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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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More on Microsoft and Yahoo

Posted on February 04, 2008
Mark Cuban explains Why Yahoo should say Yes to MicroSoft: One thing about Jerry Yang that I always have admired is that he cares. He cares about his employees. He cares about his products. He cares about his shareholders. Most of all he cares about building a world class company...

YouTube lawsuits

Posted on February 04, 2008
The Utube Blog has an excellent summary of the status of the various lawsuits that have been filed against YouTube. Read the update here.

"Protest starts on Facebook, ends in the street"

Posted on February 04, 2008
The Berkman Center's Digital Natives blog provides an example of the power of Facebook: Hundreds of thousands of Columbians are expected to march today in 185 cities across the globe in protest of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and their use of kidnapping as a weapon...

Where to watch the Super Bowl commercials

Posted on February 03, 2008
YouTube has a dedicated channel where you can watch and vote on your favourite Super Bowl commercials. Check out the ads and vote here.

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"I just don't see it as a TV series. Maybe a movie?"

Posted on February 03, 2008
Arrested Development fans my remember an exchange in the last episode when Maeby pitched her family's story to Ron Howard, who said: "I just don't see it as a TV series. Maybe a movie?" Well, an Arrested Development movie may well happen now, according to E! Online's Kristin Dos Santos:...

Super Bowl Commercials

Posted on February 03, 2008
Yes, it is Super Bowl time again (although I sure every American reading this blog is already more then aware of this fact), and Mahalo is promising live coverage of the commercials. Check it out here. This ad is already being predicted as one of the most discussed ads of...

The story of the week: Microsoft and Yahoo

Posted on February 03, 2008
Hundreds (possibly thousands) of articles and blog posts have been written this week about Microsoft's offer of $44.6 billion to acquire Yahoo, however I thought it may be useful to highlight a couple of particularly good or interesting articles on this very significant tech story...

"Law professors dress scruffily, and we need to do something about that"

Posted on February 03, 2008
The title of this post is the very simple, one line abstract to the following article: Jensen, Erik M., "Law School Attire: A Call for a Uniform Uniform Code" . Oklahoma City University Law Review, Forthcoming Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1020738 Here is an extended extract from Jensen's introduction to a...

Cheating 101

Posted on February 03, 2008
Law Geek Jason Schultz has posted a collection of videos where students demonstrate their favourite techniques for cheating in exams. You can watch the videos here. I'm not sure whether these students are brave, foolish, or champions of free speech ....

Some exciting upcoming events at QUT

Posted on February 03, 2008
The Intellectual Property: Knowledge, Culture and Economy Research Program based at the Law Faculty at Queensland University of Technology has a couple of exciting upcoming events ... ---------- The Knowledge Commons Symposium - Wednesday 6 February ?The Knowledge Commons?: what is it and why is it important to Australia?s innovation...

I'm back ...

Posted on February 03, 2008
Alot has been happening to blog about, so expect a flurry of posts this evening ... In the meantime, I've bookmarked 38 news articles on del.icio.us that may be of interest to some of you. If you're looking for a tech news fix, visit my del.icio.us page here.

Google on Microsoft and Yahoo; Microsoft responds

Posted on February 03, 2008
Google has come out in a blog post on the Official Google Blog by David Drummond, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer, and stated that: Microsoft's hostile bid for Yahoo! raises troubling questions. This is about more than simply a financial transaction, one company taking over another...

Australia 2020 Summit

Posted on February 03, 2008
The Australian media and blogosphere are all abuzz about Kevin Rudd's announcement yesterday that he will convene an Australia 2020 Summit in April: The Rudd Government will convene an Australia 2020 Summit at Parliament House on 19 and 20 April to help shape a long term strategy for the nation?s...

Blogging to resume this weekend

Posted on February 01, 2008
My apologies for the lack of posts over the last few days - I've been trying to finish an article. Hopefully blogging will resume as normal sometime in the next day or so.

Prologue versus Twitter

Posted on January 29, 2008
Mike Bogle at Tech Ticker has an excellent post comparing and contrasting Prologue and Twitter: Wordpress launched Prologue today, in a move that many technophiles and bloggers have immediately heralded as the death of Twitter. Personally, I think the hype has gotten the better of far too many people...

Target to the blogosphere: you?re irrelevant

Posted on January 29, 2008
A public relations misstep by Target is now international news, courtesy of the New York Times: Target to the blogosphere: you?re irrelevant. That was the message the cheap-chic retailer seemed to convey in an abrupt e-mail message to ShapingYouth.org, a blog about the impact of marketing on children...

A Techmeme for Twitter

Posted on January 29, 2008
TechCrunch reviews Tweetmeme, a fantastic new site that acts as a Techmeme for Twitter: It had to happen sooner or later. We?ve had Technorati. We?ve had TechMeme. Now we have Tweetmeme, which will track what?s hot on micro-blogging platform Twitter. The business of tracking the online conversation just a got...

Huckabee endorses GodTube

Posted on January 29, 2008
I blogged about GodTube last year (see here), and now Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee offers his support: We've all heard about the importance of YouTube in the 2008 presidential campaign. But what about GodTube? GodTube is a new online video social networking community for Christians -- basically, YouTube for The...

Election law and the internet

Posted on January 29, 2008
This report from The New Zealand Herald highlights the difficulty of applying election laws to the internet: The Electoral Finance Act has claimed its first scalp after a 21-year-old was obliged to take down his website when the Electoral Commission said it breached election rules by not including his name...

Delver: a new social search

Posted on January 29, 2008
TechCrunch reviews a promising social search engine, Delver: What if a search engine knew who your friends were and delivered results based on their actions and content across the Web? Today at the DEMO conference, an Israeli startup called Delver (formerly Semingo) is coming out of stealth and announcing its...

Qtrax update

Posted on January 29, 2008
Yesterday I blogged about Free and legal P2P music from Qtrax, although it now seems that Qtrax's announcement was premature: This is being covered to death elsewhere, so I won?t spend too much time on it. But if a startup is going to spend nearly $1 million announcing a new...

The Negotiating Table

Posted on January 28, 2008
WGA and AMPTP negotiators return to the table in this skit written by Family Guy creator Seth Macfarlane: The Negotiating Table on FunnyOrDie.com

Corey Delaney's other party

Posted on January 28, 2008
Corey Delaney becomes responsible for another unruly party:

Changes

Posted on January 28, 2008
This cleverly edited video makes fun of the recurring theme of the US Presidential primaries - change:

Terrorism and speech

Posted on January 28, 2008
In a piece for FindLaw's Writ, Joanne Mariner considers terrorism and speech: Restrictions of all sorts have multiplied in the heightened security environment of the last six-and-a-half years, so it should be no surprise that, around the world, legal restrictions on speech have tightened...

A novel use of the Protect Act

Posted on January 28, 2008
Wired reports on a novel use of the US Protect Act that is being appealed all the way to the US Supreme Court: Criminal defense lawyers say they will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review a novel legal approach the government has begun using to win stiff mandatory prison...

Web Hot or Not?

Posted on January 28, 2008
Mashable reviews a new website, Web Hot or Not?: Technorati founder David Sifry has just launched a website with investor friend Martin Varsavsky that is, in so many words, a Hot or Not for websites. Actually, it?s called Web Hot or Not, so you get the point right away here...

A Blackberry for everyone

Posted on January 28, 2008
PC World reports that soon the new jazzed up Blackberry will be in the hands of everyone, not just executives: Research In Motion has leapt into the retail consumer market with products such as its pink BlackBerry Pearl, a candybar-shaped e-mail phone stuffed with multimedia goodies, exposing itself to shoppers'...

Free and legal P2P music from Qtrax

Posted on January 28, 2008
A big announcement Midem conference in Cannes, France: After years of fighting peer-to-peer file-sharing companies, the major record labels have decided that if they can't beat them, they might as well join them -- in one case, anyway. At the Midem conference in Cannes, France, Qtrax announced deals with all...

The life cycle of a blog post

Posted on January 27, 2008
Wired has a fantastic graphic showing what happens to a blog-post after you click "publish": You have a blog. You compose a new post. You click Publish and lean back to admire your work. Imperceptibly and all but instantaneously, your post slips into a vast and recursive network of software...

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