All posts by Joanne Gray
why the world’s biggest online library is in court over digital book lending
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Earlier this month, the Internet Archive asked a US court to end a lawsuit filed against it by four large book publishers. The Internet Archive is a not-for-profit organisation founded in 1996 that lends digital copies of books,…
even in a state-managed economy, digital companies grow too powerful
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. China’s digital economy has advanced rapidly over the past two decades, with services, communications and commerce moving online. The Chinese government has generally encouraged its citizens to accept digital technologies in all aspects of daily life. Today China…