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Name: Paul Hyland
Location: Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

I'm the executive producer for the web site of a nonprofit publisher of education news, information, and resources, I play in a band, and I work on analyzing and influencing the impact of computers on society. I love my partner in life and my daughter very much.

My Daughter

three friends
She hangs w/ her peeps
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Videos:
She Walks @ 1 (9.6MB)
She Drums @ 2 (2.6MB)


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Paul's Web Space 2.1

Politics, Culture, Technology

Stories about cool events I've attended, musings about social media and other technology, and commentary about people, issues, ideas, whatever. I've had a web site since 1994, at my own domain since 1997, and switched it to blog format in 2005. Now, in 2008, I've added labels, shuffled things around a bit and fixed some style and UI quirks - hence 2.1. Watch for more widgets and microformats....
Monday, October 24, 2005

CPSR Opposes WIPO Broadcast Treaty Proposal

I'm on the Board of Directors of an organization called Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR), and am the primary activist around issues of Intellectual Property (for lack of a better term). We work with numerous other organizations on these issues, including Public Knowledge, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and the Consumer Project on Technology (CPTech).

I just helped CPTech draft a letter to Congress opposing a new treaty that the U.S. Government is proposing to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and encouraging them to require public comments on this process. Read more about it on the CPTech web site.
   Link: http://www.cpsr.org/issues/ip/wipobroadcastletter