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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How to Penetrate ANY Company or Agency
Penetrating an organization’s shell security and accessing its internal data, quite possibly permanently and with the capability to taint or poison it, is ridiculously…
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History of Copyright, part 2: Bloody Mary
On May 23, Mary was formally declared a bastard by the archbishop. Her mother, Catherine, who was a catholic and the Pope’s protegé, had…
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History of Copyright, part 1: Black Death
In this seven-part series, I will look at the history of copyright from 1350 until present day. The story of the history books differs…
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How shall the artists get paid?
One of the most common questions I get, and quite likely the most irrelevant, is “how shall the artists get paid?” in a scenario…
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Not Rocket Science: Same Laws Online, Offline
What the Pirate Party demands isn’t rocket science. We are demanding an end to the Wild West treatment of the Internet. We are demanding…
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Copyright is a Limitation of Property Rights
Copyright is not a property right. It is a limitation of property rights. Copyright is a government-sanctioned private monopoly that limits what people may…
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