It has often been said that the Internet has collapsed distances and other forms of separation between people, from class and generational gaps to political divides. This week, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a Democrat who represents the San Jose, California area, is using the Web’s transcendent properties to probe the public mind for ideas on copyright…
Look, I understand that SOPA was not a popular idea, and even as an advocate for online enforcement of copyright I thought the bill was overly broad and otherwise problematic, but there comes a point where the anti-SOPA rhetoric goes a little over the top, and I think the activist group Demand Progress may have…
In light of the popularity and rapid viral spread of various Internet memes, it’s only natural that companies would seek to tap into this powerful modern spin on traditional “word of mouth marketing” by incorporating well-known memes into their advertising materials. In light of some thorny intellectual property issues surrounding the commercial use of memes,…
Two recently published reports, one from Musicmetric and the other from Sandvine, report recent declines in illegal downloads of music and videos (or, at least, reduced use of platforms that are popular for the download of such files), and both point to an increase consumer adoption of legitimate sources for streamed content as the reason…
