Sir Tim Berners-Lee is doing the dirty work of giant internet companies, according to critics who want to see governments lay down effective regulation – and not what they regard as a wishy-washy “Magna Carta”.
It isn’t the first time Berners-Lee has endorsed a “Magna Carta” – he did one in 2014 and another again this week (PDF), only with an added hashtag. We described it as “vanilla, squishy” and a “High School project”.
Open-source advocate Rafael Laguna, co-founder of Open-Xchange, is suspicious that Google and Facebook – the companies most under fir
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Copyright School [AXATE-TEST]
Copyright scofflaw Google has launched a new campaign – to educate people about respecting copyright. And as you might imagine, it has all the sincerity you could expect from David Irving’s guide to the Torah.
It’s aimed at YouTube users who have been flagged for copyright infringement, and includes a cartoon squirrel called Russell, who wears a Pirate’s Hat.
n the cartoon, copyright is something very difficult to understand, but always malevolent. Apparently, distributing videos you’ve taken on your iPhone containing a musical performance you’ve taped without permission is