[p2p-research] iceland

[Michel Bauwens]

well said, really good work you have done on this ...

any updates always welcome,

Michel

2010/2/15 Smári McCarthy <smari at fabfolk.com>

> I do not disagree that ownership models are a major problem, but to
> state that that is the only problem is to be alarmingly ignorant to the
> state of journalism in the world.
>
> Hundreds of journalists are on the run from oppressive governments,
> entire publications such as Malaysia Today and the Turks and Caicos
> Islands Journal have fled their homes and now publish from abroad. In
> the UK, at any given time, there are more than 300 secret gag orders
> limiting the freedom of expression of the press. US publications are
> having to spend millions of dollars to protect themselves against
> frivolous lawsuits...
>
> The freedom of expression has been under such an onslaught in recent
> decades, as it always has, and one very important thing to understand is
> that there has been no fundamental change in legislative protection of
> the freedom of expression since the adoption of the first amendment in
> 1791. Since then we've had two world wars, an industrial revolution, an
> information revolution, and any number of other technological and social
> advances that make it important to review what the freedom of expression
> means to us.
>
>
>  - Smári
>
>
> Michel Bauwens wrote:
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: ** <ciresearchers-request at vancouvercommunity.net
> > <mailto:ciresearchers-request at vancouvercommunity.net>>
> > Date: Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:56 AM
> > Subject: Digest for list ciresearchers
> > To: ciresearchers at vancouvercommunity.net
> > <mailto:ciresearchers at vancouvercommunity.net>
> >
> >
> > Table of content :
> >
> >  1. Re: [ciresearchers] FW: [NetBehaviour] Iceland aims to become an
> >    offshore haven forjournalists and leakers
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Content Research <contentissimo at chello.at
> > <mailto:contentissimo at chello.at>>
> > To: ciresearchers at vancouvercommunity.net
> > <mailto:ciresearchers at vancouvercommunity.net>, "michael gurstein"
> > <gurstein at gmail.com <mailto:gurstein at gmail.com>>,
> > <ciresearchers at vancouvercommunity.net
> > <mailto:ciresearchers at vancouvercommunity.net>>
> > Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 09:49:38 +0100
> > Subject: Re: [ciresearchers] FW: [NetBehaviour] Iceland aims to become
> > an offshore haven forjournalists and leakers
> > Dear colleagues,
> >
> > It seems that the Vikings do not have any clue
> > about the basics of publishing. I study them for 18 years.
> > The major challenge is not outsourcing and legislation
> > but the type of OWNERSHIP and closeness to the markets.
> >
> > Februar is Carneval time. and there is a huge difference between
> > tangible and intangible (e.g. financial) assets.
> >
> > There is one only country on the globe which succeeded to
> > became an off-shoring destination for one particular element
> > of the value chain of publishing.
> >
> > kind regards,
> >
> >
> > Gerahrd
> >
> > At 02:02 14.02.2010, michael gurstein wrote:
> >
> >
> >     -----Original Message-----
> >     From: netbehaviour-bounces at netbehaviour.org
> >     <mailto:netbehaviour-bounces at netbehaviour.org>
> >     [mailto:netbehaviour-bounces at netbehaviour.org
> >     <mailto:netbehaviour-bounces at netbehaviour.org>] On Behalf Of dave
> miller
> >     Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 7:36 PM
> >     To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
> >     Subject: [NetBehaviour] Iceland aims to become an offshore haven
> >     forjournalists and leakers
> >
> >
> >
> http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/02/iceland-aims-to-become-an-offshore-haven-fo
> >     r-journalists-and-leakers/
> >
> >     On Tuesday, the Icelandic parliament is expected to introduce a
> measure
> >     aimed at making the country an international center for investigative
> >     journalism publishing, by passing the strongest combination of source
> >     protection, freedom of speech, and libel-tourism prevention laws in
> the
> >     world.
> >
> >     Supporters of the proposal say the move would make Iceland an
> “offshore
> >     publishing center” for free speech, analogous to the offshore
> financial
> >     havens that allow corporations to hide capital from authorities.
> Could
> >     global news organizations with a home office in Reykjavík soon be as
> >     common
> >     as Delaware corporations or Cayman Islands assets?
> >     _______________________________________________
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> >     NetBehaviour at netbehaviour.org <mailto:NetBehaviour at netbehaviour.org>
> >     http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
> >
> >
> > End of digest for list ciresearchers - Sun Feb 14 20:56:28 2010
> >
> >
> >
> >
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