Cory DoctorowToday's threads (a thread)
Inside: A media literacy handbook for Israel-Gaza; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/28/fog-o-war/
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Tuesday (Oct 31) at 10hPT, @internetarchive is livestreaming my presentation on my recent book, *The Internet Con*:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-the-internet-con-tickets-730939137637
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A media literacy handbook for Israel-Gaza: A new "breaking news consumer handbook" from On The Media.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111313886080966051
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Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Media explainers are a cheap way to become an instant expert on everything from billionaire submarine excursions to hellaciously complex geopolitical conflicts, but @[email protected]'s "#BreakingNewsConsumersHandbooks" are explainers that help you understand *other* explainers: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/breaking-news-consumers-handbook-israel-and-gaza-edition-on-the-media -- If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/28/fog-o-war/#breaking-news 1/
Hey look at this
* Comments on the September 6, 2023 Draft of a #WIPO #BroadcastingTreaty, the Definitions, Scope of Application, National Treatment and Formalities https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/research/110/
* Octostudio https://octostudio.org/en/
* #Nigeria: the best #copyright law in the world? https://www.eifl.net/blogs/nigeria-best-copyright-law-world (h/t Corynne McSherry)
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Comments on the September 6, 2023 Draft of a WIPO Broadcasting Treaty, the Definitions, Scope of Application, National Treatment and Formalities
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is evaluating a proposal for a new treaty that provides rights to broadcasting organizations. The negotiations began in 1997 and are currently taking place in the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR). On September 6, 2023, the WIPO Secretariat published a revised draft text prepared by the SCCR Chair, SCCR Vice-Chairs and facilitators. This article looks at certain elements of the draft concerning the definitions, scope of application, national treatment and formalities. Objections to the text focus on several draft definitions and the scope of application on the grounds that (1) very broad categories of information transmissions are defined as broadcasting and broadcast programmes, including information not disseminated through traditional radio or television mediums, and (2) that point-to-point transmissions, as opposed to point-to-multipoint transmissions, are inappropriately considered broadcasting. The draft text clearly extends the broadcaster right to transmissions of works in the public domain, licensed under Creative Commons or similar licenses, or even works infringed by the broadcaster. The draft treaty text Article on National Treatment includes a dangerous upward ratchet on broadcaster’s rights, particularly as regards conflicts between the rights of authors, performers and audiences, on the one hand, and broadcasting organizations on the other. The conditions on formalities are unnecessarily restrictive. Alternatives are proposed for some sections of the draft text to narrow the types of transmissions and activities covered by the treaty. This comment does not discuss the default rights or limitations and exceptions to those rights, a topic that will be addressed in a subsequent paper.
#20yrsago My notes from #Decentralized Economic Systems and Monetary Evolution https://craphound.com/fom2003-decentralizedeconomicsystems.txt
#20yrsago Fox threatens to sue Fox over Simpsons https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/oct/29/tvnews.internationalnews
#20yrsago Extended #iCal rant from a #timezone warrior https://memex.craphound.com/2003/10/30/extended-ical-rant-from-a-timezone-warrior/
#15yrsago Headlong: laser-fine YA novel about kids’ friendships and escaping destiny from #KatheKoja https://memex.craphound.com/2008/10/30/headlong-laser-fine-ya-novel-about-kids-friendships-and-escaping-destiny-from-kathe-koja/
#15yrsago Bat-Manga: the lost Japanese #Batman comics of 1966 https://memex.craphound.com/2008/10/29/bat-manga-the-lost-japanese-batman-comics-of-1966/
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#10yrsago Giving no-strings-attached money to the world’s poorest produces remarkably good results https://www.economist.com/international/2013/12/12/pennies-from-heaven
#10yrsago Spanish PM summons US ambassador to explain #NSA mass-surveillance of Spaniards https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/28/spain-summons-us-ambassador-nsa-calls,/a>
#10yrsago #Statistics Done Wrong: a guide to spotting and avoiding stats errors https://www.statisticsdonewrong.com
#10yrsago #DavidCameron threatens injunction against the Guardian to stop further #Snowden leak publications https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/28/david-cameron-nsa-threat-newspapers-guardian-snowden
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#5yrsago Consumer Reports finds that #DLink’s home camera sends unencrypted video without unique passwords https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics-computers/privacy/d-link-camera-poses-data-security-risk-consumer-reports-finds-a8814384448/
#5yrsago Is this the full list of US cities that have bought or considered #Predpol’s predictive policing services? https://memex.craphound.com/2018/10/30/is-this-the-full-list-of-us-cities-that-have-bought-or-considered-predpols-predictive-policing-services/
#5yrsago Trump #FCC official publicly lying about censorship on #MunicipalBroadband https://www.vice.com/en/article/bj49j8/fcc-falsely-claims-community-broadband-an-ominous-threat-to-the-first-amendment
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#5yrsago #BramStoker’s reference materials for #Dracula discovered at the London Library https://www.londonlibrary.co.uk/dracula
#1yrago #Adobe steals your color https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/28/fade-to-black/#trust-the-process
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Friday's threads: A taxonomy of corporate bullshit; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111307669281992125
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Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Today's threads (a thread) Inside: A taxonomy of corporate bullshit; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/27/six-sells/ #Pluralistic 1/
My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:
http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org
Signed copies available from Book Soup:
https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245
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My latest novel is Red Team Blues, available wherever books are sold!
Signed copies at Dark Delicacies (US):
and Forbidden Planet (UK):
https://forbiddenplanet.com/385004-red-team-blues-signed-edition-hardcover/
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
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Upcoming appearances:
* The Internet Con at the @internetarchive (virtual), Oct 31
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-the-internet-con-tickets-730939137637
* @hackaday Supercon, Nov 4 (#Pasadena)
https://hackaday.io/superconference/
* #CBCIDEAS, Nov 16 (#Stratford, ON)
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cbc-ideas-visionaries-in-conversation-tickets-729692809837
* Inspiring the Next Generation, Nov 16 (#Stratford, ON)
https://www.provocation.ca/upcoming-2023-events-stratford
* Generation of Lost Causes (#Toronto, Nov 22)
https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEVT495758&R=EVT495758
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* Who Is Watching Big Tech? (#Toronto, Nov 27)
https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEVT496408&R=EVT496408
* The Lost Cause at #TheStrand (#NYC), Nov 29
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-the-lost-cause-tickets-734958008187
* The Lost Cause at #FlyleafBooks (#ChapelHill), Dec 7
https://www.flyleafbooks.com/doctorow-2023
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Recent appearances:
* A Drink with Cory Doctorow (#TheIdler)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAnnk3vef00
* Equity Mates Investing podcast
https://open.spotify.com/show/2ZzAxuxFmQ1U78pL3RMxns
* Economics and Other Science Fictions (#EverydayAnarchism)
https://www.everydayanarchism.com/103-debt-discussion-2-economics-and-other-science-fictions-with-cory-doctorow/
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The Internet Con of Big Tech | A Drink with Cory Doctorow
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