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As readers of this blog will doubtless know, Richard Stallman's great stroke of genius at the founding of the GNU project was to use cop...

Here's an interesting experiment that shows the way for all national libraries: Kopinor and the National Library of Norway signed a con...

What was Richard Stallman's greatest achievement? Some might say it's Emacs, one of the most powerful and adaptable pieces of softwa...

“They order, said I, this matter better in France.” So wrote Laurence Sterne in his 1768 book A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy...

Thousands of recordings that had been largely consigned to the realm of prehistory in the digital age have gained a new life, thanks to the ...

On Open Enterprise blog . If you're in the EU, please do this.

The Pirate's Dilemma : The Pirate’s Dilemma tells the story of how youth culture drives innovation and is changing the way the world wor...

The European Commission wants your help: On 03/01/2008, the Commission adopted a Communication on Creative Content Online which launches fu...

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...

One of the things that Eben Moglen has impressed on me when I've talked to him was that he - and Richard Stallman - have always preferre...

Most of this is just legal posturing , but the following paragraph is noteworthy: Intellectual property is worth $650 billion a year to the ...

One of the problems with the DRM battle is that it tends to get into a rut: the same old arguments for and against are trotted out. For tho...

See : it's not just me.... Although Microsoft’s attempt to exploit Google’s YouTube problems is understandable, it’s also slightly repul...

It seems that the WTO's demands are starting to bite in Vietnam : Though copyright sale isn’t very common on the Vietnamese market, at t...

This blog has constantly warned readers to be on their guard against weasel words whose unexceptionable and generalised nature betray an int...

...des idées - gratuit . (Via Lessig.org )

Printing-on-demand has long been a dream, and the Espresso Book Machine looks like it's making it a reality, albeit on a small scale. ...

I've written a fair amount about patent woes in these posts (some would probably say too much). And in many ways, patents are easy pick...

You may think that the US DMCA is bad enough, since it "criminalizes production and dissemination of technology that can circumvent me...

I've already written about how the "commons" meme is on the rise, with all that this implies in terms of co-operation, sharin...