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The Pirate Party has hovered on the edge of politics for a while now, acting as a kind of gadfly to traditional parties - annoying but not...

One of the frustrating things about being on the side of right, justice, logic and the rest is that all of these are trumped by naked inside...

Although I have a great deal of time (and respect) for Lawrence Lessig, I think his article "Against Transparency" is fundamental...

... surprises , that is: So my blog turns seven today. On August 20, 2002, while hiding north of San Francisco working on the Eldred appeal,...

One of the favourite passages invoked by people who believe that sharing does not diminish ideas (and by extension digital content) but enha...

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...

Regular readers of this blog will have spotted that I've been posting more about transparency recently. Of course, it's a natural e...

Is Joi Ito barking ? In the future according to Ito: "Every object on the Internet will have a licence and copyright information and th...

I'd seen that Larry Lessig had written another fine rant about intellectual monopolies, this time in Newsweek . What I had missed in m...

Talking of openness and Obama : President-elect Obama has made a clear commitment to changing the way government relates to the People. His...

There is an irony at the heart of the open content world: that the two biggest successes there – Wikipedia and the Creative Commons movement...

At 2pm on October 29th, 2008, ten years after the Archimedes Palimpsest was purchased by the present owner, the core data generated by the p...

Wow, outrageous : Although it is unclear at this point who Senators Obama and McCain might choose, AAP believes it essential that key offici...

I have a lot of time for Larry Lessig. He's a nice bloke, very bright but disarmingly modest. Nonetheless, when I heard about his plan...

Larry Lessig's The Future of Ideas is one of the key books of the open content world, so it's particularly appropriate that it shou...

One of Larry Lessig's favourite concepts is that of the remix : taking pre-existing stuff and doing something new with it. Recently I c...

On Nov. 5, Google (GOOG) unveiled what many in the phone business had long awaited. CEO Eric Schmidt explained how the search giant was read...

Although this article by Tim Wu came out a few days ago, I hadn't read it through until now; but I see that it's raising some fasci...

Nice little victory here for Larry Lessig and friends in their fight to defend the shrinking public domain in the US: The 10th Circuit deci...

"Crowdsharing" has become rather a modish term for what is, after all, an old concept: broad-based collaborative working. It'...