Tag Archives: Copyright
Three-Strike Copyright
To fully function as a student in today’s Western democracies means having access access to the Internet. In some cases this means students use Content Management Systems (CMSs) such as Drupal, Blackboard, or wikis (to name a few examples) to submit homework … Continue reading
Bombs, bombs, and the children
In the past several months there have been more and more fractures in the carefully maintained facades of the RIAA and EU’s democratic openness. They have also been the formative months of Nicholas Negroponte’s dream of putting inexpensive notebooks in … Continue reading
Piracy, Privacy, and Big Brother
As an initial aside: Linux betas really are betas, nothing like the relatively polished (in comparison) betas that Redmond released. Piracy or ‘Avast Me Mateys!’ I don’t spend a lot of time talking about software or music piracy, largely because … Continue reading
Copyfraud, the Corporation, and College Publishing
This posting is motivated by Jason Mazzone’s paper “Copyfraud“, where he investigates copyfraud. Copyfraud is defined as “claiming falsely a copyright in a public domain work” (3) and after discussing instances that copyfraud is both perpetrated he reflects on ways … Continue reading
