Who Steals the Gene from Off the Common

My new Financial Times column on the creation of a science commons is now up.  For the ungated version, read on… › Continue reading

What if the Web Really Worked For Science?

Here is the video of my speech in Vienna at the IRF symposium.  The title was What If the Web Really Worked for Science? Reimagining Data Policy and Intellectual Property.

Is Google Naive, Crafty or Stupid?

I just started writing a column for the Huffington Post.  (I will still be writing for the FT.)  My first column is on the Google-Verizon announcement.  Not the “what” but the “why?” › Continue reading

Video of ORGCON keynote

The Open Rights Group held its first big conference — ORGCON — in London last month and I was really honoured to give the keynote.  The Twitter cascade behind me, however, › Continue reading

Er… Bigfoot? Really?

If one gets a lot of e-mail, one will eventually get very strange e-mail, but there is a frontier; an event horizon of bizarreness, that one doesn’t expect to be surpassed.  But life is richer than that. › Continue reading

Monopolists of the Genetic Code?

Public Lectures in Lisbon and Florence

Colleagues at Catolica University in Lisbon and the European University Institute in Florence have very kindly asked me to give lectures next week on “Cultural Agoraphobia” › Continue reading

NPR’s “On The Media” Interview: The Birthday of ©

Brooke Gladstone of On the Media interviews me about the birth, change and metastasis of copyright; › Continue reading

The Next Bad Thing?

What if you could own the facts of the news?…..  Would that save the news industry? › Continue reading

Update — FT article full text

Some of you report difficulties getting access to my FT piece. Thankfully, the FT agrees to let me keep copyright in my articles   › Continue reading