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Iran – Open letter to the eight candidates in the Islamic Republic’s 11th presidential election22 May 2013

Reporters Without Borders has written an open letter to the eight approved candidates in the Islamic Republic of Iran's 11th presidential election, requesting that they publicly commit themselves to support freedom of information. The list of eight approved candidates published yesterday by the Guardian Council – whose members are directly chosen and appointed by Supreme ...

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Twitter Launches Innovator’s Patent Agreement

With patent trolls and patent wars creating a massive drag on innovation, a number of companies have investigated ways to navigate the patent system while still promoting openness and competition. Twitter has been ...0 comments
Global Policy Weekly – May 21, 2013

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Justice Department’s Overreaching on Leaks Threatens Freedom of the Press

A week after the Department of Justice notified the Associated Press that it had secretly seized records for more than 20 phone lines in a leak investigation, The Washington Post uncovered an overlooked search ...0 comments
Afghanistan – Radio station technician and host murdered in Kapisa Valley

Reporters Without Borders is saddened to learn that the body of Mohammad Hassin Hashemi, a 30-year-old employee of local radio Nadjhrab in the northeastern Kapisa Valley, was found near his home yesterday, 18 days after ...0 comments
Uganda – Police raids on two Kampala newspapers

Reporters Without Borders is appalled by raids, on Monday (May 20), by police on two Kampala-based newspapers, the forced closure of their printing presses and the closure of two radio stations. The raids were carried ...0 comments

RIAA Makes Drastic Employee Cuts as Revenue Plummets

22 May 2013

New tax records reveal that the RIAA has made heavy employee cuts after revenue dropped to a new low. Over the past two years the ...
Judge who was Facebook friends with victim’s father did not have to recuse himself

22 May 2013

Judge sent defendant to prison for assaulting defendant’s girlfriend. Defendant appealed his sentence claiming, among other things, that the judge was not impartial, given that ...
Open-Source 3D Printing and Copyright Reform: It’s Time to Revisit Personal Use Copying

22 May 2013

Last week, I attended MSU’s Fifth Annual Conference on Innovation and Communications Law, where I saw a wonderful presentation by Joshua Pearce, an engineering and ...
Pirate Bay User Downloads Visualized in Real-Time Art Installation

21 May 2013

The file-sharing activities of BitTorrent users have become the input mechanism powering an art installation currently underway in Canada. The Pirate Cinema, a control room ...
uTorrent Serves Over 5 Billion Ads Per Month

21 May 2013

uTorrent parent company BitTorrent Inc. reports that the new advertising option in the popular BitTorrent client generates billions of ad impressions per month. Although users ...