Techdirt Podcast Episode 236: Talkin' Jomboy, New Media & Copyright

from the three-strikes dept

Tue, Jan 28th 2020 01:30pm - Leigh Beadon

If you’re a baseball fan, you’ve probably heard of Jomboy (aka Jim O’Brien) by now. And if you’re not, you still might have — because he’s been getting attention by building a successful new media network online with his baseball explainer videos. And of course, that includes facing some familiar copyright and ContentID obstacles along the way. This week, Jomboy himself joins us on the podcast to discuss the experience, the challenges, and yes, the baseball.

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Filed Under: baseball, copyright, jomboy, new media, podcast, sports
Companies: mlb

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Techdirt Podcast Episode 235: The CES 2020 Post-Mortem

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from the that-time-of-year dept

Tue, Jan 21st 2020 01:30pm - Leigh Beadon

Once again, it’s time for the CES post-mortem! Unlike past years, Mike didn’t make it to the 2020 show, but our regular guest and unrivaled CES veteran Rob Pegoraro is back with all the important details from the ground. Listen in to find out what new consumer tech, both expected and unexpected, the industry is pushing this year.

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Filed Under: ces, podcast, rob pegoraro, technology

Techdirt Podcast Episode 234: Mike Godwin Defends Selling .ORG

Say That Again

from the pros-and-cons dept

Wed, Jan 15th 2020 12:00pm - Leigh Beadon

We’re back! It’s been a lull over the holidays and we’ve gone a while without new podcast episodes, but now we’ve got several lined up for the coming weeks — and today we kick things off with a very interesting discussion. Many of you probably know about the controversy and concern over the Internet Society’s sale of the .ORG domain registry to a private equity firm, but one prominent defender of the deal is ISOC trustee Mike Godwin, and today he joins us to explain his reasoning and try to convince Mike that the sale is a good idea.

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Filed Under: .org, icann, internet society, isoc, mike godwin, podcast

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Techdirt Podcast Episode 233: Your Secret Consumer Score

(Mis)Uses of Technology

from the shhhh dept

Tue, Dec 3rd 2019 01:30pm - Leigh Beadon

When Kashmir Hill last joined us on the podcast, it was to discuss her experiment with cutting big tech companies out of her life. This week she’s back to discuss something even harder to escape, and subject of her recent article in the New York Times: the low-profile companies that track consumers and assign them secret scores, and the disturbing amount of power they wield.

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Filed Under: kashmir hill, podcast, privacy, surveillance

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Techdirt Podcast Episode 232: Copying Is Not Theft

from the it-just-isn't dept

Tue, Nov 12th 2019 01:30pm - Leigh Beadon

We’ve said it before (and even put it on a t-shirt) and we’ll say it again: copying is not theft, and intellectual “property” is anything but. In September, the Niskanen Center published an excellent paper exploring this issue and explaining why IP is a misnomer — and this week we’ve got one of the authors of that paper, Daniel Takash, to discuss in more detail why property is simply the wrong lens for looking at copyrights and patents.

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Filed Under: copying, copyright, daniel takash, intellectual property, patents, podcast

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Techdirt Podcast Episode 231: Working Futures, Part Two

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from the spec-fic dept

Tue, Nov 5th 2019 01:40pm - Leigh Beadon

A few weeks ago, we sat down with some of the authors from Working Futures, our new anthology of short stories about the future of work (pick up your copy from Amazon in ebook or paperback format!) Today we’re back with three new guests whose stories are featured in the collection: Andrew Dana Hudson, N. R. M. Roshak, and Randy Lubin (who helped design the scenario-planning game we used to spawn ideas for many of the stories). We hope you enjoy this second instalment in our discussion all about Working Futures and the intriguing, challenging stories therein.

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Filed Under: fiction, podcast, sci-fi, work, working futures

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Techdirt Podcast Episode 230: Backpage v. The Feds

Legal Issues

from the worse-than-we-thought dept

Tue, Oct 22nd 2019 01:30pm - Leigh Beadon

We’ve written a lot about Backpage ever since it replaced Craigslist as the favorite target of grandstanding prosecutors, and especially since it was used to help pass FOSTA. Now history’s being rewritten to claim FOSTA took Backpage down, despite that not being the order in which things happened. The biggest issue, though, is that taking down these sites makes it harder to fight sex trafficking — and the feds know it. This week, we’re joined by Reason’s Elizabeth Nolan Brown to discuss documents she recently obtained in which federal investigators repeatedly acknowledge that Backpage helped them do their job, and wasn’t run by a bunch of criminals.

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Filed Under: evidence, intermediary liability, section 230
Companies: backpage

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Techdirt Podcast Episode 229: Pirate Shaming Lists Don't Work

from the among-many-problems dept

Tue, Oct 15th 2019 01:30pm - Leigh Beadon

A couple of months ago, we were surprised when a WIPO employee showed up in our comments to defend the organization’s new database of supposedly infringing sites against our many criticisms. In that post, we highlighted a Twitter thread from lawyer Rick Shera — who represented Mega — and this week, Shera joins us on the podcast to further discuss the inefficacy and negative impact of these kinds of pirate shaming lists.

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Filed Under: brip, copyright, podcast, rick shera, wipo
Companies: mega

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Techdirt Podcast Episode 228: Working Futures

Culture

from the meet-the-authors dept

Tue, Oct 8th 2019 01:30pm - Leigh Beadon

As we hope you know by now, last week we released Working Futures, an anthology of short stories about the future of work in our world of rapidly advancing technology, inspired by settings we developed with a specially-designed scenario planning exercise (pick up your copy from Amazon in ebook or paperback format!) For this week’s special episode of the podcast, we’ve brought in three of the authors whose stories are featured in the book— Katharine Dow, Christopher Hooton, and James Yu — to talk about the process of developing future scenarios and, of course, about their stories.

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Filed Under: future of work, working futures

Techdirt Podcast Episode 227: Rep. Mark Takano On Tech In Congress

Politics

from the teaching-lawmakers dept

Tue, Oct 1st 2019 01:30pm - Leigh Beadon

With all the misconceptions, political projects, and flat-out panics about tech in Congress these days, it sometimes feels like any positive legislative progress regarding technology is impossible. But once in a while you find a lawmaker who is out there pushing smart bills about tech, such as one that aims to help solve this whole mess by restoring and redesigning the Office of Technology Assessment to help educate Congress in the digital age. This week, we’re joined by Rep. Mark Takano to discuss his plans to bring tech literacy back to Congress.

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Filed Under: evidence, mark takano, ota, source code

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