Category: legal | 合法的 | 법률학 | 法的
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The Future of Ideas
I was curious to read Lawrence Lessig‘s The Future of Ideas because of Google’s recent intervention in the ongoing wireless spectrum auction being held in America. Google sought to get slivers of American wireless spectrum in the 90MHz space with a view to providing an alternative form of broadband access. This would be a challenge…
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Internet freedom
A couple of stories related to internet freedom that came to my attention this morning. Internet freedom in China First off today’s New York Times magazine has an indepth feature about the challenges that China presents to Internet companies seeking a Chinese audience. Google’s China Problem (and China’s Google Problem) by Clive Thompson is balanced…
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Fahrenheit 9 11
A posting on Interesting-People.org. US adverts for Moore’s movie Fahrenheit 9 11 could be stopped from July 30 if the Federal Election Commission (FEC) accepts the legal advice of its lawyers. At the same time, a Republican-allied 527 soft-money group is preparing to file a complaint against Moore’s film with the FEC for violating campaign-finance…
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Free party clampdown
An old clubbing pal of mine from Birkenhead Si forwarded on this interesting article in the Western Morning News. According to the article police are preparing to use the wide ranging powers of the Anti Social Behaviour Act 2003 to clamp down on unauthorised open-air gatherings – a free party; in conjunction with provisions already…