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Open Science vs. Intellectual Monopolies
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| Well, maybe it creates a tension because
| intellectual monopolies are fundamentally
| antithetical to science and knowledge.
| Maybe the scientific community needs to
| realise this, and ought to refuse to
| compromise on its basic tenets of sharing
| knowledge for the greater good, not least
| because the shift from analogue to digital
| is magnifying their importance. Maybe the
| report should have been less pusillanimous
| in this respect.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2010/03/open-science-vs-intellectual-monopolies.html
Britainâs other new copyright law
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| The lack of public controversy surrounding
| the Regulations may, in part, be because
| they donât affect very many of us in a big
| way â unless you happen to be a media
| studies student that is. Mostly they offer
| copyright exceptions when copying film and
| music for academic purposes. Students get a
| fair-dealing exception when using sound
| recordings, films and broadcasts in
| research. Schools and colleges can record
| clips of film and music, and transmit them
| and recorded broadcasts to distance
| learners. Libraries and museums can make
| copies of films, sound recordings and
| artistic works for preservation purposes.
| Hereâs a summary.
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http://the1709blog.blogspot.com/2010/03/britains-other-new-copyright-law.html
EU ministers want new life for IP enforcement
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| European Union minsters have told EU
| governing bodies to revive plans to create
| a pan-EU law criminalising intellectual
| property infringement, and to make more use
| of a new body to cooperate on the
| enforcement of intellectual property
| rights.
|
| They have also asked the European
| Commission to create new laws if
| cooperation does not work.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/08/eu_ip_enforcement/
How to Build a Post-Scarcity Village Using Existing Technology - Marcin Jakubowski (FSCONS 2009)
http://vimeo.com/8692654
Marcin Jakubowski - Transformative Economics via Open Source Product Development
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| We aim to create a world-class center for
| open product development, and popularize
| the open development method as a viable
| competitor to corporate research and
| development. In this presentation, we will
| introduce the GVCS, and its applications
| relevant to creating a free society. We
| will show initial results of economically-
| significant product development with the
| high-performance Compressed Earth Brick
| (CEB) press as our first product release.
| We will discuss our goals of producing Open
| Source Business Models (OSBM) as a route
| towards distributive economics.
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http://www.fscons.org/node/72
If the shoe fits, theyâll copy it
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| Though Suk may think itâs clear why the
| fashion world needs tighter restrictions,
| shoppers and even some designers in Boston
| arenât all quick to agree.
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http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/fashion/articles/2010/03/07/should_the_law_protect_fashion_from_knockoffs/
Music Biz Hopes To End Piracy By Tempting ISPs With Millions
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| A new study commissioned on behalf of
| Universal Music reports that if ISPs got
| involved in the digital music market, they
| could make millions in the years to come.
| But one canât help wondering that this is
| less about the music biz helping ISPs to
| make more profit, but more about giving
| them an incentive to do something about
| piracy.
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http://torrentfreak.com/music-biz-hopes-to-end-piracy-by-tempting-isps-with-millions-100308/
Billions of photos online, Billions of privacy offenders?
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| Both freedom of expression and privacy are
| fundamental human rights. But those rights
| are not both equally enforced, protected or
| policed. There are literally thousands of
| data protection bureaucrats in Europe whose
| job is to enforce European data protection
| regulations. As far as I can tell, there is
| not a single government official in all of
| Europe whose sole job is to do the same for
| freedom of expression. Curious, no?
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http://peterfleischer.blogspot.com/2010/03/billions-of-photos-online-billions-of.html
Piracy Rises In France Despite Three Strikes Law
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| In the first few months following the
| adoption of the three-strikes anti-piracy
| legislation in France, online piracy has
| increased significantly. Instead of
| stopping, file-sharers are seeking
| alternatives to bypass the new law. Perhaps
| even more striking is that new research
| reveals that disconnecting file-sharers
| will actually hurt the revenues of the
| music industry.
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http://torrentfreak.com/piracy-rises-in-france-despite-three-strikes-law-100609/
Music industry failing to promote legal alternatives to piracy
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| Consumer Focus, the Government-backed
| watchdog, sees the growth of the legal
| online music market as the best way to
| tackle online copyright infringement, but
| it claims that the music industry is
| failing to promote the many legal
| alternatives.
|
| [...]
|
| The Governmentâs Digital Economy Bill, not
| yet law, contains measures to disconnect
| persistent offenders through a process of
| graduated warnings.
|
| The consumer body has also called for
| reform of UKâs copyright licensing system
| to make it easier for online music services
| to offer copyrighted works to consumers
| legally.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/7392178/Music-industry-failing-to-promote-legal-alternatives-to-piracy.html
OK, Computer: File Sharing, the Music Industry, and Why We Need the Pirate Party
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| The Pirate Party believes the state and big
| business are in the process of protecting
| stale and inefficient models of business
| for their own monetary benefit by limiting
| our right to share information. The Pirate
| Party suggests that they are achieving this
| goal through the amendment of intellectual
| property legislation. In the dawn of the
| digital era, the Pirate Party advocates
| that governments and multinational
| corporations are using intellectual
| property to: crack down on file sharing
| which limits the ability to share knowledge
| and information; increase the terms and
| length of copyright to raise profits; and
| build code into music files which limits
| their ability to be shared (Pirate Party,
| 2009). There are a number of âcopyright
| industriesâ that are affected by these
| issues, none more so than the music
| industry. Its relationship with file
| sharing is topical and makes an excellent
| case study to address the impact big
| business has had on intellectual property
| and the need for the Pirate Partyâs
| legislative input. The essay will then
| examine the central issues raised by
| illegal file sharing. In particular, the
| future for record companies in an
| environment that increasingly demands
| flexibility, and whether the Pirate Partyâs
| proposal is a viable solution to the music
| industryâs problems.
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http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/platform/essay_cosstick.html
RIAA Takes The Cake: Equates File Sharing To Children's Fairy Tale
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| Something must be in the water over at the
| RIAA. After first trying to link the
| Chinese hack of Google to Google's position
| on copyright and then ridiculously claiming
| that file sharers were undermining
| humanitarian aid in Haiti (despite neither
| being even close to true), now it's
| resorted to using simplistic fables to try
| to demonize file sharing. Perhaps it's part
| of the RIAA's propaganda campaign for
| school children, but in a recent blog post,
| RIAA VP Joshua Friedlander compared the
| file sharing situation to the children's
| fable Nobody Stole the Pie by Sonia Levitin
| (by the way, you would think that the RIAA,
| so concerned about content creators getting
| paid would at least provide a link to
| information about that book so you could
| buy it if you wanted to -- but we'll fix
| that omission for the RIAA).
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100305/1843348448.shtml
And of course "pirates in Somalia" compared to file sharers by the RIAA (exploiting tragedy).
Did Ok Go Free Itself From EMI?
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| This was the same point that was made back
| last year by someone from Billboard in
| dismissing online viral sensations as being
| unimportant for "real" sales. But, as the
| band itself noted, the success of the video
| brought out huge crowds and made the band
| quite profitable to the label. This is the
| problem you run into when you only think
| about the music industry as if "album
| sales" are everything. Selling music
| directly is not a very good business model,
| and focusing on how many album sales there
| are totally misses the mark these days.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100309/2322198491.shtml
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