Peter Black's Freedom to Differ

Podcast on Ice TV Pty Ltd v Nine Network Australia Pty Ltd

Yesterday evening I had a chat with Ben Grubb from Tech Wired Australia about the High Court's decision Ice TV Pty Ltd v Nine Network Australia Pty Ltd.  Ben has posted a podcast of that conversation you can download here.  And see my previous posts on the decision here and here.

Podcast of The Tangled Web: Beyond an Internet Filter

On Tuesday night I had the pleasure of chairing a newmatilda.com public forum on the internet regulation debate in Australia:

newmatilda.com presents a series of public forums about the internet regulation debate in Australia.

The Federal Government's proposal to block internet sites with a mandatory filter has drawn overwhelming opposition from voices across politics and civil society. So what are the real questions for policy-makers?

These forums explore the ethical, social and political questions raised by government regulation of the internet. With the growing intersection between technology, politics and media, how do existing and proposed classification regimes measure up?

Is filtering inevitable? Or are there better ways to regulate the world wide web?

Chair:
Peter Black, QUT Faculty of Law

Speakers:
Senator Scott Ludlam, The Australian Greens
Irene Graham, libertus.net
Nic Suzor, Electronic Frontiers Australia

A podcast of the audio recording of this forum can be downloaded here:

New IP podcast

UCLA Professor Doug Lichtman has launched a new podcast, Intellectual Property Colloquium.  This is how he describes it:

The project is called the Intellectual Property Colloquium, and it is essentially an online audio program devoted to intellectual property topics. We aspire to be something like an NPR talk show, but focused on copyrights and patents, and aimed primarily at a legal audience. The programs are neither lectures nor debates. They are conversations, ideally thoughtful ones, with guests drawn from academia, the entertainment community, and the various technology industries.

Each program lasts one hour; is downloadable; and (the kicker) any lawyer who listens to our programs can earn (free) CLE credit in California, New York, and any state that accepts one of those through reciprocity. (We should soon be able to offer CLE in all the states, but for now the combination of California, New York, and reciprocity should cover most of our audience regardless.)

I host each program; and our first one, a lively conversation with Fred von Lohmann of the EFF, is up and ready to go. A schedule of up-coming shows is already posted on the site, as are a variety of subscription features that provide updates every time a new audio is available.

Subscribe to listen to the podcast here.

Blogging killed the radio star

Every few weeks over the past year or two I find myself giving a radio interview on some internet law related matter.  For example, on Sunday it was online privacy and Facebook for Breakfast with George and Paul on 2UE 954 and this afternoon it was about the YouTube bashing for Drive with Kelly Ann-Higgins on 612 ABC Brisbane.  However, probably the most fun I have had doing a radio interview was late last year when I was interviewed by Derryn Hinch on Melbourne's 3AW 693  about Facebook.  You can download and listen to that interview here.

Second Freedom to Differ Podcast

In this delayed second podcast, I discuss Australian politics 2.0, the Australian Blogging Conference, some sites to watch (Plaxo, Spock, Joost and JibJab), and the announcement by the Australian government that they will introduce ISP level internet filtering.

Download the second Freedom to Differ podcast here.

First Freedom to Differ Podcast

In my first podcast I discuss the intellectual property in a photograph of the Sydney Opera House (see here), review the new RealPlayer (see here), rave about Facebook (read Mashable's excellent post here) and take a look back over the past 12 months of blogging (see here). 

Download the first Freedom to Differ podcast here.