why surveillance matters
As a follow-up to Nabiha’s great post on terrorism and open access: As Nabiha said, our interest in terrorism-related issues has to do with the barriers the government places to access. Our interest in surveillance speaks more generally to the democratic conditions necessary for newsgathering. Newsgatherers cannot properly gather news if they know that they’re [...]
Fair Use, the DMCA, and YouTube
The ISP is co-sponsoring a talk tomorrow (October 14) by Michael Fricklas, the General Counsel and Executive Vice President of Viacom. The talk–entitled “Copyrights, Markets, and Free Speech: Should We Be Free Not to Be Free?”–will take place during Elizabeth Stark’s course on law and technology, and will deal with Viacom’s arguments in its $1 [...]
what we do and why terrorism matters
Our projects include a lot of national security-oriented topics, including Guantanamo, fusion centers, and the like. One might wonder — hell, we’ve wondered — how this intersects with our core mission to support newsgatherers. In an Information Society Project Ideas Lunch last week, Jack Balkin hit the nail on the head: the current onslaught of [...]
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