Infreemational news for the new year

Monday, January 8th, 2007

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 fractured digital media market that will slow down and stagnate," says ...

Intellectual Property absurdisms

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

There is a gold rush on intellectual property, testing the coherence of IP law. Many are bordering on the absurd, here is an example reported at Techdirt: more bizarre is the lawsuit the company is facing down in Chile where Microsoft dared to offer a version of its software in the ...