Cory Doctorow: New column about copy-friendly business models
The Guardian has started a 5-part column (“Copy Killers”) by Cory Doctorow. In the series, Cory shows what is so bad about Digital Rights Managements (DRM, also dubbed…
Category: copyright
Peer-to-peer networks a threat to national security, or: How to track who pays your Congressman
Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks allegedly threaten America’s national security, according to US Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.). Pardon me? Waxman said… … he was troubled by the…
Copyright on a Napkin
In this drawing, I attempt to explain the wonderful world of copyright law. As an aside, I think that all intellectual property (i.e. patent, trademark, copyright, and trade…
Our Second Life book going into print soon
Together with Thomas Praus (aka DJ Stylewalker) and Max Senges I’ve recently got the chance to write a summer university school for Barcelona-based university UOC (Universitat Oberta de…
Great copyright documentary: Good Copy Bad Copy
Good Copy Bad Copy (Denmark, 2007) is an amazing short documentary about copyright & remixing culture. (Also, it features Yochai Benkler in a great video interview at Re:Publica…
Our UOC Second Life textbook: released under CC license
A few weeks ago, Max Senges, Thomas Praus and I got the chance to draft and write a summer university course about Second Life for the UOC (Universitat…
IFPI rhetorics imply that file-sharing supports terrorism
A few days ago, IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) put out a press release titled “ten inconvenient truths“, which claims to offer new insights into the…