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21 July 2011
An Open Government Data Licence for the World?
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As I've noted before, the UK government is now arguably the leader when it comes to open data. Of course, that's not really the poin...
20 July 2011
Myhrvold Hoist By His Own (Patented) Petard
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There's a column doing the rounds at the moment that is generating some interest. It comes from the King of the Patent Trolls, Nathan ...
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How Should We Liberate Knowledge?
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Here's an interesting situation at the online academic repository JSTOR: Last fall and winter, JSTOR experienced a significant misuse of...
How Should We Liberate Knowledge?
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Here's an interesting situation at the online academic repository JSTOR: Last fall and winter, JSTOR experienced a significant misuse of...
11 July 2011
To Defend Android Google Must Attack Software Patents
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Android is under serious threat. Not so much commercially, where it continues to trounce its rivals and take an ever-larger market share aro...
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07 July 2011
Open Season on Open Data
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Well, it seems to be Open Data week here on Computerworld UK. After my report on the Open Knowledge Conference in Berlin, one of whose princ...
05 July 2011
Data Portals Become Fashionable: Time to Worry?
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Yesterday I mentioned Nigel Shadbolt, who has played a leading role in the opening up of government data in the UK. By chance, I've just...
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04 July 2011
The Open Knowledge Foundation Comes of Age
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The Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) was launched just over seven years ago: May 24th 2004: The Open Knowledge Foundation was launched today ...
02 July 2011
The Rise and Fall and Rise of HTML
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HTML began life as a clever hack of a pre-existing approach. As Tim Berners-Lee explains in his book, “Weaving the Web”: Since I knew it wou...
29 June 2011
Open for Business in Every Way
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For some reason, I seem to be giving talks all over the place this month. I've already written about the one that I presented at the Eur...
27 June 2011
The Failed Experiment of Software Patents
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I've noted before that we are witnessing a classic patent thicket in the realm of smartphones, with everyone and his or her dog suing ev...
24 June 2011
Opening Up Design
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One of the most fascinating aspects of open source is how its key ideas are being applied elsewhere. Obvious examples include open content -...
21 June 2011
Of Standards and Software Patents
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Xiph.org has an interesting name and the following forthright self-description: Xiph.Org is a collection of open source, multimedia-related ...
20 June 2011
An Attack that Goes to the Heart of Free Software
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The key hack that made free software possible was a legal one: using copyright to keep software free. It did that by demanding a quid pro qu...
British Library Encloses the Public Domain
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There's considerable excitement about an announcement from the British Library and Google detailing a wonderful gift to the world: The ...
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17 June 2011
The Arrogance of Artists (and Publishers)
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You wouldn't expect much else from a meeting organised by WIPO, but this is pretty rich even for them: Copyright is necessary to allow ...
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16 June 2011
Of Open Source and Open Innovation
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Last week I wrote about a talk I gave with the title “Innovation inducement prizes as a possible mechanism to unlock the benefits of open in...
15 June 2011
US Abuses Copyright and Extradition Law: UK Acquiesces
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If you want a vision of the world of global repression and bullying that copyright maximalists are striving to create, try this: A Sheffield...
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14 June 2011
Software Patents: Do as You Would be Done By
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I've written plenty about why software patents should be resisted where they don't exist, and abolished where they do. But if I want...
13 June 2011
Do We Still Need the FSF, GNU and GPL?
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It's easy to take things for granted – to assume that the world will always be as it is. And then sometimes you receive a mild jolt: som...
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10 June 2011
Interoperability and Open Standards: Help Make It Happen
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In a previous column, I mentioned that I was invited to talk at a meeting at the European Parliament about innovation prizes last week. That...
07 June 2011
Good Apple, Bad Apple
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Since Apple has replaced Microsoft as the leading patent-wielding cheerleader for closed-source computing, it will come as no surprise that ...
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06 June 2011
The Great Prize: Innovating Without Monopolies
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Last week I was in Brussels, talking at the European Parliament - not, I hasten to add, talking to the Parliament. This was a more intimate ...
Back to Back-to-Back Bach
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Here's some good news : You can download for free the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach. They were recorded by Dr. James Kib...
02 June 2011
The Real Legacy of the Hargreaves Report?
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Now that the dust has settled a little on the Hargreaves report, I thought it might be worth revisiting it, but looking at it from a slightl...
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