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Websites will be legally obliged to provide victims with the identity of people who post abusive and defamatory online messages about them under plans by the [UK] Government.
Major reforms of the libel laws will also see internet service providers (ISPs) given greater protection from being sued if they help to identify so-called trolls.
Would-be claimants will have to show they have suffered serious harm to their reputations, or are likely to do so, before they can take a defamation case forward.
Websites Will Be Forced To Identify Trolls (Sky)
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The Irish Times brings the love this morning to Digital Hub-based Newswhip.ie, (they provide the ‘what’s trending’ widget thing to your right).
And founder Paul Quigley and programming whiz Andrew Mullaney are plotting world domination.
And rather than cannibalising the content created by paid journalists, NewsWhip always links out to the site of the story’s creator. “The internet has its own morality. If a story is doing well, we want to send people to that story and send traffic to that site.”
The company’s Spike product has been developed with newsrooms in mind, says Quigley.
“If we can tell a publisher like MSNBC or the Huffington Post which of their stories is the most social, they can then push that story into a stream perhaps for mobile apps or into widgets that suggest news stories for their readers.”
He says NewsWhip is also talking to wire services such as Reuters and Associated Press about giving them intelligence on their most social stories.
Oh. That’s why they haven’t been returning our faxes.
Tracking The News To Headline Their Own Internet Success Story (Joanna Hunt, Irish Times)
Or at least have your voice heard.
Colin Murphy writes:
Independent TDs Catherine Murphy and Stephen Donnelly (above) this morning launched an online crowd-sourcing process as part of their response to the Copyright Review Committee, which is tasked with overhauling Ireland’s copyright regime.
Murphy and Donnelly have prepared their draft report in collaboration with a group of industry experts: Digital Rights Ireland director Antoin O Lachtnain, Boards.ie co-founder Tom Murphy, and internet law expert and solicitor Simon McGarr.
The draft version of that report has been published online at a dedicated site: Copyrightreform.ie. Using an innovative application called Digress.it, they are seeking feedback from the public.
Digress.it allows people to comment on individual sections of the submission. People will also be able to add their signature to it.
They are also making the submission available in editable format to the public under the Irish Creative Commons Attribution licence. This means that anybody can take any part of the submission with which they agree and use that as the basis of their own submission to the Copyright Review Committee.
In other words, the submission will be a model of a crowd-sourced and open-source policy document, setting an example for how the policy process can be made collaborative and can encourage participation, in the public interest
“Copyright exists to protect intellectual property – but a healthy copyright regime also fosters innovation and serves the public interest,” said Stephen Donnelly. “We believe the current law is imbalanced. Particularly following the Statutory Instrument brought in without consultation by Sean Sherlock earlier this year, there are a lot of concerns amongst the tech community and start-up sector that our copyright regime could be inhibiting innovation. Our submission, I hope, will help rebalance that,”
Their draft recommendations are as follows.
The Government should:
1. Ensure the right of free speech is a central element of the new copyright regime, including in the areas of parody and satire;
2. Legalise legitimate forms of copying by introducing an explicit and broadly defined “Fair Use” policy;
3. Ensure the extent of copyright ownership is balanced against the public good;
4. Design a system which is clear to all parties, including end users;
5. Design an enforcement mechanism which is easy to understand, transparent and accessible to all parties;
6. Target penalties at those who infringe on copyright rather than on third parties such as intermediaries;
7. Future-proof the new regime by basing it on applicable principles rather than rules relevant to today’s technology only;
8. Make it easy for end-users to identify and engage with owners of copyright material.
The Copyright Review Committee was established in May 2011 by the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to examine current copyright legislation and identify areas where reforms might be made. The Committee this week announced a limited extension of time for submissions (closing date was May 31) until June 29 in limited circumstances.
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Techovate 2012?
A two-day (March 21 and 22) event at the fancy new Wexford Opera House bringing “Silicon Valley to the South-East” organised by the not-for-profit job creation organisation, Innovation Wexford and the region’s entrepreneur ‘alliance’, Fuse.
Sez they:
The conference concept came about after a group of entrepreneurs travelled to Silicon Valley and knocked on doors to forge links with the diaspora in Northern California to help develop growth within the Irish SME sector.
Speakers include Coder Dojo co-founder Bill Liao and Fred Karlsson, who started Irish internet godzilla, DoneDeal.ie
It’s the future, dude.
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Free internet service is likely to be available in Dublin’s public spaces this summer following a positive assessment of the scheme by city manager John Tierney. Dublin City Council will now vote on the proposal at its monthly meeting next Monday night.
Yay.