So what does this have to do with slavery? You may recall that while not as pernicious as slavery, the mind-control aspect of intellectual property has many of the same problems as slavery - a form of property that has always been opposed by economists. One of the most interesting posts on the Open Knowledge Foundation website is the post about data on the slave trade: which is itself enslaved in chains of intellectual property.
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Slaving the Slavers
We'll get to slavery at the end of this post. I want to highlight some of the good guys for a change. The Open Knowledge Foundation - well the name pretty much describes it. It came to my attention through Rufus Pollock, who is a Ph.D student at Cambridge (England) doing research on cumulative innovation. Rufus has been active in Europe with several important organizations: the FFII, the major grass-roots organization lobbying against software patents in the EU - we've dodged the bullet on that one so far, as well as being involved with the UK Creative Commons.
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Blogroll Add (Google Patent Search)
The Google Patent Search has been added to the blogroll of this site.
Enjoy!
[Posted at 04/19/2007 10:50 AM by Justin Levine on Blogroll comments(0)]
Recording Industry vs. The People
If you are interested in keeping detailed track of all of the contested litigation over music file sharing, there is no better blog than the Recording Industry vs. The People blog.
It features many of the actual motions from cases that are slowly winding their way through the courts - waged by the brave few who refuse to kowtow to the RIAA.
[Posted at 03/19/2007 05:02 PM by Justin Levine on Blogroll comments(0)]
Moving to Freedom
Scott Carpenter has started a nice blog Moving to Freedom on free software and related issues about ideas and intellectual property. Among other things he has a nice post reminding us of Ben Franklin's views of patent law.
[Posted at 09/17/2006 12:19 PM by David K. Levine on Blogroll comments(0)]
Techdirt
Although not strictly focused on issues of monopoly on intellectual monopoly Techdirt provides great coverage of IT issues of public interest - including patent and copyright issues.
[Posted at 09/08/2006 09:35 AM by David K. Levine on Blogroll comments(0)]
Patently Silly
Thanks to Michael Powell for pointing out the wonderful Patently Silly site reminding us of the great unique, non-obvious, and useful inventions our patent examiners have created monopolies over.
[Posted at 07/10/2006 03:58 PM by David K. Levine on Blogroll comments(0)]
researchoninnovation.org
Jim Bessen's researchoninnovation.org publishes a quarterly newsletter Research on Innovation - now in blog format.
[Posted at 05/10/2006 02:39 PM by David K. Levine on Blogroll comments(0)]
Ed Felten's Blog
Ed Felten examines how the law and technology such as DRM impact our freedom to tinker and improve software. Felten is a computer scientist and his blog is particularly good probing the technical details of how things work - or don't work.
[Posted at 03/17/2006 08:57 AM by David K. Levine on Blogroll comments(0)]
Larry Lessig's blog
Larry Lessig examines copyright issues and the current excesses of copyright length and digital rights management.
[Posted at 03/17/2006 08:42 AM by David K. Levine on Blogroll comments(0)]
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