Archive for the ‘Intellectual property issues’ Category
Wednesday, April 13th, 2005
This is a strange issue. A public radio host aired audio he had recorded from C-SPAN. His station fired him, without notice, for "gross violation of federal copyright law and consequently WRPI's policy." Thing is - C-SPAN doesn't believe there's been any breach of copyright and didn't complain. Ah, over-active ...
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Friday, April 1st, 2005
I don't know if it's because of, or despite, their intensely sarcastic style, but ntk is an extremely informative bulletin on developments (particularly in the UK and Europe) relating to technology and related topics such as copyright, patents and 'eDemocracy' efforts. In today's bulletin they talk about time-shifting. First they ...
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Wednesday, March 16th, 2005
Lawrence Lessig has decided not to publish in journals that force him to sign over his copyright or that do not allow him to license his article under at least a Creative Commons attribution-noncommercial license. [This is a relatively restricted license that would not allow commercial use - thereby preventing ...
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Monday, March 7th, 2005
Lessig has rightly brought attention to the European Commission's refusal to back down over software patents, despite losing a vote in the European Parliament. As Matt Drudge would say, "developing..."
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Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005
I've finished the paper on Columcille, or at least the first working version - I assume there will be later incarnations of it. I attach a PDF - I'd appreciate comments and responses.
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Friday, February 25th, 2005
I recently mentioned the objections some people have to the term piracy in the context of a piece on pirate radio. Of course the term is also used in relation to unauthorised/illegal copying of copyright material, as I mentioned in passing, and I've just encountered, once again, RMS's comments. I ...
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005
As days go today has been more productive than many. I must admit it's been somewhat strange though. I've been working mainly on an essay focusing on intellectual property - you could describe it as the political economy of intellectual property in an archaic social system - which is related ...
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Friday, February 18th, 2005
Good news for opponents of software patents today, with the European Parliament calling on the EU Commission to withdraw its draft proposal.
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Thursday, February 10th, 2005
The Eyes on the Prize controversy which Wired has been covering may provide the perfect test-case for smashing the overly expansive copyright system. I didn't jump fast enough to grab the shared versions (my download capacity is capped, so grabbing the material would have been a slow and problematic process) ...
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Thursday, February 3rd, 2005
Paul at MediaGeek has an insightful piece about 'podcast'-type production being characterised as analogous to pirate radio. His argument is summed up thusly:Have we gone so far down the government-corporate-totalitarian path that we now believe anything that isn't officially sanctioned by a government or corporation must somehow be really underground ...
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