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Freedom of Speech Censorship in Australia Coming to an End?
The state of South Australia has snatched politicians’ promise that the highly disputed election law enacted on January 6 will be revoked. The recently introduced law stipulates that anyone publishing politically oriented comments online during election periods must declare their identity or risk the prospect of paying a stinging fine. Applied only to bloggers and commenters, not to official online newspapers or magazines, the law has a pronounced discriminatory character, which is condemned by persons constricted by its terms.
Continue reading »Warning: this unrealistic image has been Photoshopped
If there was a disclaimer on every piece of media that received a bit of digital “help,” our images here in the US would be nothing but disclaimers. In France, however, lawmakers are concerned about the effect that Photoshopping has on people’s body images. As a result, one such member of parliament, Valerie Boyer, has proposed a law that would require “enhanced” images to sport a warning, making it clear that viewers are not looking at an unretouched image.
Continue reading »USPTO ruling on "pod" sets up David v. Goliath scenario
Apple is no stranger to aggressively protecting its trademarks and other intellectual property, especially when it comes to its iconic iPod. But in trying to prevent a video projector designer from calling his device “Video Pod,” the company may have inadvertently cast itself as a corporate Goliath taking on an entrepreneurial David, as the United States Patent and Trademark Office has ruled that the dispute should be decided at trial . Daniel Kokin has spent the last nine years, off and on, working on a design for a video projector.
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