Richard Stallman came to Vancouver, and I upset him

Thursday, February 19th, 2009 Posted in Civil Liberties, Information Technology, Intellectual Property | 6 Comments »

Richard Stallman was in Vancouver two weeks ago.  He performed, if I may describe his lectures like that, three times; I caught the first.  I asked Stallman a question after it was over, and thoroughly annoyed him.  I know that ...

What would you call open-source marketing?

Friday, December 26th, 2008 Posted in Business Law, Communications, Information Technology, Intellectual Property | 5 Comments »

President-Elect Barack Obama raised $264.5M through April 30, 2008, thrice that raised by his opponent, Senator John McCain. Studies at the FEC, The Campaign Finance Institute, The Center for Responsive Politics , George Washington University, indicate that a massive ...

Are there benefits to “piracy”?

Thursday, November 6th, 2008 Posted in Business Law, Information Technology, Intellectual Property, Video Games | 1 Comment »

The pro-copyright, pro-DMCA, anti-counterfeit lobby groups would have you believe that all unauthorized reproduction (and distribution), colloquially known (inaccurately) as piracy, is horrid for the industries concerned, and is destroying them.  They go so far as to call it theft, ...

Alternatives to C-61, part II

Thursday, August 28th, 2008 Posted in Information Technology, Intellectual Property | No Comments »

Here's the rest of that post: GOALS The goal of any legislation is to balance concerns of interested but competing parties, and to approach this balance, as much as possible, with a public interest bias. The concerns were these:

Alternatives to C-61: Statutory concerns for the protection and encouragement of creative works

Sunday, August 24th, 2008 Posted in Information Technology, Intellectual Property | 1 Comment »

I want to suggest an alternative paradigm to the statutory regime for creative works as intellectual property, a.k.a. copyright.  I'm not going to get into detailed explanations of the existing Copyleft and other alternative paradigms to copyright.  But I'm going ...

Cry Havoc! and let slip the dogs of Copyfight!

Sunday, December 16th, 2007 Posted in Communications, Information Technology, Intellectual Property | 2 Comments »

Not discussing the latest Canadian copyright reform bill, or the Canadian DMCA as it has been touted, to kick off weblawg.net would be like Han Solo ignoring his friend in need barreling down the trench of a moon-sized space station. Discussing ...