This category page consists of links to articles about controlling content on the Internet. It’s mainly for my students in BGGE and PPR who are doing the Internet Content project. Every week there are examples from all over the world of 3-way conflicts among governments, users, and corporations. I won’t try to organize them, just post them.
You can discuss these in the comments here, or over in the First Class folder for your course.
German court deals YouTube a blow in copyright case – SiliconValley.com.
HAMBURG — A German court in Hamburg dealt Google (GOOG) a blow on Friday, saying its YouTube online video-sharing site needed to prevent its users from posting copyrighted music clips without permission.
The suit was brought against YouTube in 2010 by German royalty collections body GEMA and several other groups handling music rights for allegedly infringing copyrights.
The test case concerns seven music clips and could be a step toward YouTube and other operators of websites publishing user-generated content having to pay large sums in royalties.
Art and Science in Technology - Roger Bohn's Blog 