Today, I have a column on TorrentFreak elaborating a bit about why the lawyers working for the copyright monopoly shouldn’t also be the ones…
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European Court of Justice To Outlaw Internet Filtering; Esp. For Copyright Enforcement
Today, the European Court of Justice gave a preliminary opinion that will have far-reaching implications in the fight against overaggressive copyright monopoly abusers. It…
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Impressions from a Country Without Copyright
I just left Share Conference in Belgrade, Serbia. The conference was top notch — 80 speakers, 50 bands, three days, three nights. Very laid…
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The Library of Alexandria 2.0
In ancient times, there was a library in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. Over the centuries, it had built a collection of all of…
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Radical Copyright Reform Only Chance For The Copyright Monopoly To Survive At All
WIPO is concerned at the lack of respect for copyright. At the same time, they dismiss the views of the Pirate Party as “extremist”….
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An Alternative to Pharmaceutical Patents
It has been previously established that the pharmaceutical industry is the only industry gaining from the patent system at all. For all other industries,…
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An Internet Levy is a Terrible Idea
The notion that all Internet users should somehow pay the old copyright monopoly structures a monthly fee, to compensate them for file sharing, has…
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Column: The Revolution Will Not Be Properly Licensed
Today, I have a column on TorrentFreak titled “The Revolution Will Not Be Properly Licensed“. If you like it, please Digg it! That’s really…
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An Important Dent In The Copyright Monopoly
Yesterday, the Legal Affairs Committee in the European Parliament voted unanimously to introduce an exception to the copyright monopoly to benefit the public at…
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Swedish MFA Cracking Down On Net
Sweden’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Bildt, has an op-ed piece today in the printed newspaper Expressen where he criticizes some of Sweden’s most…
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