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28 September 2011
Openness: An Open Question
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Last week I went along to OpenForum Europe , where I had been invited to give a short talk as part of a panel on “Tackling “Societal Chal...
27 September 2011
Why It's Time to Party Like It's 2011
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The Pirate Party has hovered on the edge of politics for a while now, acting as a kind of gadfly to traditional parties - annoying but not...
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23 September 2011
OSS Please!
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It has been a recurrent theme of these pages that the UK government is miles behind other administrations when it comes to adopting open s...
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21 September 2011
The True Cost of the Patent Trolls: Half a Trillion Dollars
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I've written a number of pieces about the inherent flaws of patents, especially in the field of software. Those are mostly to do with...
19 September 2011
Making Open Data Real: A Response
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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the “ Making Data Real ”consultation, promising to post my response. I have to admit that replying ...
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13 September 2011
Copyright Theft
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The ideas that "copyright theft" is widespread, and that people are "stealing" digital content from creators, are favour...
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Do We Need a Covenant for Open Source Businesses?
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It's no secret that businesses built around open source tend to favour one model in particular - that involving dual licensing. The ...
12 September 2011
UK Government: Open Standards Must be RF, not FRAND
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As regular readers of this column will know, one of the key issues for open source - and openness in general - is what is meant by open s...
09 September 2011
Help Stop the Blind Being Kicked in the Teeth Again
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I frequently cover the subject of copyright on this blog because increasingly it is impacting the lives of readers, both as individuals a...
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08 September 2011
Michael Hart (1947 - 2011): Prophet of Abundance
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I've never written an obituary before in these pages. Happily, that's because the people who are driving the new wave of openness...
07 September 2011
Democratising OpenCourseWare
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OpenCourseWare - putting texts and videos of educational lectures online for anyone to download, use and often build on - is a great idea. ...
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06 September 2011
Now That's What I call (21st-Century) Music
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Thanks to the good offices of @nzJayZee , I have just been sent to this musician's rather heartwarming Web site , wherein he says the f...
05 September 2011
The Great Copyright Conspiracy Laid Bare
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My last post might have seemed slightly over the top - and indeed was meant to be. After all, it's not as if the US really wants to sub...
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Europeans Care About Civil Liberties: US Shocked
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The leaked US cables will clearly provide a rich vein to be mined for many months to come. I don't really have the time to go digging d...
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The Origins of Europe's Suicidal Copyright Policies
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One of the most important recent pieces of research to appear in the field of copyright and its enforcement was " Media Piracy in Emerg...
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02 September 2011
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, Monopoly
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Just when you think that Sarkozy can't get any worse, he does : Le ministère des affaires étrangères a fait savoir que la France ne so...
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01 September 2011
Open Data: Help "Make it Real"
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As I indicated yesterday, I have serious doubts about the UK government's policy on copyright. But while that has been something of a di...
Cents of Entitlement
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The "copyright levy" - typically a charge levied on blank recording media such as audio tapes, CDs and DVDs - is a total anachroni...
31 August 2011
Politicians Start Getting Digital Copyright Right
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As readers of this blog probably recall, the passage of the Digital Economy Act was one of the most disgraceful episodes in the history of t...
Welcome to Moody's Microblog Daily Digest
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I joined Twitter on 1st January 2010 as an experiment. I wanted to see whether this trendy thing had any real merit, or was simply the late...
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17 August 2011
What Does Motoroogle Mean?
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I am really quite relieved Google is trying to acquire Motorola Mobility. Not because I think it will solve all the problems of Android - it...
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15 August 2011
Rotten to the Core
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Back in April, when Apple sued Samsung in the US, I noted that Apple's claims seemed pretty over the top - basically claiming that any r...
14 August 2011
Patents: Just Do the Maths
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As I've noted , there is an sudden efflorescence of writing about the ills of the patent system. Obviously, on one level, that's gr...
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13 August 2011
Shutting Down... the West
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The pundits have only just begun to offer their weighty thoughts on the subject, but already one of the key threads to emerge in discussions...
12 August 2011
Solving Microsoft's Hard Problem
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Microsoft has a problem to solve. On the one hand, open source is not going away – its distributed, modular and iterative approach clearly h...
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