How the U.S. is Controlling the Internet
Must-see AlJazeera documentary. From SOPA that was brought down by the Internet public, only to be followed-up by CISPA, an […]
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Portuguese Law Draft on the Sharing Licence
The Communist Party of Portugal has proposed a law on legalizing file-sharing in exchange for a levy: Partido Communista Portuguguês […]
Read moreSharing: Culture and the Economy in the Internet Age
Philippe Aigrain, Sharing: Culture and the Economy in the Internet Age, Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2012, ISBN 9789089643858, Rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ […]
Read moreNo Disconnect! SOPA dead … for now.
Three days before a protest blackout of major Internet sites including Wikipedia, SOPA’s main sponsor Eric Cantor announced that he […]
Read moreGuttenberg is back
After the depths of the plagiarism scandal leading to his ousting as German Minister of Defense, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg moved […]
Read moreLiMux: Munich goes Free Software
Munich’s LiMux project announced that on 12.12.2011 the 9,000th PC workstation in the city’s administration was migrated to the new […]
Read morePostcolonial Piracy, 2-4 December 2011, Berlin
In the economic South, access to global flows of goods, technology and ideas increasingly occurs through a culture of piracy […]
Read moreEU: Copyright on sound recordings extended from 50 to 70 years
BBC News reports on 12 September 2011: Rock veterans win copyright fight. On Monday, the EU Council voted to extend […]
Read moreThe Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest
The multi-stakeholder Global Congress, convened in Washington, DC on 25-27 August 2011, issued The Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property and […]
Read more"Open Content Licensing. From Theory to Practice" Launched
Just off the press: Lucie Guibault, Christina Angelopoulos (eds.), Open Content Licensing. From Theory to Practice, Amsterdam University Press 2011. […]
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