Twitter

I am a terrible poster boy for web 2.0 — I’ve spent a lot more time working to protect it than actually using it.  But recent experiences giving a lecture in Britain convinced me that Twitter really could be useful so I decided to take the plunge.  I am now “thepublicdomain” http://twitter.com/thepublicdomain › read more

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 Uncategorized No Comments

Shakespeare Debate

I am on Radio West today, talking about a subject far from intellectual property — the authorship of Shakespeare’s works, the subject of a novel that I wrote two years ago, called The Shakespeare Chronicles› read more

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 Uncategorized No Comments

Obama in Cyberspace

There have been some hiccups with the accessibility of my new Financial Times column.. which (ironically) is about accessibility.. Here it is.. › read more

Thursday, June 18th, 2009 Uncategorized 6 Comments

The Public Domain wins Donald McGannon Award

I was zooming through my inbox in a deleting frenzy, discarding winsome offers from Russian ingenues, fabulous commercial opportunities in the Nigerian oil business and hundreds of prizes that I had apparently won without entering.  The next e-mail was another “Congratulations — You have won..” › read more

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 Uncategorized No Comments

Videos from Open Innovation Conference at NESTA

Britain’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) had a conference last week on open innovation in culture and science.  I got to set the stage but the other talks… › read more

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 Creative Commons, Culture, Science Commons, Uncategorized, Video No Comments

What the “Information Superhighways” aren’t built of..

My latest article at the Financial Times makes the case that, when it comes to technology policy in the “stimulus package,” fetishism and reification rule the day… › read more

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 Uncategorized No Comments

RSA Lecture & Podcast

Podcast here.  Video below. › read more

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 Uncategorized No Comments

Kutiman, Spark & CBC

I had fun talking to Nora Young of CBC’s radio show Spark on a show that also featured supreme Remixer, Kutiman.

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 Uncategorized No Comments

Duke U.P. Edition of Comic Book

You can see a slideshow of the new, expanded Duke University Press Edition of Bound by Law — my graphic novel introduction to fair use — here.  There are new introductions by Davis Guggenheim, Oscar Award winning director of “An Inconvenient Truth” and by Cory Doctorow.   You can buy it here.  Or read the earlier version on Kindle.

Monday, April 6th, 2009 Uncategorized No Comments

CC By(e Bye)

(Reader Attention Conservation Warning…This is a self-indulgent post, written as a diary entry as much as anything else…  If you want to know what Creative Commons is, you can read this.) Tomorrow I finish my year’s term as Creative Commons Board Chair and step down from the board… › read more

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 Creative Commons, Science Commons, science 5 Comments

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