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Licensing Before content owners get too excited about the possibility of mandatory Internet content filtering coming to Europe, highlighted in a Reuters story Monday based on leaked portions of a pending European Commission report on intellectual property rights, they might want to read through the full document now that it’s available on the EC website. Any action that could Read More …

EU to put ISPs in piracy cross-hairs?

Copyright With political leaders and technology executives from the G8 countries set to gather in Paris this week to discuss global Internet policy ( the “e-G8”), the European Commission is apparently poised to unveil its own proposal for enlisting Internet service providers in fighting online piracy “at [the] source.” According to a Reuters report Monday, Read More …

Do as I say, not as I do

Copyright National governments must operate in several different domains at once, both domestic and international. To expect absolute consistency in its positions across all of those domains is to misapprehend the role and process of government. Yet for all that, the contrast between current efforts in Congress to block U.S. citizens’ access to certain “rogue” Read More …

Hulu IPO back on?

Online Video Could the short-circuited Hulu IPO be back on? That’s one plausible outcome of the new long-term licensing deals the online video joint venture has apparently reached with its network owners. According to a statement sent to the Wall Street Journal by Hulu CEO Jason Kilar, “News Corp [Fox], Disney [ABC], Providence and the Hulu Read More …