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Destabilizing the UK's Digital Economy
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| Much of the coverage of the UK's proposed
| Digital Economy bill has centered, and
| rightly so, on the damaging consequences to
| civil liberties for Britons caused by its
| Internet termination provisions. Less
| documented is quite how damaging these
| regulations are for the bill's own
| namesake: Britain's present and future
| digital economy.
|
| The history of Net businesses shows that an
| integral feature of the digital economy is
| decentralized innovation and the creation
| of generative new markets by individuals or
| small, loosely-affiliated groups. These
| generators of wealth often begin as end-
| users of the Net, unconnected with
| established companies. When they start,
| they don't have lobbyists, and their
| entrepreneurship is not yet recognized as
| part of the country's vital digital
| infrastructure or core creative industries
| â or even a business interest at all.
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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/12/destabilizing-uks-digital-economy
Changes to licensing arrangements for Crown copyright information
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| We are also in discussions with the
| Department of Communities and Local
| Government (DCLG) and Office for National
| Statistics (ONS) about the re-use of some
| of their charged publications. We will
| clarify the situation as soon as possible.
| In the meantime anyone wanting to re-use
| any DCLG or ONS priced publications should
| contact us directly.
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http://perspectives.opsi.gov.uk/2009/12/changes-to-licensing-arrangements-for-crown-copyright-information.html
Digital Economy Bill: Internet risk in 'Henry VIII clause'
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| The most draconian law on copyright since
| the time of Henry VIII. Mandates
| infrastructure for wide-scale censorship.
| Removes Parliamentary scrutiny.
|
| In other words, it is more than 3-strikes.
|
| The Digital Economy Bill, which gets its
| second reading in the House of Lords today,
| is the most draconian law to regulate
| access to information and cultural works
| since the introduction of the printing
| press in the 15th century. It threatens to
| re-introduce a regime of censorship not
| seen since the time when England was ruled
| by Kings and Queens. The only difference is
| that then it was religious censorship, now
| it is commercial.
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http://www.iptegrity.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=436&Itemid=9
Lily Allen: âIâve stopped everything. I havenât got a computer or
blackberry. I donât do emails or anything now.â
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| Clearly Lily Allenâs embarrassing slip up
| in her campaign against illegal downloading
| has had rather severe personal
| consequences.
|
| The British singer songwriter, launched a
| public campaign again unauthorised file
| sharing, but then stabbed herself in the
| foot when she wrote a blog post detailing
| her arguments which then, ironically,
| turned out to be someone elseâs blog post
| sheâd copied herself.
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http://thenextweb.com/uk/2009/12/02/lily-allen-stopped-computer-blackberry-emails/
Debating the Digital Economy Bill: Exercise in futility?
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| The House of Lords debated yesterday the
| Digital Economy Bill, and I use the phrase
| âdebateâ in the loosest possible sense.
| What we got was a depressingly one-sided
| affair replete with misrepresentation,
| misunderstanding of the core issues,
| swallowing the industryâs figures without
| question, and corroboration that the House
| of Lords is an anachronistic, anti-
| democratic institution replete with
| sickening back-slapping, old-boy cronyism
| and undeserved deference.
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http://www.technollama.co.uk/debating-the-digital-economy-bill
Digital Economy Bill: Most Lords Support It, But Excessive
Powers Draw Suspicion
http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-digital-economy-bill-most-lords-support-it-but-excessive-powers-draw-su/
Information Insecurity: how the web is fighting itself to death
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| The proposed Digital Economy Bill has,
| perhaps unsurprisingly, garnered a lot of
| attention in the blogosphere and
| occasionally beyond.
|
| It had all started so differently; Lord
| Carterâs Digital Britain report was by no
| means perfect, but the discussion was broad
| â on universal broadband provision, opening
| up the wireless spectrum and looking at
| reforming traditional media, as well as the
| inevitable protections against copyright
| infringement.
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http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/2009/12/01/information-insecurity-how-the-web-is-fighting-itself-to-death/4
Recent:
Guns Nâ Roses sued for copyright violation
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| The RIAA, FBI and GunsânâRoses wanted him jailed
| for uploading nine unreleased tracks from the
| bandâs Chinese Democracy album to his blog, said
| p2pnet in July.
|
| [...]
|
| In an ironic twist, Guns Nâ Roses is being
| accused of, you guessed it, copyright
| infringement.
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http://www.p2pnet.net/story/29576
A Song For Lily Allen... And A Little Conversation
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| And, despite her deleting her blog, some actually
| saved many of the comments on her blog. And, again,
| they don't show "abuse," but thoughtful, reasoned
| argument along these lines -- none of which Ms.
| Allen has responded to as of yet. That post, by the
| way, also highlights numerous factual errors in Ms.
| Allen's earlier responses.
|
| So, yes, I'm going to post this video, because I
| think it's great (and catchy) and because I think it
| does further the conversation, just not in the
| direction that Ms. Allen intended. It's from a fan
| of Ms. Allen's work, and is endearing, not
| attacking. It's entertaining. It's free... and it
| got me to go and buy Dan Bull's first album, even
| though he's offering it up for free, too.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090927/1825076330.shtml
Blow for music industry as Lily Allen says Peter Mandelson's plans too draconian
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| The music industryâs battle to have persistent internet
| pirates disconnected was dealt a huge blow last night
| after leading musicians including Lily Allen settled
| their differences and agreed that plans to suspend
| internet access were too draconian.
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http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article6848502.ece
Squeeze file-sharers, stars say
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| Instead, they released a statement saying persistent
| offenders should have their bandwidths "squeezed".
|
| Artists including Allen, George Michael, Annie Lennox,
| Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien and Pink Floyd drummer
| Nick Mason signed the statement.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8274072.stm
Lily Allen Distributing Tons Of Copyrighted Music; Blows Way Past Three Strikes
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| It appears that she actually qualifies. Quite directly.
| She's offering music from, among others, Jay-Z, Jefferson
| Airplane, The Specials and The Kinks. Admittedly, it's
| just a quick look around, but it appears many of the
| artists whose works she's distributing for free have no
| connection with EMI. Even if they did, remember EMI was
| recently claiming that it's never authorized MP3s for
| distribution for publicity purposes. Uh oh.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090923/1409046297.shtml
Some Questions For Lily Allen
http://techdirt.com/articles/20090923/1138026294.shtml
A Teaching Moment For Lily Allen [Update: And Poof Goes Her Blog]
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| Update: Wow. In the half an hour or so that I took to
| write this post, Lily erased the blog post where she
| responded (I've got a screenshot if anyone wants to see
| it), and just added a note to Twitter, saying that she's
| shut down the entire blog due to too much abuse. Lily,
| it's not abuse if we're just asking you to rethink your
| positions that appear to not be particularly well thought
| out.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090924/0241556300.shtml
Lily Allen, Don't Apologize To Me, Apologize To Everyone Else
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| If anyone deserves an apology, it's all the people you've been
| blasting with this complaint that it's "piracy" that's somehow
| harming artists, when the actual evidence shows no such thing.
| Plenty of artists have learned to embrace file sharing and
| used it to their advantage, suggesting it's not piracy that's
| the problem -- it's artists unwillingness to adapt and put in
| place smarter business models.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090922/0310156273.shtml
Lily Allen: Copying Isn't Alright... Unless It's Done By Lily Allen
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| But what's quite odd is that Ms. Allen, while complaining
| about such unfair copying, seemed to have absolutely no
| problem with copying my entire Techdirt post -- without
| credit or a link.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090921/0527456270.shtml
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