We Are All Charlie: Freedom Of Speech Becomes A Global Discussion

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We Are All Charlie: Freedom Of Speech Becomes A Global Discussion

It's been fascinating to watch an institution as uniquely American as free speech take on such global heft over the last few months, particularly in the wake of the terrorist assault on French magazine Charlie Hebdo last week. When the Pope - the leader of an institution not known for its progressive stance on civil rights - publicly states that liberty of expression keeps the world out of danger, you know that it doesn't belong to us anymore.

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Sony’s No Good Terrible Very Bad Year Just Demonstrated The Need For Copyright Reform

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Sony’s No Good Terrible Very Bad Year Just Demonstrated The Need For Copyright Reform

It’s really really really really really really really hard to avoid infringing on copyrights, even if you’re a big multi-national corporation. Sony should have known better, but there is just so much content out there - visual, musical, and otherwise - and the internet has made it tremendously easy to access all of it instantly and without much forethought.

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