Category: Copyright
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Movie Piracy: A look at the effects on revenue
I have written previously about piracy and how to combat it. One thing I haven’t spoken about, is the impact of piracy, mostly because I haven’t been able to find any decent sources on the subject. While I have been certain that the claims made by the industry have been extremely off target, I have not had…
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Creative Commons 4.0 is here
In an announcement in late November of last year, Creative Commons announced the release of version 4 of Creative Commons licencing. Arriving after a development period of two years, version four is billed as “the most global, legally robust licenses produced by CC to date.” It should come as no surprise that I support…
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Accessibility – the way to combat piracy
Software, music and movie piracy has been a more or less constant topic of discussion over the past ten or so years, usually led by special interest groups representing the three industries (in the U.S., these are the BSA, RIAA and MPAA, respectively). I agree that copyright holders should be paid their due, and have…
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the NRKbeta doctrine
At earlier points in time, I have mentioned that I follow NRKbeta, NRK‘s sandbox for technology and new media. Today, I simply want to quote something they wrote a long time ago, which has been coined as the NRKbeta doctrine: If you want control of your content you need to lock it down in a…
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Practice what you preach
A while back, I wrote a post centred around how authors can control the destinies of their own work. Noone is less shielded from their work being stolen than those who publish their things online. Bloggers create huge amounts of text, all of which is covered by copyright law. However, they put the text online,…
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Copyright, copyleft and copywrong: the way forward
A while back, I wrote a post about how the term intellectual property theft lacks semantic foundation, and argued that no such thing actually exists. Instead, I pointed out that the correct term would be intellectual property infringement. Part of the problem, when talking about intellectual property, is that, depending on where you are, different…
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How corporate greed loses copyright holders’ sales
A while ago, I looked up a book that I like on Amazon’s Kindle store, to see if I could get it for my Kindle. Sure enough, they had it, but they wouldn’t sell it to me. Instead, I was met with this message: To my mind, there is no good reason for this.…
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On theft, intellectual property and semantics
I believe strongly in the power of words. They can hurt and heal, and they are our primary mode of communication. When discussing any topic, accuracy is very important, and using accurate and appropriate words for what you mean to describe improves your arguments. By the same token, using words that do not accurately describe…