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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 ...

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...

Along with death and taxes, one of the other certainties in life is the constant flow of reports from the media industries claiming that cop...

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...