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Part of the quid pro quo of copyright is that works are supposed to enter the public domain after a limited period of monopoly protection. ...

Brilliant, succinct post by Rufus Pollock explaining what copyright is supposed to be doing (if it's doing anything): copyright is inst...

Another impressive line-up of mega-academics denouncing the lack of logic for the proposed copyright extension currently being considered in...

It has been clear since the mid 1990s that search engines are central to the Internet and its use. The rise of Google as the bellewether Ne...

There have been plenty of arguments over copyright and what an appropriate term for it should be, but, to my knowledge, precious few mathema...

I commented before that I thought Rufus Pollock's use of the term "atomisation" in the context of open content didn't qui...

On Saturday I attended the Open Knowledge 1.0 meeting, which was highly enjoyable from many points of view. The location was atmospheric: ...

More light reading - this time about the public domain. Or rather, a little beyond the traditional public domain, as the author Rufus Poll...