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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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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