Canada’s universities are on the verge of accepting a copyright licensing deal that flies in the face of all reason Canada’s universities are on the verge of accepting a copyright licensing deal that flies in [...]

It’s time for real patent reform Andy Kessler has one of his typically insightful Wall Street Journal opinion pieces in which he says it’s time for real patent reform (rather than the joke of patent [...]

Two sections in particular are proving controversial As China continues to climb up the economic rankings (it became number two last year, in case you missed it) its domestic policy begins to have wider implications [...]

The health and wellness industry is in serious need of disruptive innovation Recently, we saw a huge reaction to the story of how a patent lawsuit was threatening to silence a little girl by shutting [...]

Twitter is thinking differently about this We’ve talked repeatedly in the past about how even if a company got patents for solely defensive reasons, down the road, those patents can end up in the hands [...]

There’s been a really interesting trend going on recently. For all the talk about how the entertainment industry must be dying (it isn’t), a whole bunch of internet-aware celebrities are wholeheartedly embracing the internet as [...]

There’s been plenty of research over the years (much of which we’ve pointed to here) showing that the sharing of information and knowledge — including information and knowledge that leads to innovation breakthroughs — can [...]

Multiple people have passed along this fantastic manifesto of modern creativity that was put together by five curators of an exhibition for Les Rencontres Arles Photographie called “From Here On.”   Read more . . [...]

  Erin McKeown, a wonderful musician who has been very involved in some discussions on copyright and internet access — and who was especially helpful in the fight against SOPA — recently wrote the following [...]

Those resources can take on a life of their own One of the fields that is ripe for disruption by open digital technologies and business models based on abundance is education. That’s already starting to [...]

What is the most egregious example of corporate censhorship? As promised, here is our discussion with Rebecca MacKinnon, the author of Consent of the Networked, a fascinating book about the fine balance online today between [...]

Some uses of drones seem so sensible It’s striking how drones have passed from a mysterious weapon used to wreak destruction in distant lands to something that could well become a familiar sight in the [...]