WordPress, Reddit, Cheezburger and Others Join New "Internet Defense League"

Source: All Things Digital

In the hopes that the online enthusiasm and organizing that helped fend off anti-piracy bills SOPA and PIPA in U.S. Congress this year be captured and redeployed, online activists are now founding an “Internet Defense League.” Members sign up to receive ...
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Torrents of trouble

Source: Business Standard

It is necessary, therefore, to think through the legal and practical issues here carefully, while acknowledging and privileging the moral right of creators to be compensated for their work. Some creators of content, like the British ba ...
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Searching for Life on Hulu

Source: AdWeek

Just over a year ago, Hulu sold out its advertising inventory. And while still a nascent offering, that was a notable achievement in a world of Internet startups largely focused on capturing users before dollars. Not that the site ...
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Classic Obfuscation: The New America Foundation’s Search for the “Public Interest”

Source: Openmarket.org

Milton Friedman once quipped that “Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.” Perhaps he would add the outmoded idea of the “public interest” as used by the FCC if he were still alive today. On May 23, the New Ame ...
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Time Warner in talks for Bleacher Report: WSJ

Source: MarketWatch

Want to see how this story relates to your portfolio? Just add items to create a portfolio now: NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Time Warner Inc.'s (NYSE:TWX) Turner unit is in talks to acquire the Bleacher Report sports website, accor ...
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Parse Adds Role-based Access Controls

Source: Hacker News

Imagine, for a moment: you're building an app with a grand vision - it will have lots of users, user-generated content, and be so popular that it'll need a teams of people to curate the content and make sure everything lives up to yo ...
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World Health Assembly: Members Agree On NCD Resolution

Source: Intellectual Property Watch

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Square Enix’s Mike Fischer says Activision was “crazy” to abandon True Crime: Hong Kong (interview)

Source: VentureBeat

Mike Fischer is the president and chief executive of the U.S. division of Square Enix. The Japanese parent company is the publisher of hit video games such as the Final Fantasy series, but it isn’t satisfied with just a strong position in Japan ...
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WIPO Committee On Patents Struggles To Decide On Future Work

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