Posting will be light to non-existent for the next month or two – have to focus on Brain Candy site overhaul and rebranding, Runes of Gallidon site updates, the new series of posts about digital content I want to draft, and a lot of Kenji writing that’s gotten pushed off recently.
Apologies in advance…
Boing Boing just provided an update on the ACTA language and policy, and it’s about as bad as informed observers feared.
Based on what has been leaked so far and including statements from various countries currently participating in this essentially closed-door negotiation process, it would appear that the U.S. and other countries have grown tired of trying to force their policies through the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) after being blocked by developing countries and NGO’s. So, rather than fight it out in WIPO (who, by the way, gave us the (ahem) brilliant DMCA legislation), they’re taking their marbles and going home in a huff to draft their own copyright policy, ACTA.
Just how twisted does your copyright policy have to be for you to sidestep WIPO and form your own private club to get your way…?
Wired just posted about yet another DOJ appointment having come straight from the RIAA legal halls. That’s FIVE RIAA appointments.
I am struggling – incredibly hard – to reconcile this trend in DOJ appointments with an administration that paints itself as forward-thinking and technically savvy.
The current U.S. copyright and IP laws are subsidizing broken business models and strangling creativity. How this line of appointments will help us navigate a path towards better innovation in the future is beyond this monkey’s simple brain…
The recent PR dust-up regarding Amazon’s delisting and re-tagging of various books (many of them falling in the LGBT lit genres) in their system that then caused those books to be far harder to find – and therefore buy – was a great PR lesson of what not to do (unless your goal is to make a lot of customers angry and create a really, really awful PR mess during a holiday weekend; if so Amazon FTW!). Continue reading →
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