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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.

The Commons, Individuality, Fundamentalism And Our Evolutionary Challenge The Commons is everything that a community shares. Usually it refers to natural resources like land, air and water. But it is most usefully extended to all things we share, from culture to ideas to security to DNA. It can be viewed ... read more | cat.: Intellectual Property | Link Robin Good -- June 26

What Do You See Ahead? Seven Questions To Robin Good About Present And Future In Education, Communication Technologies And The Arts I am taking the opportunity of some kind of intangible relaxed universe I have just entered in my life, to take back up some mini-projects I had been sitting on for a while. This one in particular, wins the time-record for sitting on it. My good friend ... read more | cat.: Intellectual Property | Link Robin Good -- June 20

Why DRM Is Bad For Society: A Briefing For Microsoft 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 written ... read more | cat.: Intellectual Property | Link | Comment Robin Good -- June 19

Independent Newsmakers Make Italy Think Again 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 | cat.: Intellectual Property | Link Robin Good -- June 2

Standards: Do We Really Need Them? I have decided to write this article because I became gradually interested with online collaboration technologies and with their ability and potential to influence and shape the kind of future we are going to be living in. I am not certainly a specialist in the field of ... read more | cat.: Intellectual Property | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 26

Must-Have RSS Newsfeed For Communication Experts I have just finished testing a new RSS newsfeed that I have created for all of you, communication experts in need of staying up-to-date with cutting-edge and cost-effective tools, ideas and resources that can make a difference when looking for a sound communication strategy or solution. The ... read more | cat.: Intellectual Property | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 9

Personal Knowledge Mapping And The Concept Of Data Emergence Once upon a time, in a far-away land, there was an advanced civilization of intelligent beings who wanted to be able to share their personal know-how, preferences, ideas and visions with those others that were set to work and collaborate with them. Tired of spending millions of ... read more | cat.: Intellectual Property | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 28

Alternative Scheme Supports Creative Artists Through Refundable Tax The institution of copyrights has its origins in the feudal guild system. Copyrights provide an incentive for creative or artistic work by providing a state-enforced monopoly. Like any other monopoly, this system leads to enormous inefficiencies, and creates substantial enforcement problems. The size of these inefficiencies ... read more | cat.: Intellectual Property | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 27

Virtual Properties' Rights? Who Owns Your Creations In Cyberspace? Creative licensing for massive multiplayer online games At a conference focused on video games and the law presented jointly by the law schools of NYU and Yale, the legal grey area of intellectual property and ownership of in-game items by participants has been examined by numerous presenters. ... read more | cat.: Intellectual Property | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 18

DRM Lock-In Reminder Of Potential Damaging Security Risks "Incompatible anticopying technologies known as digital rights management (DRM) are being applied to everything from music files to Microsoft Word documents, and the lack of rules that can make these schemes work together is increasingly prompting calls for a standards revolution. The problem, critics say, is ... read more | cat.: Intellectual Property | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 7

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