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

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

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

Podcast here.  Video below. › read more

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

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.

(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