In what can only be described as an epic PR fail for the copyright industry, they have threatened the parents of the most successful…
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History of Copyright, part 5: Moral Rights
In the late 1800s, the publishers’ ever-strengthening copyright monopoly had lopsided the creators’ chances of making any revenue off of their works. Basically, all…
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Future Market Value of Voice, Storage: Exactly €0
The ongoing debate on net neutrality among mobile phone carriers is amazing, and shows just how nonfunctioning that market is. I’m referring to whether…
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Sweden To Enforce Net Neutrality, Kinda
Swedish public-service television just reported that the cabinet will put forward a law proposal tomorrow intended to put an end to the practice of…
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Today, Spain voted for net censorship
Today, February 9, the Spanish senate will vote on voted for the so-called Ley Sinde (“Sinde law”) which allows executive tribunals to summarily withdraw…
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History of Copyright, part 4: The US and Libraries
When the United States was founded, the concept of monopolies on ideas was carried to the New World and debated intensely. Thomas Jefferson was…
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Copyright as a Fundamentalist Religion
An advantage of doing a lot of original research on copyright, and the history of copyright in particular, is that you start seeing very…
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History of Copyright, part 3: The Monopoly Dies – And Rises
After Bloody Mary had enacted the copyright censorship monopoly in 1557, neither the profitable industry guild nor the censoring Crown had any desire to…
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