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Bookmark Why so much of the world runs on counterfeit software - The…
LAGOS — Adegunji Kazeem vividly remembers the day his life fell apart. It was December 4, 2019. Kazeem was a final-year student at the University of Lagos and writing his undergraduate…

July 10 2023, 2:52am | Comments
Bookmark In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-hub
In Antoine de Saint Exupéry's tale the Little Prince meets a businessman who accumulates stars with the sole purpose of being able to buy more stars. The Little Prince is perplexed.…

June 16 2020, 5:13pm | Comments
Syllabus Cache Announcing a National Emergency Library to Provide Digitized Books to…
To address our unprecedented global and immediate need for access to reading and research materials, as of today, March 24, 2020, the Internet Archive will suspend waitlists for the 1.

March 26 2020, 5:21am | Comments
Vimeo

September 26 2013, 6:59am | Comments
Twitter Favourites
Art in the Era of the Internet (and Why Open Education Matters)

March 29 2012, 1:35am | Comments
Bookmark What Immanuel Kant got right about digital piracy
It turns out that Kant didn't think that an author could mount a strong legal case against piracy based on property rights in words. After all, even after pirates copied an…

January 30 2012, 4:28pm | Comments
Twitter Favourites
Internet Regulation & the Economics of Piracy

January 19 2012, 7:08am | Comments
Bookmark Kopimism: the world's newest religion explained
Isak Gerson is spiritual leader of the world's newest religion, Kopimism, devoted to file-sharing. On 5 January the Church of Kopimism was formally recognised as a religion by the Swedish government.…

January 15 2012, 1:32pm | Comments
Wikipedia Trap street A trap street is a fictitious entry in the form of a misrepresented street on a map, often outside the area the map nominally covers, for the purpose of "trapping" potential copyright violators of the map, who will be unable to justify the…

October 16 2011, 9:10am | Comments
Bookmark Information Wants to be Consumed
Although information spreads, virus-like, through replication, this replication, as Walter Benjamin foresaw, involves a dispersion that allows images or data to be seen in different places, in different contexts (what Benjamin…

August 3 2011, 6:00am | Comments
Bookmark The Men Who Stole the World
A decade ago, four young men changed the way the world works. They did this not with laws or guns or money but with software: they had radical, disruptive ideas, which…

December 1 2010, 4:22am | Comments
YouTube

November 10 2010, 5:19am | Comments
Bookmark In Praise of Copying: Get Your Free Copy
Just a quick fyi: If you head over to the Harvard University Press web site, you can grab a free copy of Marcus Boon’s new book, In Praise of Copying, which…

November 3 2010, 8:26am | Comments
Bookmark Radio Open Source » The Ecstasy of Influence
We can’t stop talking about Jonathan Lethem’s essay in this month’s Harper’s. If you haven’t read it, you really should. Nothing that follows in this post will be nearly as interesting.…

May 29 2010, 2:01am | Comments
Bookmark The ecstasy of influence: A plagiarism, By Jonathan Lethem (Harper's Magazine)
Consider this tale: a cultivated man of middle age looks back on the story of an amour fou, one beginning when, traveling abroad, he takes a room as a lodger. The…

May 29 2010, 2:00am | Comments
Bookmark Publishing: The Revolutionary Future
Though Gutenberg's invention made possible our modern world with all its wonders and woes, no one, much less Gutenberg himself, could have foreseen that his press would have this effect. And…

February 24 2010, 9:51am | Comments
Bookmark Code is Law
Every age has its potential regulator, its threat to liberty. Our founders feared a newly empowered federal government; the Constitution is written against that fear. John Stuart Mill worried about the…

February 7 2010, 9:20am | Comments
Bookmark For The Love Of Culture
In early 2002, the filmmaker Grace Guggenheim--the daughter of the late Charles Guggenheim, one of America’s greatest documentarians, and the sister of the filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, who made An Inconvenient Truth-decided…

January 27 2010, 2:17pm | Comments
Bookmark GOOD COPY BAD COPY
A documentary about the current state of copyright and culture

September 14 2009, 3:17am | Comments
Bookmark Dual Perspectives Article
Not long ago mass media was about the only kind of culture there was. The lucky few creative works that made it into general circulation were what copyright law was supposed…

June 16 2009, 3:08pm | Comments

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