Archive for 'intellectual.property'
Creative Commons
If you will glance down at the footer on this page (or follow the “about” or “policies” links) you will see that I have replaced my copyright notices with creative commons ones. I’m hardly a leader in this — as a guy who has worked in book publishing for many years I have had the [...]
Posted: February 25th, 2008 under contracts, copyright, intellectual.property, rights.
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Copyright and Fair Use
By Condoleezza Rice
Posted: April 29th, 2007 under copyright, fiction, intellectual.property.
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Universal Google?
In D-Lib magazine David Bearman provides an abstract of the argument Jean-Noël Jeanneney (President of the Bibliothèque nationale de France) presents in his Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge: A View from Europe (University of Chicago Press, October 2006). Jeanneney argues:
Google’s selection skews “the world’s knowledge” toward English-language texts, especially those from the U.S. [...]
Posted: December 18th, 2006 under intellectual.property, search.engines.
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Authorship and the Web
On a worldwide web where anybody can post anything any time (unless they live in a place like China, but that’s a subject for another post), how can we identify original content? How much does proper attribution matter?
There’s a whole parasitic industry of taking other people’s content and manipulating it to draw hits and bring [...]
Posted: August 26th, 2006 under blogging, intellectual.property.
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