Graham English

Posts Tagged ‘intellectual property’

Business 2.0: Help Define “Open Business”

From Help define “open business”:
We started Openbusiness to share knowledge about business models that give a substantial portion of their main product away for free. By “free” we meant free as in “freedom” and also as in “free beer”, paraphrasing Richard Stallman’s famous illustration of the difference between “freed” from restrictions of intellectual property law [...]

Lawrence Lessig On Indie Fairness

Lawrence Lessig professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society. He’s leading the conversation about the challenges of intellectual property and copyright in the digital age. From his blog:
The band Beatnik Turtle has released an “Indie Band Survival Guide” (free, as in CC). They’ve also now practiced [...]

Creative Commons Victory

I was talking to my roommate about starting a blog yesterday and the subject of copyright came up. I told him about the Creative Commons license. As a serendipitous example of morphogenetic fields, these posts showed up in my newsreader: A CC First and Creative Commons has teeth.
Creative Commons Weblog: The first known court decision [...]

Rock and Roll is Here to Pay

The average consumer is not motivated by arguments about copyright infringement, nor should they be…
Copyright has never been simply an exclusive contract to exploit the fruits of one’s creativity, but rather a balancing act, weighing the legal protection of intellectual property against the public rights of access to information and freedom of expression. And the [...]