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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Monopolists of the Genetic Code?
Last week, Craig Venter created a media frenzy – and a frenzy of bioethical hand-wringing – when he announced the creation of the first “synthetic cell.” In reality, › Continue reading
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
Good News/Bad News
My new Financial Times column on the Obama Administration’s copyright policy just came out.. › Continue reading
Paperback Edition Published
Its not supposed to be out ’til Jan 25th, but I just looked on Amazon and, fittingly, given that it is Public Domain Day, the paperback edition of my book is now available. But if $12 is too much, remember you can always download it for free.
Happy Public Domain Day!!
“Public Domain Day. January 1st every year. If you live in Europe, January 1st 2010 would be the day when the works of Freud and Yeats and hundreds of other authors ranging from Havelock Ellis to Zane Grey emerge into the public domain — where they are freely available for anyone to use, republish, translate or transform. › Continue reading
Fahrenheit 451… Book burning as done by lawyers
In Ray Bradbury’s 1953 classic, Fahrenheit 451, a “fireman” is a man who burns books “for the good of humanity.” Written at the height of the Cold War, the book paints a shockingly dystopian picture of a culture at war with its own printed record, one deeply infused by Bradbury’s love of books. › Continue reading
Yochai Benkler
Yochai Benkler’s The Wealth of Networks is the best book about the economics of an information society and the ways that peer production can transform some of our basic economic assumptions. › Continue reading
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