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Same Technology, Different Freedoms: How U.S. Copyright Law Can Restrict Mobile Devices

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  • James Losey
November 16, 2012

This piece has been cross-posted from Global Voices Advocacy

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Giving Civil Society a Voice in Internet Governance

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  • James Losey
May 31, 2012
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India may be the world’s most populous democracy, but its online territory is rapidly becoming less democratic. Last week, for example, a Madras High Court ordered Internet service providers to block a number of websites. While courts in other countries, including the Netherlands and the UK, have ordered file sharing website The Pirate Bay to be blocked, India’s growing restricted list goes much further, including video sharing websites Vimeo and Dailymotion as well as the website Pastebin, which is used to share links, stories or code.

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Like Democracies, Internet Freedom Cannot Be Taken For Granted

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  • James Losey
December 22, 2011

If there had been any doubt before, events over the past year have underscored just how important the Internet has become for activists fighting for human rights and democracy around the world. However, 2011 also highlighted how censorship, surveillance, and the shutdown of Internet and wireless services can impact digital activism. Shutdowns bookedended the year with Egypt in January to Kazakhstan in December.

National Broadband Maps Must Be in Vogue, Actual Speeds Are Not

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  • James Losey
July 7, 2011
Screenshot of UK Fixed Broadband Map

This week Ofcom, the independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industry, launched a Fixed Broadband Map. The map displays a 1-5 ranking for 5 different metrics: overall performance, average broadband take up, percentage of users receiving less than 2 Megabits per second (Mbps), super-fast broadband (speeds over 24 Mbps) availability and average modem sync speed.

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An Update on International Universal Broadband Goals

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  • James Losey
March 25, 2011

Last week marked the first anniversary of the National Broadband Plan’s release. The press surrounding the Planniversary included plenty of criticisms that the plan is moving too slow, even at dial-up speed.

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Comparing Wireline and Wireless Broadband Costs Over Two Years

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  • James Losey
February 25, 2011
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Last week, coinciding with the release of the National Broadband Map, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) also released the latest report in the Digital Nation series. Titled Expanding Internet Usage, the report provides updated data on broadband adoption in the United States by analyzing U.S. Census survey data from 54,000 households and 129,000 persons.

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Mobile Devices are Increasingly Locked Down and Controlled by the Carriers

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  • Dan Meredith
  • Josh King
  • Sascha Meinrath
  • James Losey
October 13, 2010

 

How Cell Phone “Customization” Undermines End-Users by Redefining Ownership

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"T-Mobile G2 with Google" Phone Contains Unexpected ‘Feature’ to Overwrite Users' Software

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  • Dan Meredith
  • Sascha Meinrath
  • Josh King
  • James Losey
October 5, 2010

Chip on Phone Overwrites User-Preferred Software -- Re-installs Original Firmware.

[October 13, 2010 UPDATE: OTI has released this follow-up analysis concerning the policy implications of mobile device lock down.]

Yesterday, some T-Mobile stores began selling its newest mobile device, the G2, an Android-based smart phone originally slated for an October 6 release while AT&T is slated to release it later in the year.

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Video Prison: Why Patents Might Threaten Free Online Video

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  • James Losey
  • Tom Glaisyer
  • Kara Hadge
  • Wendy Seltzer
July 2, 2010

By Wendy Seltzer, James Losey, Tom Glaisyer, and Kara Hadge

On June 20, 2009, nearly 150,000 people witnessed the death of 26-year-old Neda Agha-Soltan, but unlike the Iranians who passed her by in the street, they weren't bystanders to the post-election turmoil in Tehran that claimed her life. They were merely the first of over 600,000 who have since viewed a now-symbolic YouTube video that helped propel the opposition political movement forward in the following days of protest. The democratizing power of the Web lies in video like this one--not just because of its content, but because anyone with an Internet connection can contribute to a global dialogue.

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A Year Later, Philadelphia Awarded $6.4 Million

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  • James Losey
July 2, 2010

On June 23, 2009, seemingly another sunny day in Philadelphia, Sascha Meinrath and Dan Meredith, respectively Open Technology Initiative Director and Technologist, disembarked from Amtrak at the 30th Street Station.

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The Black Box of Broadcasting: The Case for Open Data in Public Broadcasting

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  • Tom Glaisyer
  • James Losey
April 12, 2010
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At her penultimate Impact Summit, Knight Media Policy Fellow Jessica Clark posed the question "How do you measure impact of the media you produce?" She brought together a round table of public broadcasters, media funders, and media policy analysts to discuss the question. 

Clark split impact into five parts: Reach, Relevance, Inclusion, Engagement, and Influence and her blog post on MediaShift outlines those categories and the challenges many media producers have to overcome as they move beyond an environment where metrics where they existed were scarce, expensive to acquire, and focused on Nielsen ratings points or share for television and for radio the average quarter hour or time spent listening. All are metrics valuable to advertisers. 
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