How different might the Internet look five years from now – and what will our future look like when it comes to accessing and sharing knowledge and culture online? At OpenMedia, we think these answers should be crowdsourced. We believe the people who are most invested in the Internet –
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OpenMedia.ca: Crowdsourcing tool launched to create positive plan for a Fair Digital Future amid censorship proposals
citizen-drive-eblast-210×100.png Coordinated by OpenMedia, new citizen-fuelled vision will challenge outdated top-down approach to developing copyright policies October 25, 2013 – Global citizens and innovators are working together to shape a new crowd-sourced vision for 21st century copyright rules and a fair digital future. The move comes after over 100,000 people
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Top 5 ways lobbyists win and you lose with the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
Something very important happened this week. For the first time, Presidents and Prime Ministers of several countries met with industry lobbyists to discuss the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on the sidelines of the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Bali, Indonesia. Although U.S. President Obama suddenly announced he would not
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Over 100,000 tell TPP leaders to reject Internet censorship at Bali summit starting Monday
SayNo200x200_240913.png Online campaign goes viral, spurred on by citizen outrage at secretive and extreme Trans-Pacific Partnership proposals, says OpenMedia October 3, 2013 – Citizens across the trans-Pacific region are speaking up in huge numbers to tell their elected leaders to say no to Internet censorship at upcoming Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: What are they up to in Bali?
In less than a week nearly 100,000 people have signed on to our letter to Stephen Harper and other leaders telling them not to ram through an Internet censorship plan when they meet in Bali. But now the industry lobbyists behind the Internet censorship plan are ramping up the pressure
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Canadians call on Harper to say no to extreme U.S.-driven Internet censorship proposals at final TPP talks next week
September 26, 2013 – Led by citizen-backed OpenMedia.ca, Canadians are calling on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to make a firm commitment to reject extreme U.S.-driven Internet censorship proposals when he meets with other world leaders in Bali, Indonesia next week. The proposals are contained within leaked drafts of the Trans-Pacific
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Canadians call on Harper to say no to extreme U.S.-driven Internet censorship proposals at final TPP talks next week
OpenMedia_Logo.png Led by citizen-backed OpenMedia.ca, Canadians are speaking out against secretive U.S. plans to censor the Internet and restrict free expression online September 26, 2013 – Led by citizen-backed OpenMedia.ca, Canadians are calling on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to make a firm commitment to reject extreme U.S.-driven Internet censorship proposals
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: The Tyee: Will Big Telecom return to dealing with Canadian cell phone users "as blue whales deal with krill"?
This one made us smile – Big Telecom’s ad impact “blunted by the fact that they were delivered from high atop Loot ‘n Pillage Mountain, an Everest of gold dubloons plundered from helpless Canadian cell phone users by Bell, Rogers, and Telus.” Article by Steve Burgess for The Tyee: [Editor’s
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: OpenMedia.ca welcomes Official Opposition call for access to text of TPP agreement which threatens online expression
Image: FD_TPPShare_Library_130818.png News heading: Momentum rapidly building behind citizen-backed Our Fair Deal campaign for greater TPP transparency and an end to extreme Internet Censorship proposals August 28, 2013 – OpenMedia.ca is welcoming this morning’s call by NDP trade critic Don Davies for Canadian MPs to be given the same information
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Friday Night Hardware Hacking
Last night I fixed a Vista laptop (It wouldn’t finish booting into Windows normally because I’d installed another hard drive, and ran ClamAV which possibly changed a file it was depending on after I removed the other hard drive. I ran startup repair, and then the system restore option, and
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Stephen Beer argues that the UK’s Labour Party should take the lead in arguing for a financial transactions tax oriented toward reducing inequality: The banking sector is incorrigible. It cannot alone reform itself or repair its relationship with the rest of society.
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Thousands speak out to shape our Digital Future
What does your digital future look like? Thousands of citizens are speaking out right now to shape the future of our Internet. They’re taking action to help prevent radical new Internet censorship proposals that could drastically restrict how we share and collaborate online. The extreme proposals are contained within the
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Indie ISPs and pro-Internet lawyers take to court to defend Canadians’ right to privacy against a discredited US media firm
You may have heard the news that Canipre—a company that makes its money taking advantage of the Canadian copyright system—is currently working on behalf of U.S. media giant Voltage Pictures, to try to obtain private information about 1,100 Canadian Internet users it has accused of violating its copyright. Clearly it’s
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: OpenMedia.ca Sounds Alarm on Privacy Rights as court case could see Canadians’ private information handed to U.S. firm
Image by o5com on Flickr.jpg U.S.-style copyright trolling could clog Canadian courts if law not made clearer JUNE 25, 2013 – OpenMedia.ca is warning Canadians that their privacy rights could be seriously undermined as a result of a case currently being heard before Federal Court in Toronto. The case involves
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: FreshMedia’s RemixThis: A Copyright Cabaret – a pictorial look back
Well over 100 artists, musicians, journalists, and engaged citizens gathered in Vancouver’s Wise Hall on May 16th for Remix This: A Copyright Cabaret. The event was organized by FreshMedia with the aim of bringing together people from all walks of life to reimagine what copyright should look like in the
Continue readingArt Threat: Bank of Canada cries counterfeit over Duffy Buck cartoon
Editorial cartoonist Dan Murphy has created a parody of a Canadian bank note featuring maligned senator Mike Duffy — he of the fraudulent $90,000 in expense claims. The humourless Bank of Canada, however, demanded the cartoon be removed in an email sent from their “anti-counterfeiting compliance program.” The Bank argues
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Stop selling out our free expression online in TPP talks, OpenMedia.ca urges Trade Minister
stand against TPP.png Secretive, industry-driven copyright proposals could wreck Canada’s digital economy, restrict our open Internet, and undermine our fundamental rights May 28, 2013 – Led by Canadian Internet freedom group OpenMedia.ca, members of a diverse international coalition have written to Trade Ministers in several countries to demand a ‘Fair
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Canadian organizations join new coalition concerned with Internet censorship in controversial international agreement
stand against TPP.png As officials meet in Peru for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Canadian groups are helping launch an international “Fair Deal” coalition May 21, 2013 – Today, OpenMedia.ca and a coalition of organisations representing a diversity of interests have come together from around the world to ask for a fair
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Murray Dobbin contrasts the B.C. NDP’s recent election loss against the type of popular focus which helped Saskatchewan’s CCF to earn a twenty-year stay in office in the face of far more hysterical opposition: You can design a campaign that projects a
Continue readingArt Threat: Disney abandons efforts to trademark Day of the Dead
Thanks to a wave of online backlash, Disney is withdrawing its application to trademark the term Dia de los Muertos — otherwise known as the traditional Mexican Day of the Dead holiday. The trademark filing was done in advance of an upcoming animated film release by Disney-owned Pixar based on
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