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public domain
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11 May 2008
In Praise of the Public Domain
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I write a lot about licensing here. Indeed, licensing arguably lies at the heart of free software. But there's another important way o...
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08 March 2008
Microsoft Slouches Towards Bethlehem
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On Open Enterprise blog .
04 February 2008
Is Sarko Uxorious?
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You can't help wondering whether Sarkozy's chanteuse missus had something to do with this one : Taking a position contrary to that o...
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11 January 2008
The Problems of the Public Domain
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Here's an interesting exploration of the perils of putting your stuff into the public domain: Countries with moral rights protections, ...
17 December 2007
Open Access Data - A Question of Protocol
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Something calling itself a “ Protocol for Implementing Open Access Data ” sounds about as exciting as a list of ingredients for paint. But ...
23 November 2007
Public Domain Search
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One of the big advantages of open content is that there are no problems with indexing it - unlike proprietary stuff, where owners can get un...
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05 October 2007
Communia Communes with the Commons
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Hopeful sign , here: The COMMUNIA Thematic Network wants to place itself as the European point of reference for theoretical analysis and str...
04 October 2007
IBM Makes Good on Patent Bloop
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Not something you see everyday - yet: IBM has put into the public domain and withdrawn its application for patent number US2007/0162321 - O...
27 September 2007
WIPO Takes Baby Steps Towards the Light
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I've noted before that WIPO needs to change to reflect the new realities of sharing content, and not just the sclerotic view of the old ...
16 August 2007
Not So Au Courant
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This piece from The Courant is like the coelacanth: not very pretty, but fascinating for its atavistic traits: Unlike copyright-protected ...
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14 August 2007
A Public Enquiry into the Public Domain
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The public domain is a vastly underappreciated resource - which probably explains why there have been so many successful assaults on it in r...
02 August 2007
Google's Choice of Hercules
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Further to yesterday's post about a call to respect free use of copyrighted material, here's an interesting point about Google'...
05 July 2007
Google Books Open Up - A Bit
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One of the problems with the otherwise laudable Google Book Project is that it's not actually providing access to the texts, just adding...
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08 May 2007
Cory on the DRM'd BBC
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I and many others have written about the pathetic moves by the BBC in terms of adopting Windows DRM, but you've got to give it to Cory, ...
06 March 2007
Real Openness, Real Guts
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Carl Malamud is one of the original digital pioneers, probably best-known for founding Internet Multicasting Service and Internet Talk Radi...
25 February 2007
Hope for WIPO?
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OK, I admit it: I've been a teensy bit negative about WIPO in the past. In part, this was because I thought there was precious little h...
02 January 2007
Public Domain Day
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An interesting list of works that have come into the public domain this year - in some places, depending on how idiotic the term of copyrig...
07 November 2006
Let My Music Go
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There is a mini-disaster looming in the UK: the music industry wants to extend the term of copyright for sound recordings. It would be bad ...
21 September 2006
Open Prosthetics
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Here's a fascinating project: Open Prosthetics . It's exactly what it says, free designs for prosthetics, although the exact licen...
30 August 2006
Open Source Audio Books
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A nice piece in the New York Times about audio books based on public domain titles. Two points are worth noting. One is the following co...
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