Showing posts with label sharing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sharing. Show all posts
27 October 2013

The Getty Gets It: 'Open Content, An Idea Whose Time Has Come'

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Techdirt has published a number of posts that explore the issue of whether art organizations can stop people sharing images of works in ...

Extending The Spectrum Of Openness To Include The Moral Right To Share

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Prefixing concepts with the epithet "open" has become something of a fashion over the last decade. Beginning with open source,...

University Of California Gives Big Boost To Open Access, Still Confused About Sharing Knowledge

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Techdirt has been monitoring for a while the inexorable rise of open access in the academic world. But even against a background of major...
26 October 2013

Dutch Libraries Go To Court To Make Sure They Can Lend Ebooks

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As we've noted before, many publishers have the crazy attitude that ebooks shouldn't be lent by libraries, and that it should be...
14 April 2013

Here's Another Inventor Who Willingly Gave Away His Greatest Idea In Order To Establish It As A Global Standard

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Beyond the fact that you are using it to read these words, the Web has undeniably had a major impact on a large part of the world's p...
11 November 2012

How To Use One Superfan To Spread The Word To Millions

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Techdirt has been a great believer in connecting with fans and giving them a reason to buy for many years , but it's always interesti...

Making The Most Of File Sharing: Free Market Research & A Captive Target Audience

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The demonization of file sharing by copyright maximalists blinds many companies to the fact that it is marketing in its purest form. Tha...
13 October 2012

Teenage Engineering: If Our Parts Are Too Expensive, Here's How To Print Your Own

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There's plenty of breathless writing about the imminent 3D-printing revolution, but realistically, what is it likely to mean for most...
23 July 2012

Is This Chemical Why File Sharers Buy More Music?

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One of the great divides in the digital world is between those who believe that people who share files online are selfish, thieving pirate...
10 June 2012

North Korean Study Confirms It: People Will Share, Whatever The Risks

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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how the ever-increasing storage capacity of portable hard drives made it unlikely that the sharing ...

'Hack The Real World And Share The Results'

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Eben Moglen has been battling to defend key digital rights for the last two decades. A lawyer by training, he helped Phil Zimmerman fig...

Which is Worse -- Sharing With Attribution, Or Plagiarism Without?

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At the end of last year we wrote about the case of Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, former Federal Minister of Defense in Germany, who lost b...

Spotify In A Box: Why Sharing Will Never Be Stopped

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Most people will be familiar with Moore's Law , usually stated in the form that processing power doubles every two years (or 18 month...
23 March 2012

ACTA On Hold, But The Protests Continue In Serbia

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One reason the European Commission decided to refer ACTA to the European Court of Justice may have been in the hope that people would sim...
25 January 2012

Paulo Coelho On SOPA: 'Pirates Of The World, Unite And Pirate Everything I’ve Ever Written!'

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We've written about the hugely-successful Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho many times before, because he is a great example of an artis...
19 January 2012

File Sharing Without The Internet: The Saharan Bluetooth Experience

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A couple of months ago, Techdirt wrote about an EU politician's plan to build Internet surveillance into every operating system. As ...
10 January 2012

Jazz Pioneer 'Jelly Roll' Morton's Music Finally Free For Re-use In Europe -- A Hundred Years Too Late

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A recent Techdirt post reminded us that thanks to its crazy copyright laws, the US won't be seeing anything new in the public domain...
24 November 2011

Sarkozy Worried About The Internet 'Stealing Audience Share' From 'Regulated' TV Services

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Earlier this week Techdirt reported on the surprisingly forthright statements of Neelie Kroes concerning the failure of the copyright syst...
22 November 2011

Why The Supreme Court's 'Grokster' Decision Led To More, Not Less, P2P Filesharing

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In the 2005 "Grokster" decision, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that file sharing networks could be held liable for copyr...
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19 November 2011

Learning From Beethoven: Speeding Up The Exchange Of Scientific Knowledge

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There is a general belief that science proceeds by smooth cycles of discovery and sharing – that scientists formulate theories, investigat...