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Don Foster on the Digital Economy Bill: carrot, pause and then stick
Yesterday Don Foster (Shadow Culture, Media and Sport Secretary) kindly gave over some time to talk about his views on the Digital Economy Bill and the line the party is taking. It’s a topic we’ve often covered on The Voice, particularly the question of the balance between carrot and stick in responding to internet piracy. [...]
Lib Dems move to clip Mandelson’s power over copyright
The Digital Economy Bill currently going through Parliament would give Peter Mandelson huge powers to rewrite the country’s copyright laws in future – and all without much in the way of Parliamentary scrutiny or checks and balances.
But Liberal Democrat peer Tim Clement-Jones has tabled an amendment to the Digital Economy Bill to delete the controversial Clause [...]
Liberal Democrats back campaign to free our postcodes
Welcome news from the blog of Lynne Featherstone (who, apart from being a LibDem MP, is also chair of the party’s Technology Advisory Board):
We need postcodes to be owned by the public – not sold to the public. Postcodes are the basic pre-requisite for allowing services to be developed that support democratic accountability.
It’s an important [...]
Should product placement be banned from TV shows?
Here’s Don Foster’s take on the subject:
In the current financial climate, we have to look at all revenue options including product placement.
The previous Secretary of State, Andy Burnham, was wrong to have ruled out the option of product placement.
With Google now having a larger advertising revenue than ITV, the commercial television companies need to fight [...]
