Note: This is a text I was asked to write, after IGF 2017, in Geneva. Not so surprisingly, it was never published by the organization that asked me for it . It was written around 12 January 2018. Target audience was young people. The Internet…
This is the day zero of my blog. In my mind, it will be a blog about Law and Digital Rights (mostly). It will have posts in English or in Portuguese, depending on the subject. I do love my language, but I also need to…
The USA has recently discovered that we have awful net neutrality practices here in Portugal. Wikipedia's Net Neutrality page in English is even illustrated by the offers of the Portuguese ISP MEO. However, the story being told in the US media is not exactly correct.
Um workshop dedicado à reforma europeia do direito de autor, os seus desafios, perigos e oportunidades, em cooperação com a EDRi, COMMUNIA e Wikimedia. Mais informações aqui.
This text was retroactively added in 2021. I published it as it was 2017, because I prefer to keep things ~in chronological order. Memes made in the woods of the south of Sweden, for Copyfighters. I think these - at least most of them -…
I'm a Copyright X evangelist. Every year, around September, I try to bring people to this course. Copyright X is an online course by the Berkman Klein Center For Internet & Society, from the Harvard Law School. A twelve-week networked course that has been offered annually…
Gosh, what a giant name. On the 100th birthday of the beginning of WWI, Valiant Hearts was the best work of art we could expect, to mark this date. The game manages to teach us a lot about WWI (really, there is an exceptional historical…
Este apelo foi escrito a 20 de Junho de 2016, num blog Medium (criado somente para o efeito). Foi o início da Associação D3. Pelo seu valor histórico (mais que não seja a nível pessoal), fica também aqui guardado. Aos activistas nacionais. Viva, Sei que…
Artigo publicado na Newsletter Hoje, organizada por Paulo Querido. Uma das referências jornalísticas na área dos videojogos em Portugal foi a revista BGamer. Fundada há mais de 15 anos, já havia abandonado o formato de revista com distribuição tradicional em Setembro de 2014 – era…
Artigo publicado na Newsletter Hoje, organizada por Paulo Querido. A Amazon acaba de disponibilizar Lumberyard, um motor de jogo 3D onde é possível criar conteúdos de alta qualidade, para PC e consolas. O Lumberyard baseia-se no famoso motor de jogo CryEngine; é disponibilizado gratuitamente e…