copyright

If you're familiar with the work of Lawrence Lessig, you'll recognize the formula James Boyle follows in his latest book, "The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind". It goes something like this:  Read More »

It's been a particularly active month in the four year saga of the Recording Industry Association of America's legal assault on direct copyright infringers.  Read More »

Yesterday morning, Nicole and I had the pleasure of attending The Georgetown University Libraries Scholarly Communication Team's fifth symposium, Scholarly Communication and the Web: Creation and Collaboration. An impressive panel, moderated by William Olsen, discussed their groundbreaking integrations and interactions with digital media in their respective fields.  Read More »

Just a quick note to draw attention to a very curious intellectual property issue that has come up at Harvard recently.

In a collaborative op-ed posted today in the Harvard Crimson, I read about a student who was asked to leave the Coop, Harvard's bookstore. His offense? Writing down the values of price tags for his textbooks. The bookstore claimed that he was violating their intellectual property rights.  Read More »

“There is no absolute way to prevent people from copying the digital versions of your text, your music, your movie, or your data. If a computer will interpret the data and let someone use it, then that same computer can be programmed to grab the data and make a copy of it. The flexibility and programmability of these machines are a double-edged sword.  Read More »