It’s funny how varied music artists are some artists seem to get and embrace the Internet and others seem to be at war with it. According to this article on Ars Technica, Metallica doesn’t care what anyone says about their music or at least not music fans who write blogs. Apparently they released some rough [...]

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Today a story hit the front page of Slashdot about Matthew Newhall who posted a draft of his novel on the web in late 2005. Eventually it was downloaded over 6000 time and edited by his readers. The book, “Thicker than Blood” is still downloadable under Creative Commons but for sale at Lulu.com (a [...]

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Do you know what Moore’s, Metcalfe’s,and Reed’s Law are and how they are related? Have your read Wealth of Networks, Democratizing Innovation, Free Culture, The Long Tail, and Small is the New Big? Find out why in this excellent video of Paul Jones talk to TriLug last month. Do you know that iBiblio that hosts [...]

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When I write a blog post I often look for an illustration to make my point, I am not a photographer or artist so I have to look for images that are available for free. That often means going through Flickr doing a search for Creative Commons licensed photos. Today I took a look at [...]

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This paper,”Infringement Nation: Copyright Reform and the Law/Norm Gap” by John Tehranian discusses the problem with copyright especially in light of the pervasive use of the Internet. The premise:
As the rapid pace of technological change continues to force a reconsideration of the vitality of our intellectual property regime, it is tempting indeed to cite the
“communications [...]

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