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24 July 2014
German Director Proposes 'One-Stop Shop' For Free, Instant, But Non-Exclusive Licenses To Offer Films Online
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It's always heartening to come across new ideas for ways to make creations more widely available to the public while allowing artist...
15 July 2012
Are Books Printed With Disappearing Ink Really The Best Way To Make People Read Them?
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As Techdirt has noted , the main threat to artists is not piracy, but obscurity -- the fact that few know they are creating interesting s...
12 May 2012
After the German Pirate Party's String Of Successes, Here Comes The Backlash
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Over the last few months, Techdirt has been reporting on the amazing rise of the German Pirate Party, with win after win after win . Po...
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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02 December 2011
Why We Don't Need To 'Think Of The Artists': They're Doing Fine
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Just as politicians routinely invite us to " think of the children " when they want to push through some new liberty-reducing la...
07 November 2011
Free As In Freedom: But Whose Freedom?
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It would be hard to overstate the contribution of Richard Stallman to the digital world. The founding of the GNU project and the creatio...
31 October 2011
Why Creative Commons Licenses Help Rather Than Hinder Struggling Artists
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Creative Commons (CC) has been with us for nearly a decade, so you would have thought people might understand it by now. Apparently not, ...
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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09 May 2011
Portugal to Make CC Licences Illegal?
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I recently wrote about the suggestion that a "Great Firewall of Europe" should be created - a fine example of political cluelessn...
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21 November 2010
No Art Please, You're Not British
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I thought we had got beyond this daftness : A Cellist was held at Heathrow Airport and questioned for 8 hours this week. A terrorist suspec...
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22 October 2009
Artists to Fans to Artists: Positive Feedback
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One of the sad things about the current mess in the music industry is that artists are too often pitted against fans, when in fact both want...
09 October 2009
Why Creativity Needs Shorter Copyright Terms
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In response to a tweet of mine about shortening copyright to stimulate creativity, someone questioned the logic. It's an important poin...
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01 May 2009
The Sad Intellectual Monopolist's Viewpoint
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If you want to see how misguided the British publishing industry's attitudes are to copyright and its users, you could do worse than rea...
27 March 2007
BuyaBand, SellaBand
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At last - someone is trying a new business model for digital music : For the first time fans and Artists can be in business together. Theref...
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