Intellectual Property - Articles Archive
from November 21, 2005 to May 11, 2004

As reported by Slashdot contributor "timothy", Microsoft has been seeking a patent for early childhood education that focuses around the ability for a system to provide appropriate feedback to an unstructured user response. More precisely, the Microsoft invention, is a system and method for accepting unstructured input ... read more

While the Creative Commons (CC) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) are doing a hell of a great job in trying to counterbalance the restrictive actions imposed and brought forward by the music and movie industries, very few young people are following or are even aware ... read more

According to an article by eWeek dated Friday Nov. 5th 2004, Microsoft appears to be claiming intellectual property rights on over 130 Internet protocols that make up the very core of the Internet infrastructure. These protocols include for example TCP/IP and the DNS system. The story emerged ... read more

ConferencingNews.com publisher John Rourke has written me to manifest his dismay caused by my having announced the creation of a free RSS newsfeed for the aggregated news headlines published on ConferencingNews.com home page. In a public comment to my post informing readers about the availability of these ... read more

"Publishers are dinosaurs running out of oxygen. Everyone seems to think that art comes from publishers, and if publishers are finding things hard, well let's all chip in (with an Internet tax) and divvy the money up among the publishers according to their output. Forget the publishers ... read more

Industries leaders re-iterate their well known general resistance to open standards, rightly calling into the issue of the often too slow and bureaucratic process that official standards bodies require. "What's to gain by subjecting already popular technologies to a long, sometimes painful standards process?" There are ... read more

"The less conscious we become of The Commons, the less real it becomes, the less we care about it and for it, the more threatened our lives become. As the Commons degrades, individual suffering begins to increase, but we may only see that as INDIVIDUAL suffering, ... read more

Common space itself is under assault, from noise, development, and commercial importuning. Giant Coke bottles that now stand atop the storied left field wall in Boston's Fenway Park are more than an advertisement. They're a symbol of dominance - a kind that extends to virtually every ... read more

If you are an online publisher you are certainly aware of issues surrounding the use of images and other copyrighted content on your Web site. Though I have long been pointing at initiatives such as the Creative Commons, Stock Exchange and a few other resources to ... read more

If you want to understand why copyright issues and the focus on digital rights management has created so much fuss and such a clear stand-off of end users to the future secure content distribution strategy heralded by Microsoft this is an absolute must-read. This is the ... read more

Pressed by public opinion, the independent media and a large number of online journalists, reporters and independent thinkers, the Italian Government has finally decided to modify the draconic laws it had just passed that criminalized anyone caught with the evidence of downloaded copyrighted material from the ... read more

Mandrakesoft, a major Linux software distributor has issued an alert through its newsletter in which it informs all its users and the software community at large about a recent clandestine attack by proprietary interests through covert adoption of EU Software Patent Legislation. In direct contravention of ... read more

"How might an independent thinker work on personal projects they share with others for free, while building relationships towards work for pay?" An Economy For Giving Everything Away is a 2002 proposal that describes how we can build relationships through work that we do for ourselves, ... read more