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", … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]