Dominic Young

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I’ve been around the news media and the internet since the beginning. I am interested in copyright as the basis for a thriving and balanced creative sector and society. Also interested in how the failure of copyright and other laws has led to terrible outcomes for the internet and everyone who uses it. I’ve done a lot of things around these issues.

Category: Open internet

  • The free flow of hypocrisy

    I’ve been hearing this phrase “the free flow of information” a lot lately. It’s been in the context of the “Publishers Right” and it is usually preceded by the phrase “will restrict”. The heart of the concern seems to be the idea that if permission is needed before digital publications can be exploited by others,…

  • Permission to know what is going on, sir?

    Google have released a new thingy, which allows people to save web content to their Google Drive (Google’s cloud-based storage thing), and do various things to it like add comments and annotations. Nothing much unusual about that, and there are lots of similar things out there like the formerly discussed bo.lt. Not to mention every…

  • The internet wants to be open, but some internets are more open than others

    Sergey Brin of Google had a discussion with The Guardian and talked about his vision for the future of the internet, alongside his concerns about threats to that vision. It’s an incredible insight into his (and Google’s) world view, which seems to be from a truly unique perspective. There is nobody else who sits astride…