Showing posts with label abundance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label abundance. Show all posts
25 July 2014

How To Solve The Piracy Problem: Give Everyone A Basic Income For Doing Nothing

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Here on Techdirt we often discuss economics in the absence of scarcity -- how the ability to make any number of digital copies for vanis...
11 November 2012

Any Hint Of Evidence Based Copyright In The UK Seen As Nefarous Plot By Parliamentary Copyright Maximalists

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The laws governing intellectual monopolies in the UK are in a state of flux at the moment. After the previous government in its dying ho...

30 Years Of The CD, Of Digital Piracy, And Of Music Industry Cluelessness

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A post on The Next Web reminds us that the CD is thirty years old this month . As the history there explains, work began back in the 197...
15 July 2012

The Warehousing And Delivery Of Digital Goods? Nearly Free, Pretty Easy, Mostly Trivial

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One of the most important moments in the rise of a radical idea is when the fightback begins, because it signals an acceptance by the est...
07 March 2012

Isn't It Time Artists Lost Their 18th-Century Sense Of Entitlement?

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One of the common assumptions in the copyright debate is that artists are special, and that they have a right to make money from their wor...
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07 December 2011

Getting It: In A World Of Digital Abundance, Sell The Scarcities

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A recurrent refrain from the copyright industries is that you can't make money from digital goods if they are freely available online....
21 November 2011

Of Open Data Startups and Open Businesses

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Last week I was invited to talk at the South Tyrol Free Software Conference which took place in northern Italy, in the city of Bolzano (d...
01 October 2011

Dishing the Dirt on Me and Techdirt

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I'm sure all my readers know about Techdirt : Started in 1997 by Floor64 founder Mike Masnick and then growing into a group blog...
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30 July 2011

Revolutions

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On the first LP I ever owned was Tchaikovsky's Serenade, Ravel's Bolero and Smetana's "Bartered Bride" Overture. It w...
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26 July 2011

Why We Should - and Can - Abolish All Patents

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As long-suffering readers will know, I've been warning about the growing problem of patent thickets in the field of software for some ti...
17 June 2011

The Arrogance of Artists (and Publishers)

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You wouldn't expect much else from a meeting organised by WIPO, but this is pretty rich even for them: Copyright is necessary to allow ...
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17 March 2011

Berlin Declaration: More Than They Think

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So the publishing dinosaurs have got together and produced an egg: The Berlin Declaration on the Future of the Digital Press. Unfortunatel...
14 June 2010

Abundance Obsoletes Peer Review, so Drop It

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Recently, I had the pleasure of finally meeting Cameron Neylon , probably the leading - and certainly most articulate - exponent of open sci...
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10 November 2008

It's Morphic Resonance All Over Again

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Last week I was talking at the Open Everything meeting in London, where I went through some (most) of my tropes about openness and the crea...
02 February 2008

Kevin Kelly Joins the Club

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Nothing new here for readers of this blog, but good to see someone else saying it: the previous round of wealth in this economy was built on...
14 January 2008

An Intellectual Approach to File Sharing

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I've always assumed the Swedish Pirate Party were a bunch of anarchists who wanted to cock a snook at authority by disrupting one of it...
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