Copyright and Creation Authors Respond to Critics
The policy brief Copyright and Creation published recently by the LSE Media Policy Brief received coverage from diverse sources. In light of this coverage, the authors Bart Cammaerts, Bingchun Meng and...
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Internet Governance Series: Breaking the Internet
Viewed from the United States, attempts by Brazil and others to change the governance arrangements of the internet look like they could seriously undermine both a free and interconnected internet, as...
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Internet Governance Series: Internet Governance is Broken – How will it be...
According to Professor Chris Marsden, the recent developments in internet governance signal that a historical watershed has been reached which could see control of crucial internet resources and...
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Internet Governance Series: Bali Kicks Off, but What about the Elephant of...
With the Internet Governance Forum kicking off in Bali, LSE Alumna Alexandra Kulikova took a close look at the programme and the participants. She explains why she is not optimistic about the IGF being...
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Internet Governance Series: First Report from Bali – the Limits of...
The official sessions of the 2013 Internet Governance forum are just getting started in Bali, but LSE Media Policy Project’s own contributor, Alison Powell, has been attending the preparatory events....
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Internet Governance Series:The IGF – the Least Worst Governance Option for...
According to habitués, you can’t really make any claims about the IGF until you have attended at least three of them. Since I’ve only been to two, I apparently can’t really comment. However I also met...
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Internet Governance Series: The Road from Bali to Rio… to Dystopia?
The UN’s Internet Governance Forum ended on 25 October. Following on from his initial report from the event, University of Sussex’s Chris Marsden‘s reflects on the Forum and sounds a note of cautious...
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New Research: Media, the Internet, and Security Post-Snowden
PEN American Center’s report this week, “Chilling Effects” shows that growing surveillance has driven some American writers to censor their work. The findings from the survey of over 500 PEN writers,...
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Unified Field: The ‘Splinternet’
Brazil’s proposal to require companies to host Brazilian user data in-country has spurred discussions on whether local data storage is effective and if it would fragment the internet. Wendy Grossman,...
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Part 1: The Topsy–Turvy World of Newspaper Regulation and Government Spies
Today marks the first anniversary of the publication of the Leveson Inquiry’s report. Since then, in addition to maneuvering over a replacement for the PCC, we have seen revelations of government...
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EU Data Retention Directive Breaches Fundamental Rights, Says Advocate General
Following an important development in the two cases against the EU’s Data Retention Directive, Open Rights Group’s (ORG) Peter Bradwell explains the cases and the crucial Advocate General’s opinion...
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ATVOD Conference Shows Little Consensus on Protection from Porn
The Authority for Video on Demand (ATVOD) held a conference on 12 December on “protecting children from online porn”. LSE’s Benjamin De La Pava was there and reflects on the discussion arguing that...
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U.S. Court Rules NSA Bulk Data Collection Unconstitutional
Rutgers University Law Professor and LSE Visiting Fellow Ellen Goodman explains the landmark decision against NSA surveillance recently made in the US, pointing out the importance of scale and changes...
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Farewell to a Year of Friction & Happy Holiday Wishes to All
With best wishes for the new year from Damian Tambini and Sally Broughton Micova and the rest of the LSE Media Policy Project team. The past year has been a busy one for the LSE Media Policy...
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Europe can Learn from US How Not to do Net Neutrality
University of Sussex’s Chris Marsden looks at the possible European repercussions of the recent court decision on net neutrality in the US. He argues that while there may be more support in Europe for...
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Internet Income? IRS Decides Bitcoins are Taxable Property, not Money
With the increasing use of virtual currencies such as bitcoin, tax officials have started paying attention. Privacy and virtual identity specialist Niels Vandezande of the Interdisciplinary Centre for...
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NETmundial Closes With Thorny Issues Left Unaddressed
There were high expectations of the NETmundial global multistakeholder meeting on internet governance that just wrapped up on 24 April in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Sarah Myers, a Doctoral Student at the...
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European Court Rules against Google, in Favour of Right to be Forgotten
The EU’s Court of Justice has ruled against Google in a case in which a Spanish citizen, backed by his national data protection authority, wanted the company to remove search links to an old local...
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Google SpainCase: ECJ has Straightjacketed the Librarian
With another reaction to yesterday ruling by the EU’s Court of Justice that a Spanish citizen did have the right to ask Google to erase links to information about him, Peter Noorlander, CEO of the...
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The Future of the Internet is at a Crossroads
The fifth annual European Summit on the Future Internet is coming up on 12& 13 June bringing together policymakers, industry representatives and scholars. Joao Schwarz da Silva of this year’s host,...
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