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Tag Archives: copyleft
Richard Stallman came to Vancouver, and I upset him
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 I annoyed him because he grew flustered, stamped his feet, turned away from me to the rest of the crowd and yelled at me. Continue reading
What would you call open-source marketing?
Instead of tightening your grip on intellectual property (mostly trade-mark with a healthy dose of copyright and some neighbouring rights) and then hoping for royalties, the group doing the marketing attempts to engineer a type of personality cult for the brand. … What I’m talking about is tying differences (real or created) to cultural phenomena, and then grabbing hold of those phenomena and driving from that end; the product becomes a tag-along to those cultural memes. Continue reading
Alternatives to C-61, part II
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
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Information Technology, Intellectual Property
Tagged C-61, copyfight, copyleft, copyright, copyright reform, public domain, user rights
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Cry Havoc! and let slip the dogs of Copyfight!
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. … Continue reading
Posted in Communications, Information Technology, Intellectual Property
Tagged copyfight, copyleft, copyright, copyright reform
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