The California First Amendment Coalition has joined other supporters of journalism in filing a legal brief on behalf of Josh Wolf. He’s in jail for contempt of court, because he refused to hand over to the federal government out-takes of footage he shot at a street demonstration in San Francisco. While Wolf’s sympathies may well […]
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Future of Video Lies in Open Networks
The annual Aspen Institute Conference on Communications Policy starts today, and I’m participating. The basic mission is to take note of huge changes in the way video will move around the world in coming years, and then consider how to create “a regulatory regime appropriate to the new world of video.” Needless to say, one […]
New Collaboration: Cyberlaw and Citizen Media
Also posted at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society: If citizen journalism is to become a valuable part of the media ecosystem, citizen journalists will need help in navigating increasingly choppy legal waters — and the legal community will need better information on what’s happening in the citizen media arena as well. Those are […]
Apparent PR Sleaze
The Wall Street Journal asks, “Where Did That Video Spoofing Gore’s Film Come From? The answer, it appears, is a PR firm that also represents Exxon Mobil: In an email exchange with The Wall Street Journal, Toutsmith didn’t answer when asked who he was or why he made the video, which has just over 59,000 […]
Traditional Media's Latest Credibility Hits
After its ridiculous cover headline claiming that Digg.com’s founder has “made $60 million” — based on valuations, not cashed in for real money, by unnamed people “in the know” — Business Week is still refusing to acknowledge its goof, as Scott Rosenberg’s notes in a trenchant post: Now the magazine can either publish a correction, […]
Tom Evslin, Net Neutrality, Berkman Conversation
The Berkman Center luncheon series will feature Tom Evslin next Tuesday, in a conversation about network neutrality and ways to ensure that the owners of the data pipes don’t abuse their power.
ShareSleuth's Careful Launch
ShareSleuth, the new online news venture created by Chris Carey and funded by Mark Cuban, is taking its time in launching — in part to think through some serious issues.
Private Communications: One More Reason Why Reporters Need to Be More Tech Savvy
The time has come, plainly, for journalists to start getting savvy about the use of technology for secure communications.
Criminalizing Photography
The police want to stop photography in public places; we need to resist.
Indian Government in the Censorship Business, Too?
BoingBoing has collected a number of links that strongly suggest India’s government, in the wake of last week’s bombings, is on a broad Internet censorship campaign. It’s bad enough to watch China do this kind of thing, but India is supposed to be a democracy. The terrorists must be delighted to see such an over-the-top […]