Post Tagged with: "internet video"

Internet Video Goes To the Movies

In recent years, much of the interest in online video has focused on its effects on mainstream or conventional television – the emergence of a "clip culture," where popular segments of television programs draw larger audiences on websites like YouTube than on conventional television. My weekly technology law column (Toronto Star version, homepage version) notes that the shift of conventional broadcast to the Internet is remarkable, but it misses important developments for longer form video.

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December 8, 2008 3 comments Columns

Broadcasting Community Surprisingly Calls For Internet Regulation

Appeared in the Toronto Star on April 2, 2007 as More Web Regulation Doesn't Make Any Sense The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has faced seemingly continuous criticism for years, however in May 1999 it released a decision that generated near-universal praise.  The New Media decision, which adopted a hands-off […]

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April 2, 2007 1 comment Columns Archive

We’re All On Candid Camera

My weekly Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, BBC version, homepage version) focuses on how Internet video, in combination with ubiquitous video cameras embedded in millions of cell phones, has dramatically increased the likelihood that someone, somewhere will capture video evidence of once-hidden events that can be made instantly available […]

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November 27, 2006 1 comment Columns

We’re All On Candid Camera

Appeared in the Toronto Star on November 27, 2006 as We're All On Candid Camera Appeared in the Ottawa Citizen on November 28, 2006 as You Might As Well Smile, We're All on Candid Camera Appeared in the BBC on November 28, 2006 as Private Life Exposed by Net Video  […]

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November 27, 2006 1 comment Columns Archive

The Mentos Video

My weekly Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, BBC version, homepage version) examines the enormous success of a video mixing Diet Coke and Mentos (which through a quirk of chemistry, sparks an immediate chemical reaction – a beverage geyser spurting several metres into the sky).   Released for free on […]

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July 17, 2006 Comments are Disabled Columns