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The Public Domain Manifesto

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“Le livre, comme livre, appartient à l’auteur, mais comme pensée, il appartient—le mot n’est pas trop vaste—au genre humain. Toutes les intelligences y ont droit. Si l’un des deux droits, le droit de l’écrivain et le droit de l’esprit humain, devait être sacrifié, ce serait, certes, le droit de [...]

Tags: copyright protection, Democracy, free speech, james boyle, public domain, victor hugo
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More TV Shows Offering Reasons To Buy; Castle’s Successful Character-Written Novel

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TechDirt is one of those great thoughtful blogs commenting on the ongoing cyberwars over copyright, intellectual property rights, trademark issues etc.  This is the online coverage version of “The Great War” for an open and creative internet.,  Mike Masnick does a fine job of keeping up with the skirmishes and battles being fought [...]

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The Key To Innovation: Putting Ideas And Information Together In New Ways

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There’s a new, massively detailed, study coming out on the secrets to being a great innovator, and the key finding really stands out:

“What the innovators have in common is that they can put together ideas and information in unique combinations that nobody else has quite put together before.”
Notice that one of the [...]

Tags: Innovation, innovation killer, innovator, innovators, inventions, need for innovation, patent system
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Author Sherman Alexie’s Rants On Colbert Against Ebooks, Piracy And ‘Open Source Culture’

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On last night’s Colbert Report, author Sherman Alexie spent most of the interview ranting against digital books and how “piracy” was destroying the book business. The whole thing was odd not just because of how uninformed it was, but also because he seemed to contradict himself multiple times. I haven’t read any of [...]

Tags: book business, business model, colbert report, digital books, digital piracy, e reader, ebooks, open source culture, piracy, sherman alexie, unauthorized copy
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Yet Another Nobel Prize Winner Says That Intellectual Property Is Harming Science

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We’ve discussed in the past how Noble Prize winning economists have been worried about the impact of intellectual property laws, and how at least one Nobel Prize winning physicist is warning that strict intellectual property laws are harming science and innovation. Now we can add a Nobel Prize winning biologist to the list [...]

Tags: common misconceptions, independent inventor, intellectual property is harming science, intellectual property laws, invention, ip rights, Nobel Prize winner, patents, sir john sulston
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