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Freedom to Differ

A blog that speaks freely about legal issues facing the media and the internet. It mainly covers issues relating to the legal regulation of the internet and the media, but at times Constitutional law issues and politics are discussed. While the focus is on Australia, developments in other nations around the world are considered as well.

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A social Big Brother

Posted on April 28, 2008
The online presence of Australian Big Brother, which launched tonight, is embracing user-generated content: NETWORK Ten is about to take a big leap into the world of social media with the launch of more user-generated content on the official Big Brother 2008 website and a Facebook profile...

APEC charges against The Chaser dropped

Posted on April 28, 2008
The APEC-related charges against members of ABC TV's The Chaser's War on Everything have been dropped. The New South Wales Director of Public Prosecutions, Nicholas Cowdery QC, has released this statement explaining his reasons for dropping the charges: Direction Today I have directed that there be no further proceedings on...

It's hard to tell what is real these days ...

Posted on April 28, 2008
TV Tonight reports on this bizarre intersection of several forms of so-called "reality TV": Fake Corey just part of the Act No that isn't Corey Worthington, but this promo made by the Movie Networks Channel was enough to trigger complaints by viewers who felt it inappropriate to hire the notorious...

Teachers go wild

Posted on April 28, 2008
The Washington Post presents a dilemma for young school teachers: It's almost like Googling someone: Log on to Facebook. Join the Washington, D.C., network. Search the Web site for your favorite school system. And then watch the public profiles of 20-something teachers unfurl like gift wrap on the screen, revealing...

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Social networking safely

Posted on April 28, 2008
PC World and the Washington Post both published stories yesterday on how to social network safely. From PC World: Howard Schmidt was reluctant to hop on the social networking bandwagon--a byproduct, he says, of the paranoia he internalizes a security professional...

Howard Knopf uninvited to the Public Policy Forum

Posted on April 28, 2008
Howard Knopf has been uninvited to the Public Policy Forum on intellectual property reform in Canada, as he explains on his blog: I have now been uninvited to the Public Policy Forum (?PPF?) IP program entitled INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY REFORM: INNOVATION AND THE ECONOMY on April 28, 2008, which will now...

no caps? no worries ... lol

Posted on April 27, 2008
A recent study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project considers the e-communication language of teenagers: As e-mail messages, text messages and social network postings become nearly ubiquitous in the lives of teenagers, the informality of electronic communications is seeping into their schoolwork, a new study says...

Roundtable Seminar - Reforming the Constitution

Posted on April 27, 2008
This week on Thursday 1 May I'll be participating in a Roundtable Seminar on Reforming the Constitution at Parliament House in Canberra. This is the media release: Committee roundtable to discuss constitutional reform Federal-State relations, a constitutional preamble and issues of citizenship will be on the agenda at a roundtable...

What do people think this blog is?

Posted on April 27, 2008
I was looking at the Feedburner statistics for my blog this evening and was amused - and a little horrified - to discover in the past month that these were the top search terms that resulted in people visiting my blog: Yes unfortunately my blog seems to be a magnet...

Australian domain name transfer made easier

Posted on April 26, 2008
The Australian Trade Marks Law Blog reports that .au domain name transfer is to be made easier: As of 1 June 2008, a new and more flexible registrant transfer policy comes into effect, allowing domain name registrants to transfer their domain name licence to another eligible entity for any reason...

Cera on Showalter

Posted on April 26, 2008
Michael Cera, of Arrested Development and Superbad fame, on the Michael Showalter "Showalter" for CHTV: See more funny videos at CollegeHumor

Social networking at work

Posted on April 26, 2008
PC World suggests that firms are getting blind-sided by social networking: Still thinking about building a social-networking site for your employees? Sure they haven't started without you? Check Facebook, you might get a surprise. As companies grapple with whether, and how, to offer a social-networking platform for their workers, some...

Sex 2.0

Posted on April 26, 2008
With the Web 2.0 Expo being held this week, Wired's Regina Lynn instead offers seven reasons why you'd be better off going to sex conferences instead: When it comes to technology, it's the great unfulfilled needs that matter most. That's where the next fortunes will be made...

Justice Scalia on 60 Minutes: Al Gore got courts involved in Florida; time to "get over it"

Posted on April 26, 2008
US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says that the 2000 Bush v Gore decision wasn't political and that folks need to get over it:

Facebook undercover

Posted on April 26, 2008
In the UK, police going undercover to spy on Facebook users: Scotland Yard has set up a special squad to police Facebook, the social networking site, and spy on criminals who brag about their crimes. While the website is popular with millions who use it to message friends and organise...

YouTube university

Posted on April 26, 2008
Ars Technica reports on a recent attempt to teach a university course through YouTube: The ease of video production has greatly expanded the academic world's ability to communicate, and has been used successfully as a supplement to the classroom experience...

How to plot your e-venge

Posted on April 26, 2008
The Observer discusses a trend that sees ex-lovers getting their revenge online: Don't get mad; get email. That was Tessa Martin's way of getting over a string of broken love affairs. She didn't cut up her ex-boyfriends' trousers, write off their cars or seek inspiration from Glenn Close's character in...

Mobiles not allowed in New York schools

Posted on April 25, 2008
Ars Technica reports that the New York Supreme Court has upheld a ban on mobile phones in schools: Kids in New York City's public schools will have to continue doing without their cell phones. Yesterday, New York Supreme Court Judge Angela Mazzarelli denied an attempt to overturn a ban on...

New logo for DataPortability

Posted on April 25, 2008
DataPortability has a brand new logo: Learn more about DataPortability here.

Magic Wall vs Bill Board

Posted on April 25, 2008
MTV News' Tim Kash goes behind the scenes at CNN to play with John King's Magic Wall:

Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle

Posted on April 25, 2008
TechCrunch looks at some of the domain names owned by Google: Uptime monitoring service Pingdom has put together a list of thousands of .com domain names owned by Google, based on an analysis of the root zone file. They then verified the most interesting ones with WHOIS information...

A 2.0bituary and the Big Social Media Lie

Posted on April 25, 2008
Craig Stoltz highlights a a blog entry by Stowe Boyd on "John Edwards?s 2.0bituary and the Big Social Media Lie": This seems like an odd day to write about John Edwards, whom some of you may remember was running for president at some remote time in the past, like February...

What can you take from the web?

Posted on April 24, 2008
Kirk Teska, an adjunct law professor at Suffolk University Law School, has put together for IEEE Spectrum a good explanation of what you can legally take from the internet: Intellectual property law has a history of clashing with new technologies. In the early 1900s, for example, when player pianos were...

Google Me

Posted on April 24, 2008
CNET News.com reports on an unusual new film: You know you've done it. Like just almost anyone who knows how to use a computer, I'm willing to bet you've googled your own name to see what's out there about you, and to see who else has the same name. In...

Lessig will survive

Posted on April 23, 2008
Larry Lessig gets defensive on the RedState flap: Many of you have written about the REDSTATE blog entry, pointing to an excerpt of a talk I gave at Google in which I showed a video by Javier Prato in which Jesus is singing Gloria Gaynor's "I will survive...

"A swing and a miss for 'three strikes' policy"

Posted on April 23, 2008
Michael Geist looks at the move towards requiring internet service providers to terminate subscribers if they engage in file-sharing activities on three occasions: The new baseball season is in full swing, yet in recent months the phrase "three strikes and you're out" has taken on an entirely different meaning on...

Vote in the Fugly Awards

Posted on April 23, 2008
The nominees for the 2008 TV Fugly Awards have been announced and you can now vote for the winners here.

Copyright and dancing on treadmills

Posted on April 23, 2008
Techdirt asks can you copyright the idea of dancing on treadmills? By now, one hopes that you've seen the incredibly creative video that the band Ok Go did for the song "Here It Goes Again." The video, filmed in a single take, has the four band members dancing across a...

Lessig will survive

"A swing and a miss for 'three strikes' policy"

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