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It was founded by Julius Caesar in 59 BC, which kind of makes him the founder of my whole industry. And it's called the "Acta Diurna"-- "diurna" meaning daily, the root of the word journalism and journal. And the idea was that the "Acta Diurna" would have a summary of the most important speeches given the previous day in the Senate and in the Peoples'
And it's called the "Acta Diurna"-- "diurna" meaning daily, the root of the word journalism and journal. And the idea was that the "Acta Diurna" would have a summary of the most important speeches given the previous day in the Senate and in the Peoples' Assembly, the two houses of the Roman system.
But my favorite example is the way the news circulated in the sort of official gazette. And it's called the "Acta Diurna." It was founded by Julius Caesar in 59 BC. And as someone who works in news media, that means he sort of founded our industry, which is quite funny.
talked about this as well-- that when a Roman was outside Rome, they would expect their friends to keep them abreast of the news by sending them the most relevant parts of the "Acta ." And in some cases, in fact, entire copies of the "Acta Diurna" transcribed. And that way they could keep up with what was happening.
And that way they could keep up with what was happening. But they didn't just what the raw content of the "Acta ," they wanted the discussion of it the commentary and the analysis that their friends would provide around it as well. So the Romans were using their friends to sift the news and to deliver the news.
Hopefully this will go right up. Rob Reid: The recent debate over copyright laws, like SOPA in the United States and the ACTA agreement in Europe has been very emotional. And I think some dispassionate quantitative reasoning could really bring a great deal to the debate.
every country would eventually be bound to it through other trade agreements, right? If you want to stay in the WTO, you have to adopt the ACTA provisions and they declared the text of the treaty a secret, although we've seen drafts of it because it leaks like a sieve because there's, you know, hundreds of negotiators there and they all share them with executives from various industries in their countries. You know there's a list of
So you've got a lot more bankruptcies. And do you anticipate that there's any type of similar kind of effect that was actaully had when you saw the returns on PE
Cicero asks one of his friends to do this when he's sent to be the governor of what's basically Syria now. And Caelius, his friend, is so desperate not to leave anything out that he has an entire copy of the "Acta " made everyday. And Cicero quickly stops him and says, look, this is oversharing.
effective and adequate protection to U.S. works and it's become rigid. First of all, it's anti-democratic, as the demonstrations and protests about ACTA have, uh, have pointed out. It's an anti-democratic way to make policy, to have trade officials doing it, but once you do it, then it becomes rigid and you can't go back,
done it, it may prevail in the wrong kind of gym classes but its certainly not something that we think of as fundamental to justice. You know, the Geneva Conventions prohibit it so for the idea that this might become the law of the land and it's not just here, it's all over the world - there's an international copyright treaty under way called ACTA , the Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which has moved copyright negotiations from the UN, from the World Intellectual Property Organization or WIPO. I sometimes say it has the same relationship