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Intellectual property issues, copyright, the commons, file sharing, digital rights management. Issues and initiatives that while nominally intervening in support of the defense intellectual property, stifle innovation without giving opportunities to new players and ideas to enter the market. Tools, resources and ideas supporting alternative copyright licensing schemes such as the Creative Commons.







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    Context Rights: Why Content Publishers Need To Abandon The Copyright Licensing Paradigm



    Traditional content publishers, those who have yet to embrace and understand fully the logic of the web, have been utilizing their legal arms and small army of lawyers to fight, discourage and destroy anything that appeared as a slightly moving object in their trajectory toward total ...
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    John Blossom - Shore -- May 9




    Content Monetization And Social Media: Marketing Partners Or Distribution Enemies?



    Monetization and business opportunities for online content publishers are increasing and opening up new alternative ways to do well in the online professional web publishing space. Unfortunately, most publishers, bloggers, and now even my favorite content business analyst, John Blossom, see things from a rather limited ...
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    John Blossom - Shore -- May 2




    Duplicate Content Online: Issues, Problems and Good Things



    Duplicate content: is it an issue you need to worry about? Whether you are on the side of those publishing content that is duplicated on other sites or on the side of those republishing contributing authors content on yours, it is important to understand what are ...
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    Robin Good -- March 18





    The Music Business As Seen From The Inside: Ty Roberts, Gracenote CTO Interviewed



    A few days ago I had the opportunity to meet briefly with Ty Roberts, CTO of Gracenote, a company which you may have not heard of, but which has already helped you thousands of times play and identify your music collection titles and artists on your ...
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    Robin Good -- February 14




    Video Publishing: Fair Use and Copyright Analyzed - Recut, Reframe, Recycle



    Where does fair use end and where does copyright infringement start? The use of video to create documentaries, remixes and video mashups is undergoing lots of scrutiny and evaluation by those in charge of regulating what and what can't be freely published as well as the ...
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    The Center for Social Media - The Center for Social Media -- January 25




    Internet Television And The Need For Open Standards: Open Internet Television - A Letter to CES



    Open internet television: a grassroots dream or a collaborative effort for a greater good toward which we can all work? This is the question that Jeremy Allaire and Adam Berry of Brightcove ask publicly in this open letter they have released for the Consumer Electronic Show ...
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    Jeremy Allaire and Adam Berrey - Brightcove -- January 9




    Peer-to-Peer Governance, Democracy And Economic Vision: P2P As A Way Of Living - Part 2



    "Our current political economy is based on a fundamental mistake. It is based on the assumption that natural resources are unlimited, and that it is an endless sink. Photo credit: Maxim Malevich This false assumption creates artificial scarcity for potentially abundant cultural resources. This combination of quasi-abundance ...
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    Michel Bauwens - P2P Foundation -- October 27




    How To Manage Copyrighted Content Across Social Media Outlets



    How do you manage copyrighted materials posted to social media outlets? The recently published UGCP principles document suggests to online social media sites to adopt whatever technology may provide a best fit solution to place a limit on the amount of infringing materials being posted to ...
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    John Blossom - Shore -- October 26





    Peer-to-Peer Governance, Production And Property: P2P As A Way Of Living - Part 1



    Markets may be changing from a logic of pure capitalism (making commodities for exchange, so as to increase capital), to logics where the logic of exchange is subsumed to the logic of partnership. Photo credit: Maxim Malevich There is now a thriving field of social cooperation, which ...
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    Michel Bauwens -- October 20




    Music Publishing: Make Your Music Profitable By Leveraging Events Context And Relationships



    As music sells increasingly more through concerts than through CDs, content superstars, like Madonna and the Rolling Stones, show that serious revenues can be built around events, without music publishers, record companies or labels and without the need to push pricey locked CDs to your own ...
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    John Blossom - Shore -- October 14





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