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As regular readers will know, I regard the concept of the commons as an increasingly important one, not least because it pulls together thre...

There's a new meme in town these days: “rights of the artists”. The copyright industries have worked out that cries for more copyright ...

As you may have noticed, one of the central themes of this blog is the power of sharing. Mostly, I talk about non-rivalrous goods like soft...

This is so misguided: Digital personal property (DPP) is an attempt to make consumers treat digital media like physical objects. For instan...

Surpising - but good - news if true: Internet service providers will not be forced to disconnect users who repeatedly flout the law by ille...

As I've noted before, I'm something of a connoisseur of FUD, and I really like coming across new examples. Here's one , direct...

I have referred to radio spectrum as a commons several times in this blog. But there's a problem: since spectrum seems to be rivalrous...