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Future of Intellectual Protectionism and not much Innovation Policy

I read all of the pieces selected for a „Future of copyright” anthology resulting from a contest run by the Modern Poland Foundation (apparently the winner of a small cash prize will be announced...

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Realize Document Freedom Day

Open formats and open standards are excellent causes, but without free/open source software implementations and widespread adoption thereof, the causes are uphill battles, at best. So I’m appalled that...

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Why DRM in HTML5 and what to do about it

Kẏra writes Don’t let the myths fool you: the W3C’s plan for DRM in HTML5 is a betrayal to all Web users. Agreed, but what to do about it? In the short term, the solution is to convince W3C that moving...

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A “kill hollyweb” plan

May 3 is the Day Against DRM (Digital Restrictions Management). Please sign the petition against DRM in the HTML5 standard. Then come back and read this post. Recently I wrote in Why DRM in HTML5 and...

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Flow ∨ incentive 2013 anthology winner

The Futureof Copyright 2.0 contest has a winner, published with 8 other top entries. Read the anthology PDF/EPUB/MOBI ebook, listen to an audiobook version created by me reading each entry (for the...

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Pro-DRM stories

Microsoft Thinks DRM Can Solve the Privacy Problem: Under the model imagined by Mundie, applications and services that wanted to make use of sensitive data, such as a person’s genome sequence or...

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5 fantasy Internet Archive announcements

Speaking of public benefit spaces on the internet, tonight the Internet Archive is having its annual celebration and announcements event. It’s a top contender for the long-term most important site on...

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[Semi]Commons Coordinations & Copyright Choices 4.0

CC0 is superior to any of the Creative Commons (CC) 4.0 licenses, because CC0 represents a superior policy (public domain). But if you’re unable or unwilling to upgrade to CC0, the CC 4.0 licenses are...

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The framing is wrong, harmful, and anti-democratic

Luis Villa’s points are so well put that I just had to copy and blog immediately. The specific context is not needed for the points are apropos to nearly all contemporary info policy discourse — recall...

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copyleft.org

Last month the Free Software Foundation and Software Freedom Conservancy launched copyleft.org, “a collaborative project to create and disseminate useful information, tutorial material, and new policy...

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