The Hargreaves Review of British intellectual property policy is to be published this morning.. and as you will see, the leaks were as misleading as they were revealing….. My Financial Times column follows…
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EFF Party in San Francisco!
On November 8th, Cory Doctorow, John Perry Barlow, and numerous other digital luminaries will be gathering at the Minna Gallery in San Francisco for the EFF’s Pioneer Awards Party. Cory is going to be the MC and — when not featured on XKCD blogging from a ballon in a red cape and goggles… › Continue reading
Net Neutrality Debate
Great hour long radio show on net neutrality from NPR’s The State of Things. Me, the inimitable Paul Jones of iBiblio, and Ryan Radia of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Frank Stasio is just a great interviewer. Listen to it here. › Continue reading
Op Art Comic in todays SF Chronicle
We have a centerfold Op Art comic on “Copyright’s Futures” in today’s San Francisco Chronicle. The comic is › Continue reading
Why I Miss Justice Blackmun…
This isn’t a post about intellectual property or the networked society, so if your interests only run that far, cease reading here. In the late 80’s and early 90’s refugees were attempting to escape what was, in a decidedly non metaphorical sense, a hellish situation in Haiti.. › Continue reading
Why We Need a Digital Civil Society
Nitya Rajan interviewed me at Orgcon about why the legislative process malfunctions particularly badly on digital policy, and what the creation of civil society groups could do to fix that. Video after the jump. › Continue reading
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
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