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Infreemational news for the new year
More signs that the music industry is realizing just how bad DRM is for business and experimenting with distributing music without digital rights controls: “The majors . . . have got to capitulate, or they will continue to have a … Continue reading
Freeconomics and the copybot: consequences for intellectual property
Chris Anderson of Long Tail fame “cheekily” coins freeconomics as shorthand for his more recent thesis on “economics of abundance“. (I should mention that he does so with apologies to Freakonomics) Anderson points out how technology that was once scarce … Continue reading
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Tagged copyright, DRM, economics, governance, infreemation, policy
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DMCA exceptions granted
The 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a law in the United States which criminalizes technology which circumvents copyright. It has been widely criticized. Ed Felten at Freedom to Tinker reports some exceptions to the DMCA were recently granted: … Continue reading
Alternatives to DRM? [Updated: YouTube’s perfect storm]
UPDATE: Google has bought YouTube for 1.6+ Billion and there is a hell of a debate going on surrounding Mark Cuban’s criticism of Google’s purchase and the actual value of YouTube given that it does not use DRM, therefore requiring … Continue reading
The Internet Wants to Be Free
In my previous post I argue that internet neutrality legislation could help ease the transition to an internet society and economy. On further thought and debate I’m not really sure that regulation would be the most constructive response to the … Continue reading
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Tagged copyright, DRM, economics, emergence, evolution, governance, infreemation, network neutrality, network science
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Fair use and network neutrality – is there a stable solution?
In his post “Fair Use and Network Neutrality” Lessig draws a connection which did not seem to previously exist but appeals to me as I have been looking for an excuse to talk about both in the same breath. He … Continue reading
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Are search engines illegal? The challenge of accessing copyrighted material under fair use and how it impacts our education.
Following the debate on fair use is a great way to dive into information economics. We all know and love that various kinds of media (audio, video, print…) are used to create songs, movies and books (or more generally “works”). … Continue reading
Go with the flow – The case for information policy compliance monitoring
How do you control the flow of information in your organization? More importantly how to you secure these flows of information? It is impractical to physically protect all of an organization’s sensitive information from being copied and stolen, because it … Continue reading
Infreemation Revolution
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 … Continue reading
Infreemation Part 3 – further reading
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 … Continue reading