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You may have noticed a bit of a trend recently. Groups of hackers are getting hold of stuff that has hitherto been kept locked up, and makin...

I was pleased to discover last night that the video of my talk at FSCONS last November is now available: Glyn Moody - Keynote: Ethics of I...

There's a new meme in town these days: “rights of the artists”. The copyright industries have worked out that cries for more copyright ...

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

Last week I wrote a piece about analogue copying. Specifically, it centred on the 3D scanning and copying of an Aston Martin – because that ...

One of the reasons that digital music will be free - whether the recording companies want it or not - is basic economics: the marginal cost ...

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Diaspora, a free software project to create a distributed version of Facebook that gives control back to...

I write a lot about copyright, and the right to share stuff. In particular, I think that for digital artefacts – text, music, video etc. - f...

The recent battle over the Digital Economy Bill has focussed renewed attention on the area of copying digital artefacts – music and films, f...

Free software began as a political movement: its central aim was – and remains – the propagation of freedom. Later, it became a development...

Alongside the UK's Tom Watson , New Zealand's Clare Curran is shaping up as one of the leading net-savvy politicians in the world. ...

I must be a glutton for punishment: I've written yet another letter to my MP about the Digital Economy Bill (not that he bothered replyi...

Yesterday I attended the Counter Conference: The COUNTER Project (www.counter2010.org), funded under Framework 7 of the EU SSHRC Programme, ...

This isn't another post about Spotify: it's a perceptive comment made by the company's CEO during an interview : Q: We’ve heard ...

There's a great piece in the Washington Post with the headline "The MPAA says the movie business is great. Unless it's lousy....

Open source software is obviously extremely interesting to companies from a utilitarian viewpoint: it means they can reduce costs and – more...

Another nicely clueful piece in the Guardian : The emancipatory potential of the free dissemination of intellectual property through infini...

Flatworld , a open textbook publishing company, has finally come out of private beta. Here's what makes it different : We preserve the ...

Recently, I’ve started buying records. I’ve decided that CDs just aren’t enough of a collector’s item. Since I can own all the music I could...