Category Archives: copyright

Don’t executives at major media companies pay attention?  This parody of the Colbert Report, called Stop the Falsiness is as much an ad for the show as it is its own thing.  There is nothing here that would at all … Continue reading →

As usual, Jon Stewart says it best.

This is more than a little disturbing.  But, sometimes the truth isn’t pretty. Link: Fighting for Net Neutrality and Internet Freedom.

What the MPAA doesn’t want you to think but first…watch the original MPAA campaign video here Then view the more accurate version

JZ from the Berkman Center writes his take on the state of the Internet – as the title suggest, declaring that the main fucntionality of the network is its generativity.  The full text is available here.  And William McGeveran’s interesting … Continue reading →

This article by Cindy  Cohn / James  Grimmelmann argues for a distinction between code and law.  Code can be law with no values, no interpretation, no room for the human uses of things.  As so many aspects of life are … Continue reading →

One must be careful not to develop software that is too helpful.  As is made quite clear with this recent case… Facing an upswell of protest, Warner Chappell Music on Friday formally apologized to Walter Ritter over a letter it … Continue reading →

This is just a great resource for open business ideas.  I find it increasingly disturbing to note just how resistant people are to these ideas.  The corporate model of copyright, one that is counter productive to small business and independent … Continue reading →

University presses are in the business of distributing information, right?  Well then why are they trying to stop what promises to be the most impressive development in scholarship since the printing press? Is Google really the bad guy here?  Link: … Continue reading →