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Copyright Issues Go Back a Long Way
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| Charles Dickens was angry at those American
| publishers in 1842 when he arrived in
| Montreal following a trip to the United
| States. Stephen Leacock notes in his book
| Charles Dickens, His Life and Work, that
| Dickens wrote home:
|
| Is it not a horrible thing that
| scoundrel booksellers should grow rich
| here from publishing books, the authors
| of which do not reap one farthing from
| their issue by scores of thousands; and
| that every vile, blackguard and
| detestable newspaper, so filthy and
| bestial that no honest man would admit
| one into his house for a scullery
| doormat, should be able to publish
| these same writingsâ?
|
| In 1880, the copyright issue was still
| around. In November, the Literary and
| Debating Society at the Mechanicsâ
| Institute of Montreal had this item as a
| subject of debate: âIs the action of the
| American Publishers respecting copyright
| likely to advance literature?â
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http://montrealhistory.org/2010/01/copyright-issues-go-back-a-long-way/
What Can We Learn from Gift Economies?
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| 3. It seems like a gift economy would be a
| whole lot easier to operate than a barter
| economy. Would that advantage be the reason
| gift economies, rather than barter
| economies, were so widely adopted
| historically?
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http://campfire.theoildrum.com/node/6160
Of Art and Copyright
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| It would be absurd if the amazing
| possibilities of digitising museum and art
| collection holdings were squandered because
| of a short-sighted and misguided obsession
| with copyright. We need to nip this in the
| bud, and get some leading institutions to
| come out in favour of disseminating their
| holdings in this way. If we don't we've
| decades of lock-down in front of us, just
| when things should be available to all.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2010/01/of-art-and-copyright.html
EU's Gallo Report: Rubbish Recycled
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| I've noted several times an increasingly
| popular trope of the intellectual
| monopolists: since counterfeiting is often
| linked with organised crime, and because
| counterfeiting and copyright infringement
| are vaguely similar, it follows as surely
| as night follows day that copyright
| infringement is linked with organised
| crime.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2010/01/eus-gallo-report-rubbish-recycled.html
IFPI Claims That Three Strikes Can Surgically Remove One Family Member From The Internet, But Not The Rest
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| Perhaps the folks at the IFPI don't quite
| understand how the internet works (or
| perhaps that's a given) but generally
| speaking, when you have internet access at
| your house, you don't set up separate
| access accounts for every family member...
| And if others in the family have access,
| what's to stop the "cut off" one from using
| the other's access?
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100127/1306367944.shtml
What's A Bigger Entitlement Mentality? Demanding Old Business Models Must Remain... Or Liking Free Stuff?
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| Apparently times are hard over at ECN
| Magazine. Rather than come up with
| compelling content to draw people in, its
| Technical Editor decided to pen the mother
| of all troll-baiting editorials. NSILMike
| points us to Jason Lomberg's recent rant on
| The Internet Entitlement Mentality, which I
| think may set a record for repeating pretty
| much every long-debunked fallacy about
| online content and business models, as well
| as how it describes those folks who
| actually understand basic economics, and
| how free works as part of an economic
| ecosystem.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100119/1135047818.shtml
Neutralize UK File-Sharing Legal Threats â Join TalkTalk
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| This week the condemnation of file-sharing
| âlegal blackmailâ lawyers ACS:Law has been
| widespread, with extremely harsh words
| coming from the countryâs House of Lords.
| Despite this the law firm are unrepentant
| and say they will persist with their
| campaign. It is, however, possible to
| immunize your family from this growing
| threat.
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http://torrentfreak.com/neutralize-uk-file-sharing-legal-threats-join-talktalk-100129/
Why I Think the Times Charging for Online Access is a Bad Idea, and How I Think They Could and Should Make Money
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| Is it reasonable to question how data, as
| an unproven but potential revenue source
| for the New York Times, would compare to
| the direct monetization scheme currently
| proposed? Of course. But given that one
| negatively impacts users, and one does not,
| I know which one I would try first. Not
| that they need be mutually exclusive, of
| course, but I would exhaust all of my
| options before embarking upon a course of
| action that might materially and
| permanently impact my relationship with my
| customer.
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http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2010/01/22/nytimes-paywall/
Corporate Copyright Scofflaws 0003
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| Iâve marked some names in blue, and the
| reason Iâve marked them in blue is that
| Sound Exchange is supposed to be
| responsible to musicians, and the names in
| blue are remoras. For those who donât know
| what a remora is, itâs a fish which
| attaches itself to larger marine animals,
| like sharks or whales to get a free ride.
| It offers nothing back to the animal is
| rides, nothing at all, and it couldnât
| exist without itâs ride.
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http://madhatter.ca/?p=232
Recent:
Is IP another bubble about to burst? A view from another civilization.
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| As a child growing up in India, one of the
| first things I learned is a hymn to
| Saraswati, the Goddess of Knowledge, which
| says that:
|
| Wonderful is your gift of knowledge
| the more we share, the more it grows
| the more we hoard it, the more it diminishes
|
| As a grown-up living in a globalized world,
| I am constantly bombarded by the the term,
| âintellectual property.â Policy makers keep
| saying that India should create more IP.
| Countless seminars extol the virtues of IP
| even as patents are granted for âMethod for
| swinging on a swing,â "Method for Concealing
| Partial Baldness." In the computer industry,
| patents are routinely granted for things
| that are obvious and have been known for
| years. Things have come to such a pass that
| even an industry veteran like Andy Grove was
| forced to say that, âThe true value of an
| invention is its usefulness to the public.
| Patents themselves have become products.
| They're instruments of investment traded on
| a separate market, often by speculators
| motivated by the highest financial return on
| their investment....
|
| [...]
|
| When we look back on our times, we may find
| that the term, "Intellectual Property" has
| taken its place along side another archaic
| term, "Horseless Carriage." Both were
| attempts to impose metaphors of the past on
| the future. And the folly of our times is
| that we treat inexhaustible resources like
| knowledge as finite resource and treat
| finite resources like oil and forests as
| infinite resources. The sooner we turn these
| attitudes around, the better it will be for
| the future of mankind.
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http://opensource.com/law/09/12/ip-another-bubble-about-burst-view-another-civilization
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