Month: May 2004
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Dare To Be Naive
Ernest Miller at CopyFight has an interesting response to my discussion yesterday of the Broadcast Flag. I wrote that the Flag is bad regulation, being poorly targeted at the goal of protecting TV broadcasts from Internet redistribution. Ernie replies that the Flag is actually well-targeted regulation, but for a different purpose: [Y]ou’d have to be…
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Where Does Your Government Stand on the WIPO Broadcasting Treaty?
The Union for the Public Domain is asking for help in surveying national governments about their (the governments’) positions on the WIPO Broadcast Treaty. The UPD is looking for volunteers who are willing to contact the appropriate representatives of their national government, ask the representatives a series of questions provided by the UPD, record the…
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Regulating Stopgap Security
I wrote previously about stopgap security, a scenario in which there is no feasible long-term defense against a security threat, but instead one resorts to a sequence of measures that have only short-term efficacy. Today I want to close the loop on that topic, by discussing how government might regulate fields that rely on stopgap…