Marcelo Thompson

Forbes.com reports that Baidu, the leading search engine in China, is being sued by the Music Copyright Society of China and R2G for providing access to, and making profits from, pirated content. My colleague Wolf Richter had already blogged about the efforts from IFPI and the majors to boost copyright enforcement measures in the country. [...]

There will be an FCC hearing on Network Neutrality going on next Monday at the Berkman Center. Prof Benkler will be there. It will be interesting to learn Prof Benkler’s more detailed vision on the issue. In both an outstanding earlier piece and his The Wealth of Networks, Prof Benkler has almost fully embraced Joseph [...]

If you search for “atriz gorda” (fat actress) in the images section of Google Brazil, the search engine does not suggest any more that you also try Preta Gil. No clarifications so far in the Google Public Policy Blog.

Prof Zittrain asks me an intelligent question about my earlier post, which deserves to be brought to the forefront: JZ: Google refuses to return results when people enter in numbers structured like credit card numbers into its search box. Is this non-neutral behavior? If so, do you think it is wrong? MT: I think it [...]

Rumor has it that Google is being sued (again) in Brazil. This time the issue is less serious, though not necessarily less, say, “sturdy”. Preta Gil, a fairly famous Brazilian singer and actress who also comes to be the daughter of our very Minister of Culture (and Sound!), Gilberto Gil, is very upset that, when [...]