Richard's Kingdom

The Open Rights Group calls attention to a proposed Digital Economy Bill amendment that, if accepted, would allow the Government to censor the web in the name of enforcing copyright law.
I have put fingers to keyboard once again, therefore, resulting in the following missive to the noble Lords who came up with the idea.

Dear Lord [...]

Facebook caused a stir earlier this week by unilaterally changing their terms of service in a way lots of people didn’t like. On Wednesday they bowed to the pressure

There has been some consternation in the press and blogosphere about recent changes to Facebook’s terms of use.
The crux of the issue is that Facebook, though its terms of use, wrests from you control over the use of any content that you post. Facebook also claims license over any third-party content posted to the site [...]

I got ambushed at Lug Radio Live by Craig Smith of O’ReillyGMT and managed to mumble something like “copyright term extension, bad. Public domain, good” into his video camera…

Open Rights Group – Copyright Extension from oreillygmt on Vimeo.
Like an idiot, I managed to get our own URL wrong, so here are those links again in [...]