A really excellent piece from Steven Poole on intellectual property, writing and the concept of “free”. As people on the internet say, OTM!
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neilstewart
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Meg Kribble
Who owns JK Rowling’s invented words? The same people who own Shakespeare’s and Milton’s and Gibson’s and Joyce’s and…says this fun Times article.
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neilstewart
Inner Temple have covered this, but I think it’s worth flagging in its own right- Outlaw are reportingthat the music industry are lobbying for a tax on MP3 players, to “compensate” for losses incurred by the transfer of CDs to MP3. All redolent of the Home Taping is Killing Music campaign waged by the music industry in the eighties.
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lo-fi
BL Survey: 93% of UK researchers say: “access to online research material should be the same as for books”
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iOverlord
The Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) has announced that it will shortly be launching a series of new collective digital licences that will permit copying from digital publications, subject to clear restrictions and guidelines, as well as limited the photocopying and scanning of such publications - I missed this last week.
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connie
New idea: donating your intellectual property to the public domain upon your death. See - Becoming an intellectual property donor
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jenenifer
Penguin to offer DRM free audiobooks - pretty exciting stuff. Thank goodness some publishers are starting to realise that DRM just doesn’t work
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connie
Nebraska Library Commission starts to include Creative Commons licensed editions of books in its catalogue. Story picked up by Boing Boing (and see discussion in comments). Kudos to Michael Sauers!
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neilstewart
The Open Rights Group reports on the second reading of a Private Members Bill that will extend copyright terms to a whopping 95 years. The ORG urges people to write to their MPs to protest against this.
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neilstewart
This Kevin Kelly article on the internet as copier and the implications for the economic value of culture has been doing the rounds, but is well worth a read.
