Tuesday, October 26th, 2004
Why does "information want to be free"?
I think the phrase is a good way of explaining to most people that information is really hard to treat like property. The cost of reproduction and transportation is absurdly low, thus it is trivial to distribute freely, in the sense of "free as ...
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Tuesday, October 5th, 2004
The coming economic crisis in information
I enjoyed reading Adam Rifkin's back of the envelope calculations about personal information storage and processing. I'm looking forward to trying to make at least a few of the @20 Gigabytes of information I will deal with in my life really count. I know a ...
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004
People to look to for futher reading on intellectual property, especially copyright and patent.
John Perry Barlow
Wrote the influential Economy of Ideas in 1994 which is a great introduction to some of the issues facing intellectual property. I read it in Wired back then, and remember that it fascinated me but ...
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Tuesday, September 14th, 2004
This proposed legislation would make it illegal for any company to develop products which are capable of digital copyright infrigement if a significant market demand is generated by individuals with the intent to use the product primary for such infringement. Imagine a world where photocopiers and VCRs are illegal because ...
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Monday, August 2nd, 2004
Intellectual properties include copyright, trademark, patent, trade secrets and mask works. (yes I needed to look that one up also!)
The laws that govern such properties and their relationship to society were designed to foster investment in creativity and innovation since society would (arguably) be much less productive without the ...
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Saturday, July 31st, 2004
If you are, at a minimum, a consumer of copyrighted materials (e.g. books, movies, television, art, music) and especially if you are a creator of such content, and finally MOST ESPECIALLY if you care about diversity of culture and freedom of expression you MUST take 60 minutes from your life ...
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Tuesday, June 15th, 2004
I am reading Joseph Stiglitz' Globalization and Its Discontents. A fascinating look at the politics of international finance, particularly the World Bank, IMF and US Treasury. He makes an interesting point early on about how market transactions and their profitability are driven by assymetries of information between two ...
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