intellectual property
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Intellectual Property’s Much-Needed Evolution
World Intellectual Property Day, the greatest of all spring holidays, was this Tuesday, April 26th. In honor of the holiday, the UK’s Intellectual Property Minister Baroness Neville-Rolfe made a statement calling for an update in the legal concept, Billboard reports:…
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Clean Reader, Dirty World
When the Clean Reader app tried to censor books for profanity, writers were understandably pissed. The creators responded by removing their catalogue, but does their technology have implications for the future of intellectual property?
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Some Musings on Fair Use
I’m a bit of an anarchist when it comes to Intellectual Property, especially in the realm of art. I imagine that makes me a bit of an outlier, and I think my position stems, in part at least, from the…
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Is the Internet Ruining Our Lives?
We’re distracted, our attention is shot, we are under surveillance, and we don’t care! We like being linked and friended by strangers who may or may not be who they say they are.