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A View From the Fence Show 2a: Technology and Politics

Hello all,

Here is show 2a: Technology and Politics

Show Notes:

  • Main Discussion topic (segments 1 and 3): Politics relating media standards, copyrights in the digital world. Comparison on the “old” vs “new” models as relate to media, standardization organization and their influence in politics. How the media as an industry is coping with the ever changing world of technology and digital advances. How artists, writers, etc are creating a whole new model of creating and disseminating their works bypassing the traditional “big” industry model. The power of organizations such as RIAA and MPAA in this environment and their effects in both the political world and effects on the end consumer.
  • Interview (segment 2): Dwight Silverman of the Houston Chronicle. Topic: Net Neutrality
    Information regarding Dwight Silverman:

    Tech Blog
    http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/Techbytes
    http://www.geekradio.com/

    His Book on Amazon
    Running Windows on Your Mac

Promos: Vote Kosh for president and Agave Kosh Tequila

Stay tuned for Show 2b:  Your Voice Messages and extended portion of Interview with Dwight Silverman: New freedoms and responsibilities in the internet world.  Blogs and online media and their effects on traditional media sources, ie newspapers.

Enjoy!

 
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2 Responses to “A View From the Fence Show 2a: Technology and Politics”

  1. Pilitus
    18. June 2008 at 13:26

    You guys got copyright completely wrong. Copyright was originally a “fuzzy” issue with federal laws that governed published materials, leaving the states to decide the protections upon unpublished works. The copyright act of 1976, which brought the US copyright laws closer to the international standard, The Berne Convention, took the whole of copyright law into the federal level.

    And it is the Federal government’s place to set copyright length. Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the constitution gives congress to set the protections of “Science and the Useful Arts.” That covers both trademark and copyright. It is the federal government’s place.

    The fact that our copyright laws are being written by corporate lobbyists for Disney is a whole other matter, one that is causing problems as corporations are attempting to purchase the closure of the “Limited Time” that is allowed by the copyright clause.

  2. lambo
    18. June 2008 at 13:49

    Pilitus,

    You are right, I totally forgot the Berne Convention. Also, thanks for pointing that out, we will make a point of that in show 3. Well, I knew there will be a point we would screw up something and an audience member corrects us.

    Thanks

    Oops, our bad.

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