Intellectual Property and Freedom
In the News:
- Rufus Pollock, Cambridge
University, has an interesting
range of interests including a paper on the optimal length of copyrights.
- This
is the paper: Forever Minus a Day? Some Theroy and Empirics of Optimal Copyright
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Blog entry about Optimal copyright term. The answer is 14 years, again.
- A blog entry from
Project Gutenbert founder Michael Hart.
- A
Wired story by Katie Dean about Ipac.
- Economist
article about patent reform
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Linux Weekly News article
with references to the
Committee for Economic Development
report on copyright
- A
article by Russell McOrmond about who patents should protect
- Prospect Magazine article about Open Source in non-computer areas
- Register
article about MS patent enforcement
- FFII: Software Patents in Europe
- Linux Journal
editorial about the Media, the Web, and freedom
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An editorial by Matthew Baldwin in the Morning News discussing benifits
of copyright expriation to the movie studios
- Open Format Data Format web site
- CNET News.com article about the DVD copying trial
- Infowrold article about software patents in the EU
- Syllabus article about efforts to transfer books to the web.
- Time-Out-NY
magazine article about projects to preserve pre-1923 works and the adverse
affects of extended copyright on post-1923 works.
- Econlib Russell Roberts interview with Lawrence Lessig about the economics of copyright
- Slate Magazine article about the
sales volume of public domain classics
- A Forbes article by Gary
L. Reback about the cost, to society, of patents
- An article in Reason
Online by Douglas Clement titled:
Creation Myths
Does innovation require intellectual property rights?
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Embrace file sharing: a Salon article by John Snyder,
president of Artist House Records
and a board member of the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS)
- Andreas Pour on Open Source Software and IP
- From the Economists: Copyrights - a radical rethink
- An Inforworld interview with John Perry Barlow, the EFF founder
- Do lawyers, strictly enforcing copyright law, hurt business?
- cnet.com interview with Robin Gross about new international IP rights group
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