2012/13 : the video!

It's become a Pangloss tradition at the start of the new academic yesr to find a new video i can use to scare the students. THis year's conveniently just arrived courtesy of @niccuzor - thanks Nic!

The Internet A Decade Later

This is the most stunning infographic I have seen in some time on the changes the Internet has wrought over a decade : The Internet A Decade Later

I may use this to kick off the newly revamped E-Commerce module this autumn :-)

Thanks to BestEducated for putting this out under CC license!

Why We Shouldn'T Date Robots

OK I'll stop about the robots after this, promise, but I can't resist this one someone's sent me.

Futurama - Don't date robots from John Pope on Vimeo.

Hitler's response to the EC proposing mandatory ISP blocking of porn sites

Ok, actually no Hitler at all, but a usefully cynical video:-)

Hitler reacts to the Hitler parodies being removed from YouTube

Yes I know this is last week's news, but I'm pleasantly surprised to find this hilarious commentary on take down vs fair use is still available (though for how much longer?) (And given all the swearing, can I get away with showing it to the students??)



Of course, You Tube appears to have responded to Hitler's plaint: by providing a "put back, it's fair use honest guv" button. However note this only applies where take down has been automated by You Tube's Content ID system: so it wouldn't apply to the video above.. However, it's a step in the right direction (even if it has, say YT, been available since 2007, only no one noticed! ) so hurrah, say we all (even though I like cat videos too..)

There is of course currently no copyright exemption for parody in the UK (see current Gowers consultation, paras 16ff, indicating no prospect of change on this) - so if a video is streamed/watched in the UK, having been uploaded in the US, taken down via Content ID (or via overt notification), but then put back for fair use in US - quid iuris? or more accurately, what of You Tube and their claim to be exempt from liability under art 14 of the E Commerce Directive? have they received "notice"?? arguably yes, via their automated system or otherwise and yet they are still publishing a copyright infringing item. Can Google UK then block the video even though it remains available on the US site? and can the automation software deal with this? Google has, I'm sure, thought of this. Individual copyrights being inherently territorial, we are in deep waters for Pangloss. Comments welcome!

Hitler Discovers Cloud Computing Has Its Flaws

This has got to be one of the most abstruse Downfall tributes yet dubbed!!

The Google Toilet

This is getting a lot of pass-round in ye olde blogosphere. As with some of the vids I post here about filesharing, it makes some good points evocatively but I do not endorse the overall conclusion for one simple (or maybe not so simple) reason; even if you effectively feel you have to use Google (and there are rivals, especially in the non search categories of services) you can delete your Google cookies. But - another fun one to show students!

Oh Lily, Don't be Silly

(via Boing Boing) This open letter to Lily Allen, set to the tune if one of her own songs is rather endearing. I don't agree with this all-out anti all music IP stance, but I can imagine this being fun to kick start a debate with my students in a few weeks time, as it's surprisingly well argued..



ps I like Lily Allen's work too and own actual copies of both her CDs to date..

V for Videos

Pangloss is teaching Internet law to undergrads for the first time in a while this academic year coming and was idly wondering if she could spend the first lecture showing videos with which to seduce the suckers , sorry, encourage the freshers to understand how exciting IT law is:-)

These are first thoughts for the curriculum - would anyone else like to suggest their own favourites? In particular, it's not hard to find fun videos on file sharing, privacy and social networking sites (indeed web 2.0 in general) - but I could do with help on less obvious stuff like e-contracting, e-commerce or other aspects of IP??

here's my starting favourites!

Web 2.0

The machine is us - Web 2.0 changes everything

"FriendFace" (IT Crowd) - web 2.0 - social networks and privacy

The Facebook Song

Wikipedia, editing the umlaut - web 2.0 and distributed editing

What is web 2.0? an educationalperspective - intro to web 2.0

Privacy

Big Brother State - privacy & surveillance

The Last Enemy extract - life as an un person in an ID card world

ACLU pizza delivery - private/public data collection and privacy

IP

4chords (Axis of Awesome) - creativity, mash ups, copyright, parody

Filesharing RIAA parody ad (IT Crowd) - filesharing and P2P

3 minute medley on the music wars(from TED)

Content and tubes

The Internet is For Porn - self explanatory

Net Neutrality, Lessig-style - infrastructure

Death 2.0

Thomas Crampton, an Asia-based journalist and blogger, has posted a video he made after I gave a paper in Hong Kong in June 2009 at Peter Yu's Digital Converges Conference, on succession to digital assets , including social network profiles and emails etc, here.



There's also a write up to go with it here.

I'll be giving an updated version of this at GiKii in Amsterdam in September :-)

Something topical!

Batman or Bush?

Random American citizens try to tell who said it: Batman or Bush

Hey I'm sure it says at least enough about images of regulation to be a Law and Society paper