The most impressive panel in my opinion: Niva Elkin-Koren, James Boyle, John Willbanks and Jenny Toomey. James Boyle is clear-headed and acute as usual, warning of the dangers present in the commons movement. The first danger is that we should not become the “lost leaders”, that having hours and hours Read more…
(picture courtesy of Ariel Vercelli)I’m still here after the first day, a bit worse for wear from jet-lag and a dodgy stomach, but still going. So many different highlights to the first day! Perhaps I should just paint a picture of what the place feels like. As I mentioned yesterday, Read more…
Quite a good start to the policy discussions, there is too much to write, so I’ll be rather brief. WIPO discussion: Contentious session indeed! There was a good presentation from Richard Owens, but then some cutting comments from James Boyle, James Love and Cory Doctorow.The problem is of course the Read more…
Opening Session: Very good opening session. The highlights for me were Joi Ito, who has been speaking on the many different technical things in which we can make sure that Creative Commons works from a business perspective. Gilberto Gil has amazed the audience with a pasionate speech about the importance Read more…
The meeting has started, we are gathered in the impressively posh Marriot Hotel in Ipanema. I measure poshness by how many times I politely get asked what I’m doing (three times before getting to the venue). I guess that it’s just because I look like I don’t belong, but it Read more…
I will be away to Rio de Janeiro to attend the second Creative Commons summit, or more accurately, the iCommons summit, as it is actually an international gathering to discuss the Creative Commons movement, and what a gathering it promises to be! As with last year’s gathering in Harvard, I Read more…
I am becoming rather ambivalent about moral rights, which goes against my Civil Law upbringing. I believe that moral right of attribution is a good thing, but that the moral right of integrity can be difficult to apply, and when it is it may prove more trouble than it’s worth. Read more…
In a week were we have seen the two sides of Bill Gates exposed by the press ad nauseam, it is refreshing to see Microsoft do some of the stupid things why we love them for. The Beta version of the long-awaited/feared/loathed Windows Vista has been released to testers, with Read more…
The June issue of SCRIPTed, the Journal of Law and Technology, is now online. In this issue: Editorial: – Open Letter to the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property. AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law and IP Academics. Special Feature : – The Intellectual Property Incentive: Read more…
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) gave us a nice gift last week to celebrate the International Day of the Beast (6/6/6) by announcing that we could rip music into our iPods. Yes, the widely popular practice of making copies of what you have purchased is still illegal, but the kind Read more…