the end of intellectual property?

From the conclusion of Adrian Johns’s remarkable book Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to...

Aaron Swartz and MIT

I have one one thing to say about this statement from a MIT professor about the Aaron Swartz tragedy, and that’s that...

listen to Tom

Cory Doctorow is making sense

Maximal, abusive, mindless copyright expansion isn’t just a disaster for the public, though. It’s also a disaster...

Lessig on GBS

A video of Larry Lessig's talk on the Google Book Settlement — and its legal and technological background...

confusion

I don't know what to think about the Google Books Settlement, though since it affects me, I really ought to have a...

the good old days

Charlie Stross: As for the intellectual property, I try not to get too worked up about it. There’s a lot of...

how to apologize

It's rare to see a straightforward public apology with nary a weasel-word in it, but that's precisely...

first they came for the readers of pro-choice literature

Concerning the whole deleted-books-from-your-Kindle imbroglio, Sam Jordison writes in the Guardian: This early Kindle...

the Kindle saga, part . . . um, whatever

I have already related the lamentable tale of the loss of my Kindle. I now have an update. I didn't buy that Kindle...