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In the wake of its “success” in pushing through Digital Economy Act, the British music industry is hoping to move on to the next stage: usin...

When a big enough star dies, it generally implodes, and forms a voracious black hole capable of swallowing anything that comes too close. W...

The UK government's Canute-like efforts to stem the tide of online copyright infringement have plumbed new depths, it seems : Proposals ...

This is something that's struck me too: as is oh-so-typical in these situations, Osnos does nothing at all to engage or respond to the ...

A question that often comes up is why people blog and twitter. I've given various answers over the years, but once again Mike Masnick s...

I suppose I should expect this now: In a surprise move, Microsoft has announced it will offer a free anti-virus and security solution from ...

Mike Masnick gets it again: many folks look at Silicon Valley and try to replicate the outward manifestations (a good university, some vent...

When I read this riposte by British Phonographic Industry's chief executive, Geoff Taylor, to an eminently reasonable column by Bill T...

As readers of this blog may have gathered, I am not the biggest fan of Nathan Myhrvold. I am, however, a big fan of Mike Masnick, especiall...

Mike Masnick is a truly fantastic writer, because he begins a piece thus: Malcolm Gladwell is a truly fantastic writer ...only to end up pr...

Another great post from Mike Masnic: The fashion industry got jealous of the entertainment industry's ability to crack down on innovati...

Techdirt 's Mike Masnick pointed to yet another exploration of free as a business model. It's called "Free Love": which ...

A nice point from Mike Masnick: Those who insist that copyright is the same as real property break their own rule by also insisting that th...

One of the claims to fame of Techdirt 's Mike Masnick is for coining the phrase " the Streisand effect ": The phenomenon takes...

Charlie McCreevy is a one-man disaster area: first he tries to bring in software patents for the European Union, now he wants to extend cop...

What's interesting about this piece in the Guardian describing how the music industry is finally waking up to the virtues of free is t...

DRM is normally viewed as an issue in the world of digital content, which can be duplicated losslessly. But in this virtuosic post , Mike M...

I won't bother demolishing this sad little piece on why software patents are so delicious and yummy, because Mike Masnick has already d...

We often call copyright a species of intellectual property, abbreviating it, “IP.” This brief paper suggests that we consider copyright as a...