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Is Google getting too powerful? (...more)
It used to be Microsoft that some pointed to as dangerously powerful - having control of the personal computing market through their monopoly on operating systems. Now people are talking about Google's growing influence on the Web. Google is much...
October 5, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
Lessig Article in the Globe and Mail (...more)Globe and Mail: Stanford professor Lawrence Lessig has turned the intellectual ownership debate on its ear. Free downloads and fewer restrictions can be a creator's best friend....
April 11, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
(...more)The IP Spectrum...
April 1, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Filesharing is not infringement says Federal Court Judge (...more)As this Globe and Mail article reports, Canada's Federal Court has ruled against a motion which would have allowed the music industry to begin suing individuals who make music available on-line. This is the strongest message issued against the persecution...
April 1, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Revisiting the IP debate (...more)While we plod along through TFOI, would anyone like to revisit these IP debates which took place over on my 'MIS for the Information Age' weblog? Do you have anything to add? Is there anything interesting going on in the...
March 10, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
CRIA kicks off battle against filesharers in Canada (...more)What's this? (Thanks to Dave for the tip). Using a tactic resembling those of the RIAA against filesharers in the United States, The Canadian Recording Industry Association has asked a number of Internet service providers to hand over contact information...
February 13, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
The Tyranny of Copyright? (...more)We are at a moment in our history at which the terms of freedom and justice are up for grabs.......Each major innovation in the history of communications - the printing press, radio, telephone - was followed by a brief period...
January 26, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack
IP debates (...more)There is a debate starting in my MIS class that explores the complex issues of intellectual property in the networking age. This is interesting ground to explore before we delve into Lessig's TFOI. Feel free to join in the debates!...
January 23, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
TBL places the web in the Public Domain (...more)Near the tail end of chapter six TBL talks about the lesson that the University of Minnesota's (mis)handling of the licensing of GOPHER teaches and the options he has in choosing how the intellectual property of the web could and...
January 21, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
