• ‘Til All Are One » What if… Windows went open source?
  Microsoft’s ’shared source’ programme. In this state, you must sign a restrictive NDA to see the code, and after that your mind is forever tainted with Microsoft’s intellectual property. Write anything even remotely similar to the code you were deigned to see, and you leave yourself open to litigation. In other words, taking part in shared source is a sure-fire way to torpedo your career in software.
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• A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection
  A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection (tags: windows, software, business, copyright)
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• A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn’t Its Copyright? - New York Times
  No one except perhaps Hamilton or Franklin might have imagined that services and intellectual property would become primary fields of endeavor and the chief engines of the economy. Now they are, and it is no more rational to deny them equal status than it would have been to confiscate farms, ropewalks and other forms of property in the 18th century.
  No good case exists for the inequality of real and intellectual property, because no good case can exist for treating with special disfavor the work of the spirit and the mind.
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• A Legal Issues Primer for Open Source and Free Software Projects - Software Freedom Law Center
  Our intended audience for this Primer is any person interested in a basic understanding of the legal issues that impact FOSS development and distribution.
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• Against perpetual copyright - Lessig Wiki
  Copyright in the United States was created for one purpose only: To Promote the Progress of Science of the Useful Arts. That is the definition of Public Good with regard to copyright. In exchange for this Public Good, this promotion of the Useful Arts and Sciences, Congress is granted the authority to grant authors exclusive rights for a limited time to the authors.
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• Apple - Thoughts on Music
  Apple - Thoughts on Music (tags: music, apple, copyright, technology, law)
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• Copy a CD, owe $1.5 million under "gluttonous" PRO-IP Act
  The industries pushing it (music, especially) have an "unslakable lust for more and more rights, longer terms of protection, draconian criminal provisions, and civil damages that bear no resemblance to the damages suffered,"
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• Economist.com - Criminalising the consumer: Where digital rights went wrong
  Belatedly, music executives have come to realise that DRM simply doesn’t work. It is supposed to stop unauthorised copying, but no copy-protection system has yet been devised that cannot be easily defeated. All it does is make life difficult for paying customers, while having little or no effect on clandestine copying plants that churn out pirate copies.
  Where digital rights went wrong
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• Edge: BETTER THAN FREE By Kevin Kelly
  I see roughly eight categories of intangible value that we buy when we pay for something that could be free. In a real sense, these are eight things that are better than free. Eight uncopyable values. I call them "generatives." A generative value is a quality or attribute that must be generated, grown, cultivated, nurtured. A generative thing can not be copied, cloned, faked, replicated, counterfeited, or reproduced. It is generated uniquely, in place, over time. In the digital arena, generative qualities add value to free copies, and therefore are something that can be sold.
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• GOOD COPY BAD COPY
  A documentary about the current state of copyright and culture. Denmark, 2007
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• Info 205 Information Law and Policy (Three Day Delay)
  Law is one of a number of policies that mediates the tension between free flow and restrictions on the flow of information. This course introduces students to copyright and other forms of legal protection for databases, licensing of information, consumer protection, liability for insecure systems and defective information, privacy, and national and international information policy.
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• Institutional Entrepreneurs
  Institutional Entrepreneurs (tags: work, open source, business, research, copyright)
  Institutional Entrepreneurs
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• Micky Mouse vs Mickey Mouse - Boing Boing
  This eBay auction for a rare 1920s "Micky" Mouse toy from the Performo-Toy Company includes an article that looks into the possibility that Disney cheated the Performo-Toy Company out of the character.
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• Oikeuden edessä» Blog Archive » Finnish court rules CSS protection used in DVDs “ineffective”
  In an unanimous decision released today, Helsinki District Court ruled that Content Scrambling System (CSS) used in DVD movies is “ineffective”. The decision is the first in Europe to interpret new copyright law amendments that ban the circumvention of “effective technological measures”.
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• restricting growth: I want to sing to myself.
  If I wrote a song myself and recorded it onto CD I am forbidden from playing that CD in public, without written permission from me to play it so. The written permission must be from the publisher. Do you see a pattern here? Is the producer (not publisher, this is the singer, author or actor) indentured, and the customer ignored.
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• Sharing medical software: FOSS licensing in medicine | Free Software Magazine
  How does License Proliferation effect medical software and what can we do about it? How to choose a license for your medical software project? What are the implications for the medical FOSS community of various software licenses? This is intended to be a complete guide to free and open source software licensing for medical software.
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• TED | Talks | Yochai Benkler: Open-source economics (video)
  Law professor Yochai Benkler explains how collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Linux represent the next stage of human organization. By disrupting traditional economic production, copyright law and established competition, they're paving the way for
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