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Copyright Needs Limits, As It Restricts Innovation

Gary Shapiro | Posted 05.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Supreme Court, Movie Industry, Consumer-Electronics-Association, Copyright, Riaa, Content Creation, Innovation, Creative Commons, Dvr, Apple, Dell, Qualcomm, Jfk, Cea, Ebay, Sony Betamax, Amazon, Vcr, Fair Use, Google, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Gary Shapiro, mp3s, Congress, Hollywood, Facebook, Tivo, Mark Helprin, Cisco, Piracy, Music Industry, Texas Instruments, Zillow, Hp, Patents, Business News
Gary Shapiro

Defenders of expanded copyright restrictions imply that content owners have been on a losing streak and have few tools at their disposal. Wrong.

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How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own

David Bollier | Posted 03.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Copyright Law, Free Culture, Free Software, Creative Commons, Internet, Media News
David Bollier

An open culture, a sharing economy and a digital republic: the foundations for this new world actually matured during the nightmarish Bush years, beneath its contemptuous gaze.

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Face/Off: How a Little Change in Facebook's User Policy is Making People Rethink the Rights They Give Away Online

Daniel Sinker | Posted 02.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Internet, Facebook Privacy, Creative Commons, Facebook, Privacy, Silicon Valley, Non-Apology Apology, Facebook Terms of Service, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook Controversy, Media News
Daniel Sinker

What's got billionare Mark Zuckerberg so blue? Just that his service is claiming perpetual rights to all its 175 million users' content, even if you kill your account.

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Tila Tequila Likes to F*ck...with Free Speech

Disgrasian | Posted 02.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Tila Tequila Copyright Infringement, Creative Commons, Copyright, A Shot at Love With Tila Tequila, Tila Tequila, Bloggers, Free Speech Rights, Free Speech, Tila Tequila Free Speech, Legal Rights, Exploitation, Tila Tequila Censorship, Internet Censorship, Internet Law, Tila Nguyen, Censorship, Fair Use, Media News
Disgrasian

It sounds a helluva lot like Tila Tequila believes in censorship. Of the very same medium that made her, which, frankly, we find shockingly ungrateful.

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Wikipedia Founder Proposes Support for Open Textbooks

Esther Wojcicki | Posted 04.01.2008 | Business

Read More: Oer, Hewlett, Sesame Street, Video, Creative Commons, Open Educational Resources, Wikipedia, MIT Open Courses, Joan Ganz Cooney Center, Open Education, UC Berkeley Open Courses, Yale Open Courses, Open Education Movement, Open Coursework, Cclearn, Core, Hewlett Foundation, Larry Sanger, Curriki, Business News
Esther Wojcicki

The Open Educational Resources (OER) movement does not need another group doing the same thing. One area where it needs support is search.

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