in closets in order ask basic and important questions about our work? Can’t we do better?”"
academia  publishing  openaccess  aaronswartz  datascraping  law  legal  mit  jstor  technology  2011  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Malpractice reform lessons from abroad - PNHP's Official Blog
"US requires patients injured by medical negligence to seek compensation through lawsuits, an approach that has drawbacks related to fairness, cost, & impact on medical care. Several countries, including New Zealand, Sweden, & Denmark, have replaced litigation w/ administrative compensation systems for patients who experience an avoidable medical injury. Sometimes called “no-fault” systems, such schemes enable patients to file claims for compensation w/out using an attorney. A governmental or private adjudicating organization uses neutral medical experts to evaluate claims of injury & does not require patients to prove that health care providers were negligent in order to receive compensation. Info from claims is used to analyze opportunities for patient safety improvement. The systems have successfully limited liability costs while improving injured patients’ access to compensation. US policymakers may find many of the elements of these countries’ systems to be transferable…"
health  healthcare  malpractice  law  legal  money  medicine  us  newzealand  nofault  sweden  denmark  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
The fruits of immigration — Marginal Revolution
"In short, we have turned good workers into criminals and turned criminals into bad workers, losing on both ends of the deal. Incredible."
via:lukeneff  immigration  labor  law  legal  2011  economics  marginalrevolution  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Legal Services Wanted; Lawyers Need Not Apply - Miller-McCune
"Why a globalized U.S. economy requires new legal infrastructure devised and controlled by innovators (who will probably be something or someone other than law firms or lawyers)."
law  legal  lawyers  2011  globalization  patents  business  future  simplicity  economics  price  money  efficiency  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Jury Independence Illustrated, written and illustrated by Ricardo Cortés [.pdf]
“The fact that there is widespread existence of the jury’s prerogative, and approval of its existence as a ‘necessary counter to case-hardened judges and arbitrary prosecutors,’ does not establish as an imperative that the jury must be informed by the judge of that power.”<br />
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–UNITED STATES v. DOUGHERTY (1972) U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT. 473 F.2d 1113 (1972)<br />
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"Ricardo Cortés is an author & illustrator of books, including Go the Fuck to S leep, I Don’t Want to Blow You Up!, It’s Just a Plant, and the forthcoming Coffee, Coca & Cola."<br />
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[via: http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/06/jury-nullification ]
juryduty  juries  law  legal  civics  citizenship  us  courts  nullification  rights  2011  classideas  patriotism  ethics  howto  unjustlaws  checksandbalances  judges  injustice  activism  power  politics  filetype:pdf  media:document  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
Jury nullification: Just say no | The Economist [Don't miss: http://www.rmcortes.com/books/jury/Jury-Illustrated.pdf ]
"Juries do not only decide guilt or innocence; they can also serve as checks on unjust laws. Judges will not tell you about your right to nullify—to vote not guilty regardless of whether the prosecution has proven its case if you believe the law at issue is unjust. They may tell you that you may only judge the facts of the case put to you & not the law. They may strike you from a jury if do not agree under oath to do so, but the right to nullify exists. There is reason to be concerned about this power: nobody wants courtroom anarchy. But there is also reason to wield it, especially today: if you believe that nonviolent drug offenders should not go to prison, vote not guilty. The creators of…"The Wire" vowed to do that a few years back ("we will...no longer tinker w/ machinery of the drug war," [they] wrote)…"<br />
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[See also: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1719872,00.html AND http://fija.org/ ]<br />
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[via: http://twitter.com/charlesdavis84/status/85402352378589184 ]
thewire  juryduty  citizenship  us  courts  law  legal  nullification  rights  2011  warondrugs  davidsimon  edburns  dennislehane  georgepelecanos  richardprice  drugs  drugoffenses  civics  classideas  patriotism  ethics  howto  juries  unjustlaws  checksandbalances  judges  injustice  activism  power  politics  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
Tim DeChristopher: This Hero Didn’t Stand a Chance | Common Dreams ["We are definitely going to be navigating the most intense period of change humanity has ever seen."]
"His prosecution is evidence that our moral order has been turned upside down. The bankers & swindlers who trashed the global economy & wiped out some $40 trillion in wealth amass obscene amounts of money, much of it provided by taxpayers. They do not go to jail. Regulatory agencies, compliant to the demands of corporations, refuse to impede the destruction unleashed by the coal, oil & natural gas companies as they turn the planet into a hothouse of pollutants, poisoned water, fouled air and contaminated soil in the frenzied quest for greater and greater profits. Those who manage and make fortunes from pre-emptive wars, embrace torture, carry out extrajudicial assassinations, deny habeas corpus and run up the largest deficits in human history are feted as patriots. But when a courageous citizen such as DeChristopher peacefully derails the corporate and governmental destruction of the ecosystem, he is sent to jail."

[via: http://twitter.com/joguldi/status/83042584490029056 ]
capitalism  ecology  environment  law  legal  politics  policy  us  banking  finance  timdechristopher  convictions  2011  anarchism  nonviolence  protest  activism  injustice  change  classideas 
june 2011 by robertogreco
The Brain on Trial - Magazine - The Atlantic
"Advances in brain science are calling into question the volition behind many criminal acts. A leading neuroscientist describes how the foundations of our criminal-justice system are beginning to crumble, and proposes a new way forward for law and order."<br />
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"Neuroscience is beginning to touch on questions that were once only in the domain of philosophers and psychologists, questions about how people make decisions and the degree to which those decisions are truly “free.” These are not idle questions. Ultimately, they will shape the future of legal theory and create a more biologically informed jurisprudence. "
science  psychology  philosophy  behavior  biology  crime  punishment  nature  nurture  naturenurture  davideagleman  2011  mentalillness  mentalhealth  brain  impulsivity  impulse-control  adolescence  incarceration  adolescents  law  legal  future  forwardthinking  thinking  somnambulism  social  socialpolicy  rehabilitation  neuroscience  criminality  recidivism  predictions  data  brainchemistry  pathology  pathologies  tourettes  alzheimers  schizophrenia  mania  depression  murder  blame  blameworthiness  capitalpunishment  logic  freewill  will  jurisprudence  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
Agenda | Hyper-Public: A Symposium on Designing Privacy and Public Space in the Connected World
"This symposium will bring together computer scientists, ethnographers, architects, historians, artists and legal scholars to discuss how design influences privacy and public space, how it shapes and is shaped by human behavior and experience, and how it can cultivate norms such as tolerance and diversity."
hyper-public  jonathanzittrain  danahboyd  ethanzuckerman  genevievebell  pauldourish  adamgreenfield  nicholasnegroponte  davidweinberger  events  law  legal  privacy  ethnography  history  art  architecture  publicspace  behavior  experience  2011  tolerance  diversity  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
SpeEdChange: The Age of Reason
"at 11, is considered…to be adult because he is alleged to have acted badly…how good must  [he] be to be considered an adult?…

…imagine now that you are btwn age 10 & 25. If you are you're in a bizarre never-never land where your age will always be used against you, but rarely get you anything…

Let's start by correcting juvenile justice laws…while we're doing that, let's make sure that we are moving kids toward freedom, that Middle School looks more open, more chaotic, than elementary school. That High School looks, & is, more open still. That, like adults, kids aren't badgered for being 5 minutes late, or for forgetting something. That, like adults, kids have the freedom to sit, stand, or walk around - freedom to use the toilet, freedom to eat & drink in most places. That, like adults, kids have the freedom to control their own learning.

If we are training our kids to be adults, lets first not make them adults for wrong reasons…then, lets show them what it actually means."
youth  teens  adolescence  adulthood  adults  criminalization  juveniles  juvenilejustice  justice  education  middleschool  highschool  law  legal  irasocol  democracy  democratic  learning  behavior  control  agediscrimination  inconsistency  2011  murder  reason  change  reform  lcproject  tcsnmy  classideas  unschooling  deschooling  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
Corporate Control? Not in These Communities by Allen D. Kanner
"Mt. Shasta is not alone. Rather, it is part of a (so far) quiet municipal movement making its way across the United States in which communities are directly defying corporate rule and affirming the sovereignty of local government.<br />
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Since 1998, more than 125 municipalities have passed ordinances that explicitly put their citizens' rights ahead of corporate interests, despite the existence of state and federal laws to the contrary. These communities have banned corporations from dumping toxic sludge, building factory farms, mining, and extracting water for bottling. Many have explicitly refused to recognize corporate personhood. Over a dozen townships in Pennsylvania, Maine, and New Hampshire have recognized the right of nature to exist and flourish (as Ecuador just did in its new national constitution)."
cities  municipalities  environment  sustainability  health  corporatism  corporations  law  legal  citizenrights  corporateinterests  change  socialresponsibility  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
StickWithANose » Student Loan Scam
Graphic describing the problem and its history, with suggestions about how not to fall into the trap at the end
studentloans  money  finance  government  policy  education  salliemae  debt  debtslavery  history  law  legal  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Often, You Can Film Cops; Just Don't Record Them : NPR
"If the government can record citizens, why can't citizens record the government? That's the question posed by a Chicago artist who faces prison for recording the sound of his own arrest.<br />
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It's generally legal to videotape an on-duty police officer in public, but in some states, recording audio of what an officer says can be a serious crime.<br />
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This Chicago case, in which an artist is charged with violating the state's eavesdropping law, actually began as civil disobedience."
law  privacy  legal  police  doublestandards  surveillance  sousveillance  crime  civics  tcsnmy  classideas  publicspace  wiretaps  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
System justification - Wikipedia
"System justification theory (SJT) is a scientific theory within social psychology that proposes people have a motivation to defend and bolster the status quo, that is, to see it as good, legitimate, and desirable."

[via: http://twitter.com/hrheingold/status/17735896738 ]
statusquo  behavior  bias  law  legal  politics  psychology  social  sociology  stagnation  tcsnmy  learning  parenting  experience  systemjustification  justification  iexperiencethisallthetime  motivation  legitimization  society  unschooling  deschooling  lcproject  schooliness 
july 2010 by robertogreco
patfarenga.com - Sweden Bans Homeschooling: What would Pippi Longstocking say?
"The fierce independence and unconventional philosophical views of Pippi Longstocking, one of Sweden's most famous fictional characters and an autodidact, certainly seem diminished in light of this law. Indeed, a modern-day Pippi would have to flee to a country with more educational and personal freedom than Sweden in order to have her adventures now. Perhaps we should encourage all homeschoolers to boycott travel and goods from Sweden until they allow families the educational freedom to raise and teach their children in accordance with their religious and philosophical views?"
sweden  law  patfarenga  pippilongstocking  education  policy  legal  homeschool  schools  learning  autodidacts 
july 2010 by robertogreco
Cole§law: Visualizing the US Legal Code - Sunlight Labs: Blog
"The US code is awfully complex. Among the 50 titles of the US Code, there are 168,000 references – including those within and between sections. Now on to the eye candy."
law  openness  visualization  us  tcsnmy  classideas  government  complexity  legalcode  legal 
july 2010 by robertogreco
apophenia » Facebook and “radical transparency” (a rant)
"Zuckerberg & gang may think they know what’s best for society, for individuals, but I violently disagree...they know what’s best for privileged class. & I’m terrified of consequences these moves are having for those who don’t live in lap of luxury. I say this as someone who is privileged...has profited at every turn by being visible. But also someone who has seen costs & pushed through consequences w/ lots of help & support. Being publicly visible isn’t always easy [or] fun. & I don’t think that anyone should go through what I’ve gone through w/out making choice to do it. So I’m [very] angry that some people aren’t being given that choice, don’t know what’s going on, that it’s become OK in my industry to expose people...it’s high time that we take into consideration those whose lives aren’t nearly as privileged as ours, those who aren’t choosing to take the risks we take, those who can’t afford to. This isn’t about liberals vs. libertarians; it’s about monkeys vs. robots."
2010  danahboyd  socialmedia  facebook  marketing  socialnetworking  surveillance  legal  transparency  security  sharing  activism  privacy  sxsw  ethics  internet  markzuckerberg  visibility 
may 2010 by robertogreco
What If The Very Theory That Underlies Why We Need Patents Is Wrong? | Techdirt
"paper concludes w/ some policy recommendations, seeking to have the government look for ways to encourage more collaborative & open innovation, such as by supporting more open licensing programs directly, though I'm not sure what specific support the government really needs to do there. It also suggests that net neutrality actually plays into this as well -- as one of the reasons why there is greater collaboration is that a neutral network infrastructure made that possible. Removing network neutrality could limit the ability to collaborate, & because of that, the social benefit found from such collaborative projects. Again, I'm not convinced that any ISP would go so far as to restrict communication to that level, but it is an interesting note.
entrepreneurship  legal  law  politics  technology  patents  economics  collaboration  business  innovation  ip 
april 2010 by robertogreco
voiceofsandiego.org | Developer of Cell Phone Tool for Migrants Under Investigation by UCSD
"The investigations, Dominguez said, have slowed progress on the Transborder Immigrant Tool and raised questions within his department over the freedom of researchers at UCSD to conduct the work they were hired to do.
ucsd  sandiego  borders  us  mexico  disobedience  civildisobedience  legal  law 
april 2010 by robertogreco
TED Blog: Alan Siegel's credit card agreement redesign
"In his 2010 TEDTalk, Alan Siegel called for a simple, sensible redesign of legal paperwork -- to make it intelligible to the rest of us. Here's one of the redesigned documents he showed: a sample credit card agreement which is easy to understand and, dare we say, pretty?"
simplicity  creditcards  agreements  legal  thewayitshouldbedone  financial  alansiegal 
march 2010 by robertogreco
Finland makes broadband access a legal right | Technology | guardian.co.uk
"The Finnish government has become the first in the world to make broadband internet access a legal right.
finland  technology  internet  politics  policy  government  access  broadband  law  legal  rights  digitaldivide 
october 2009 by robertogreco
Teaching Copyright
"EFF's Teaching Copyright curriculum was created to help teachers present the laws surrounding digital rights in a balanced way.
eff  education  learning  creativecommons  teaching  curriculum  legal  ict  fairuse  medialiteracy  copyright  lessonplans 
may 2009 by robertogreco
Education - Change.org: How Save Home-Schooled Children from the Worst Homes?
Several interesting comments including: "I, too, have met that one whacko family that even other homeschoolers agree should not be homeschooling, but I am not willing to give up my rights and those of the hundreds of other normal homeschoolers I know so that crazy family's kids are forced into school -- and continue to suffer from having crappy parents anyway." AND the comment from Dawn West.
education  homeschool  unschooling  deschooling  parenting  activism  clayburell  learning  law  legal  regulation 
april 2009 by robertogreco
Wooster Collective: Why We Don't Post Open Calls For Submissions To Design Competitions
"nine times out of ten, the terms and conditions (i.e. "the fine print") is so onerous and unfair to every single person who enters, that we would never, in good conscious, suggest that people participate.
woostercollective  rights  copyright  law  legal  competitions  art  artists 
april 2009 by robertogreco
Newswise Business News | Economists Say Copyright and Patent Laws Are Killing Innovation; Hurting Economy
"Patent and copyright law are stifling innovation and threatening the global economy according to two economists at Washington University in St. Louis in a new book, Against Intellectual Monopoly. Professors Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine call for abolishing the current patent and copyright system in order to unleash innovations necessary to reverse the current recession and rescue the economy. The professors discuss their stand against intellectual property protections in a video and news release linked here."
economics  innovation  patents  copyright  intellectualproperty  ip  law  politics  legal  drm  research 
march 2009 by robertogreco
Facebook's New Terms Of Service: "We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever."
"Facebook's terms of service (TOS) used to say that when you closed an account on their network, any rights they claimed to the original content you uploaded would expire. Not anymore.
facebook  internet  socialnetworking  socialmedia  socialsoftware  security  ethics  rights  legal  2009  consumerist  copyright  content  privacy  via:crystaltips 
february 2009 by robertogreco
Op-Ed Columnist - ROGER COHEN - A Command of the Law - NYTimes.com
"“An Administrative Review Board has reviewed the information about you that was talked about at the meeting on 02 Dec 2005 & the deciding official in the US has made a decision about what will happen to you. You will be sent to the country of Afghanistan. Your departure will occur as soon as possible.” That’s it, the one & only record on paper of protracted U.S. incarceration: 3 sentences for 4 years of a young Afghan’s life, written in language Orwell would have recognized. We have “the deciding official,” not an officer, general or judge...“the information about you,” not allegations, or accusations, let alone charges... “a decision about what will happen to you,” not a judgment, ruling or verdict. This is the lexicon of totalitarianism. It is acutely embarrassing to the US. That is why I am thankful above all that next U.S. commander in chief is a constitutional lawyer. Nothing has been more damaging to the US than the violation of the legal principles at heart of American idea."
us  guantanamo  constitution  law  legal  georgewbush 
november 2008 by robertogreco
Spotlight on DML | Renee Hobbs: Toward an End to Copyright Confusion
"Thanks to a coordinated effort by the media literacy community, teachers and students have a guide that simplifies the legalities of using copyrighted materials as a part of the process of building students’ critical thinking and communication skills: The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education. The document helps educators interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use as it applies to the practice of media literacy education. Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under some circumstances—especially when the cultural or social benefits of the use are predominant. The guide identifies five principles that represent the media literacy education community’s current consensus about acceptable practices for the fair use of copyrighted materials, wherever and however it occurs: in K–12 education, in higher education, in nonprofit organizations that offer programs for children and youth, and in adult education."
copyright  schools  teaching  medialiteracy  fairuse  legal  law 
november 2008 by robertogreco
The Associated Press: Court: Sarkozy Voodoo doll should not be stabbed
"A French appeals court says Voodoo dolls of President Nicolas Sarkozy may remain on sale, but must carry a notice saying that pricking them harms the president's dignity."
nicolassarkozy  voodoo  legal  law  france  vodou 
november 2008 by robertogreco
UNSCHOOLING: Acme Academy Elementary Curriculum
"This is a plan for elementary that took Carol's unschooling curriculum and expanded it using the California state educational standards' language. It could be customized by someone needing to submit something to a school official. I would also be useful as a "suggestion list" for putting different activities under educationese-sounding headings, if you have to turn something in like a report or portfolio. "
unschooling  homeschool  california  compliance  leagal  education  learning  lcproject  standards  legal  elementary  secondary  affidavit 
november 2008 by robertogreco
Unschooling - Elementary and secondary courses of study for California
"A course of study for kids who are elementary school age. This course of study is based on one originally written by Carol Narigon. It has been modified in various ways including changing wording, adding and deleting material. Some material is from California state standards." "Course of Study Secondary: A course of study for kids who are secondary school age. This course of study is based on one originally written by Carol Narigon. It has been modified in various ways including changing wording, adding and deleting material. Some material is from California state standards."
homeschool  unschooling  legal  elementary  secondary  affidavit  education  compliance  california  standards  leagal  learning  lcproject 
november 2008 by robertogreco
Schneier on Security: The Future of Ephemeral Conversation
"Conversation used to be ephemeral. Whether face-to-face or by phone, we could be reasonably sure that what we said disappeared as soon as we said it. Organized crime bosses worried about phone taps and room bugs, but that was the exception. Privacy was just assumed. This has changed. We chat in e-mail, over SMS and IM, and on social networking websites like Facebook, MySpace, and LiveJournal. We blog and we Twitter. These conversations -- with friends, lovers, colleagues, members of our cabinet -- are not ephemeral; they leave their own electronic trails. We know this intellectually, but we haven't truly internalized it. ... When everyone leaves a public digital trail of their personal thoughts since birth, no one will think twice about it being there. Obama might be on the younger side of the generation gap, but the rules he's operating under were written by the older side. It will take another generation before society's tolerance for digital ephemera changes."
bruceschneier  culture  internet  government  generations  ephemeralconversation  future  politics  change  communication  barackobama  mobile  phones  memory  privacy  legal  data  accountability  security  law  etiquette 
november 2008 by robertogreco
Hit & Run > New at Reason: Mike Flynn, Shikha Dalmia, and Terry Colon on America's Absurd Immigration Waiting Line - Reason Magazine
"From our October issue, Mike Flynn, Shikha Dalmia, and Terry Colon show what it takes to legally immigrate to America. Click on the image below to see a larger version. Click again to expand it."
us  immigration  migration  legal  law  infographics  howto  visualization  illustration  diagram  humor 
september 2008 by robertogreco
Digital Natives
"Digital Natives is an interdisciplinary collaboration of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the Research Center for Information Law at the University of St. Gallen. Our aim is to understand and support young people as they grow up in a digital age. Within the project, we make use of a variety of methods to investigate a range of themes pertaining to young people and their use of technologies. Our outputs range from academic publications to hands-on legal, educational, and technological interventions."
education  digitalnatives  technology  legal  learning  teaching  socialmedia  edtech 
august 2008 by robertogreco
A Declaration for Independence - Lawrence Lessig
"If this experiment in democracy launched two centuries ago is to survive, we must revolve back to at least this of its founding ideals: that the government must be architected to check the corrupting influence of improper dependence. This is the first problem reformers must fix. And however impossible it is for politicians and reformers to imagine a world where the people mobilize to demand this change, we must mobilize this world. There is no other choice. The slow slide away from a Republic in which Congress is dependent upon nothing except “the People,” is accelerating. Like the melting of the polar ice caps, at some point, it won’t be reversed."
larrylessig  congress  us  government  reform  change  gamechanging  corruption  legal  law  independence  politics  history  freedom  money 
august 2008 by robertogreco
An interactive guide to Bush-administration lawbreaking. - By Emily Bazelon, Kara Hadge, Dahlia Lithwick, and Chris Wilson - Slate Magazine
"The accompanying diagram (click here or on the module above to launch it) highlights a truth of criminal conspiracy: Whenever legal liability is spread among many actors, it becomes difficult to ascertain with any specificity who's on the hook for what. This, to steal a phrase from Douglas Feith, is "the whole point.""
politics  law  legal  georgewbush  government  crime 
august 2008 by robertogreco
Odd name changes
"Law professor Eugene Volokh rounds up some cases where courts ruled on unusual name changes (like Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii)."
names  naming  parenting  law  legal 
july 2008 by robertogreco
Law prof and cop agree: never ever ever ever ever ever ever talk to the cops about a crime, even if you're innocent - Boing Boing
"In a brilliant pair of videos, James Duane of Regent University School of Law & Officer George Bruch of Virginia Beach Police Dept present a forceful case for never, ever, ever speaking to the police without your lawyer present. Ever. Never, never, never
advice  law  police  crime  rights  evidence  freedom  legal  towatch  corruption 
july 2008 by robertogreco
HOWTO Make online videos without getting sued - Boing Boing
"American University's Center for Social Media has just concluded a long, in-depth project to establish a set of "Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video." They worked with video makers, legal scholars, eminent sociologists, fans and others to create
video  fairuse  bestpracrices  legal  copyright  socialmedia  law  howto  tutorials 
july 2008 by robertogreco
The Kozinski mess (Lessig Blog) [follow-up post here: http://lessig.org/blog/2008/06/on_privacy_in_the_cyberage_ii.html]
"A free society should feed the right to be left alone, including the right not to have to defend publicly private choices and taste, by learning not to feed the privacy trolls."
larrylessig  privacy  internet  law  legal  journalism  freedom  discourse  media  news  politics  rights  security  via:preoccupations 
june 2008 by robertogreco
Cato Unbound » Blog Archive » The Future of Copyright - "Every broken regulation brings a cry for at least one new regulation even more sweepingly worded than the last."
"Copyright law in the 21st century tends to be less concerned about concrete cases of infringement, and more about criminalizing entire technologies because of their potential uses...undermines the freedom of choice...chilling effects on innovation"
copyright  technology  regulation  law  ip  politics  policy  legal  filesharing  privacy  property  government  piratebay  bittorrent  piracy 
june 2008 by robertogreco
Laser Printers Found Guilty of "Making Available" Crimes | Electronic Frontier Foundation
"DMCA takedown notices should be viewed skeptically...Colleges and universities should pay close attention to the findings, given that students often face harsh penalties from their institutions if they are hit with a DMCA notice."
eff  dmca  law  legal  filesharing  bittorrent  software  piracy  copyright 
june 2008 by robertogreco
Sandra Day O'Connor: Game Designer | Game | Life from Wired.com
"detailed a project she is spearheading called Our Courts, which she described as an "online, interactive civic education project for seventh- and eighth-graders" that familiarizes students with the legal system"
sandradayoconnor  law  legal  games  gaming  learning  education  seriousgames  play  middleschool  classideas  government  us  socialstudies 
june 2008 by robertogreco
Belgian Newspapers Demand Google Pay $77 Million For All The Traffic Google Sent Them ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes
"Let's not forget - these people with their patents and their lawsuits and their copyright acts aren't trying to make things better. They're trying to wreck the internet. To wreck our capacity to speak freely with each other."
internet  freedom  stephendownes  press  media  google  law  legal 
may 2008 by robertogreco
Our Data, Ourselves [Bruce Schneier]
"What happens to our data happens to ourselves...Who controls our data controls our lives...We need to take back our data...Our data is a part of us. It's intimate and personal, and we have basic rights to it. It should be protected from unwanted touch."
privacy  security  data  identity  politics  internet  information  datamining  activism  liberty  surveillance  legal  law  bruceschneier  rights 
may 2008 by robertogreco
Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk Blog - Blue Skunk Blog - Changing how we teach copyright Pt 2
"When there is doubt, err on the side of the user....Shouldn't an educator’s automatic assumption be, that unless it is specifically forbidden and legally established in case law, that the use of materials should be allowed? I believe it should."
informationliteracy  fairuse  education  copyright  teaching  learning  law  legal 
april 2008 by robertogreco
TeacherTube - How to create a great PowerPoint without breaking the law.
"A presentation from the eTech Ohio 2008 conference. The topics of the presentation are copyright law and how to create a great PowerPoint presentation."
copyright  design  flickr  legal  piracy  powerpoint  presentations  howto  law  tutorial  education  teaching 
april 2008 by robertogreco
The Subversive View of Copyright ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes
"Terms of Service are not law. We have certain rights (fair use among them) and we ought to be exercising them more. But more to the point, "We should stop wasting our time fussing about this petty ante stuff."
copyright  fairuse  teaching  schools  content  youtube  legal  law  ethics 
april 2008 by robertogreco
Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk Blog - Blue Skunk Blog - The subversive view of copyright
"I say go ahead and download YouTube videos regardless of what the "terms" say. Here is why"
copyright  fairuse  teaching  schools  content  youtube  legal  law  ethics 
april 2008 by robertogreco
Stanford Law Professor Larry Lessig Bets 'Wikipedia' Approach Will Transform Congress | Threat Level from Wired.com
"ambitious project aims to use collaborative software to harness extraordinary levels of pent-up political energy and dissatisfaction that voters have shown over the past two years with their members of congress"
Congress  corruption  freedom  technology  government  socialnetworks  larrylessig  change  reform  activism  us  legal  politics  participation  law  wikipedia  liberty 
march 2008 by robertogreco
"Intellectual property" is a silly euphemism | Technology | guardian.co.uk
"I argue that although knowledge is important and valuable, it's not property, and when we treat it as such, it makes us do dumb things."
corydoctorow  culture  copyright  content  property  rights  ip  knowledge  larrylessig  legal  law  language  technology  philosophy 
february 2008 by robertogreco
Freedom to Tinker
"The focus is on issues related to legal regulation of technology, and especially on legal attempts to restrict the right of technologists and citizens to tinker with technological devices. But we reserve the right to write about anything that strikes our
activism  tinkering  technology  opensource  open  legal  law  homebrew  engineering  ethics  encryption  modding  mobile  commons  censorship  anarchy  software  making  make  hacking  hardware  piracy  policy  politics  regulation  security  society  patents  copyright 
december 2007 by robertogreco
David Byrne and Thom Yorke on the Real Value of Music
"Wired asked Byrne — legendary innovator himself, man who wrote the Talking Heads song "Radio Head" from which group takes name — to talk with Yorke about the In Rainbows distribution strategy and what others can learn from the experience."
davidbyrne  music  radiohead  future  information  business  community  innovation  money  media  legal  rights  drm  technology  economics  freedom 
december 2007 by robertogreco
Infringement Nation: we are all mega-crooks - Boing Boing
"By the end of the day, John has infringed the copyrights of twenty emails, three legal articles, an architectural rendering, a poem, five photographs, an animated character, a musical composition, a painting, and fifty notes and drawings."
copyright  law  legal  piracy  property  ip  creativity  innovation  technology  rights 
november 2007 by robertogreco
Bloggers beware: You're liable to commit libel | Steve Tobak's views on dysfunctional corporate behavior - CNET Blogs
"These days, everybody and his dog has a blog. Unfortunately, almost nobody has a clue about their responsibility under defamation law. And if the dog has a clue, he ain't talkin'."
blogging  law  legal  libel  journalism 
november 2007 by robertogreco
¿Servicio Útil o Delincuencia Encubierta?
"Originalmente...ilegal[es], estos grupos han sido legalizados en algunas ciudades y trabajan hoy, como Viña del Mar, como acomodadores de autos, gestionando el espacio de aparcamiento en las calles con autorización de las autoridades municipales."
chile  viñadelmar  cars  transportation  services  law  legal  crime 
november 2007 by robertogreco
The Piracy Paradox: Financial Page: The New Yorker
"But we should be skeptical of claims that tougher laws are necessarily better laws. Sometimes imitation isn’t just the sincerest form of flattery. It’s also the most productive."
apparel  business  capitalism  competition  consumerism  copyright  culture  design  fashion  innovation  law  legal  patents  piracy  retail  trends  economics 
november 2007 by robertogreco
TED | Talks | Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law (video)
"brings together John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights, and the “ASCAP cartel” to build a case for creative freedom...pins down key shortcomings of our dusty, pre-digital intellectual property laws...reveals how bad laws beget bad code"
larrylessig  readwriteweb  children  capitalism  cc  commons  copyright  creativity  culture  democracy  freedom  learning  law  legal  property  ip  rights  technology  society  piracy  opensource  music  media  ted  activism  meaning  mashup  remix  content  communication  digital  commonsense  writing  film  video  computers  economics  politics  marketing 
november 2007 by robertogreco
Word Spy - avoision
"The gray area of ambiguous acts that fall between legal avoidance and illegal evasion of the law's proscriptions."
crime  law  neologisms  words  english  legal 
november 2007 by robertogreco
Wise Provocation » Protection or Trap?
'We currently operate on the assumption that it is important to protect the school and its staff from litigation. But what if our attempts at protectiion are infact leadingus into a trap? What if the world was to suddenly change? What if the technology we
schools  privacy  fear  technology  security  children  administration  society  change  future  reform  law  legal  management  leadership  teaching  learning 
october 2007 by robertogreco
Get My FBI File
"This web site helps you generate the letters you need to send to the FBI to get a copy of your own FBI file. We can help you get your files from other "three-letter agencies" (CIA, NSA, DIA, ...) too. It's quick, it's easy, and best of all, it's free!"
FBI  government  identity  surveillance  information  documentation  FOIA  NSA  DIA  freedom  personal  legal  privacy  research  security  history 
october 2007 by robertogreco
American lawbreaking: How laws die. - By Tim Wu - Slate Magazine
"This series explores the black spots in American law: areas in which our laws are routinely and regularly broken and where the law enforcement response is … nothing. These are the areas where, for one reason or another, we've decided to tolerate lawbre
law  society  us  history  enforcement  crime  police  politics  legal  immigration  culture  behavior  authority  perception  copyright  drugs  government  research  art  amish  journalism  opinion  philosophy  policy  religion  public  change 
october 2007 by robertogreco

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