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{ Monthly Archives } February 2009

You always lose with DRM

James Boyle, law professor and author of “The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind“, recently wrote about his mixed feelings concerning the release of his book for the Amazon Kindle, a portable proprietary electronic device for reading texts. His points concerning DRM (which I prefer to call “digital restrictions management” because that acronym [...]

Copyfighters: demonstrate better behavior by sharing with those who share with us.

On BoingBoing, there’s a thread talking about “the alarming number of lawyers being appointed by the Obama administration to the Department of Justice” and how this means “Bad news for people who believe in copyright reform, and greater freedom to share, remix, and reuse content online.”. One of the quotes cited in support of the [...]