Showing posts with label scarcity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scarcity. Show all posts
11 November 2012

Any Hint Of Evidence Based Copyright In The UK Seen As Nefarous Plot By Parliamentary Copyright Maximalists

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The laws governing intellectual monopolies in the UK are in a state of flux at the moment. After the previous government in its dying ho...

30 Years Of The CD, Of Digital Piracy, And Of Music Industry Cluelessness

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A post on The Next Web reminds us that the CD is thirty years old this month . As the history there explains, work began back in the 197...
15 July 2012

The Warehousing And Delivery Of Digital Goods? Nearly Free, Pretty Easy, Mostly Trivial

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One of the most important moments in the rise of a radical idea is when the fightback begins, because it signals an acceptance by the est...
07 December 2011

Getting It: In A World Of Digital Abundance, Sell The Scarcities

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A recurrent refrain from the copyright industries is that you can't make money from digital goods if they are freely available online....
21 November 2011

Of Open Data Startups and Open Businesses

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Last week I was invited to talk at the South Tyrol Free Software Conference which took place in northern Italy, in the city of Bolzano (d...
26 July 2011

Why We Should - and Can - Abolish All Patents

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As long-suffering readers will know, I've been warning about the growing problem of patent thickets in the field of software for some ti...
18 November 2008

More Analyst Cluelessness

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Yesterday in " the other place " I was berating Gartner for its inability to understand the reality of open source, and now here...
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10 November 2008

It's Morphic Resonance All Over Again

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Last week I was talking at the Open Everything meeting in London, where I went through some (most) of my tropes about openness and the crea...
12 February 2008

Free Thinking

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I have been accused of being " sniffy " about Kevin Kelly's meditation on eight new scarcities created by free; well, be that...
02 February 2008

Kevin Kelly Joins the Club

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Nothing new here for readers of this blog, but good to see someone else saying it: the previous round of wealth in this economy was built on...
14 January 2008

An Intellectual Approach to File Sharing

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I've always assumed the Swedish Pirate Party were a bunch of anarchists who wanted to cock a snook at authority by disrupting one of it...
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Has EMI Finally Heard the Music?

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I'm not the biggest fan of private equity companies, but they do have the virtue of being ruthlessly logical: they are not enslaved by h...
07 January 2008

The Value of Scarcity in the Age of Ubiquity

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This is the future: Just when digital reproduction makes it possible to create a “Rembrandt” good enough to fool the eye, the “real” Rembra...
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03 July 2007

Blizzards and Beauty: An Ode to Open Access

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Peter Suber has long been recognised as the official chronicler of the open access movement; now, with the publication of this paean , it s...
04 May 2007

The Economics of Free

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One of the central themes of this blog is that Internet has changed many things by allowing the distribution of digital objects for virtuall...
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