Category — Copyright Law & IP

In our last post we expressed our strong support for a free and open web. To try to get to the heart of the Creative Commons movement, we were fortunate to be able to interview Ahrash N. Bissell, Ph.D., the Executive Director of ccLearn (the educational division within the Creative Commons).
Dr. Bissell previously served […]

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We have heard many express concerns over the future of the Internet. One group postulates that an unattended digital commons is destined for the same troubles facing our over-fished oceans and our clogged highways. Others insist that without regulations the behemoths of the industry like Google and Microsoft will simply take control of the world-wide […]

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In this video Brewster Kahle highlighted the importance of open and redundant access to information.
Project Gutenberg makes over 20,000 full books accessible online. Additional public domain books are available online via sites like Google Book Search, Creative Commons, and the Open Content Alliance.
Many published books created after 1922 are still under copyright and […]

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Cory Doctorow recently spoke at Google about the corrosive effects of IP protection, international trade agreements, and copyright law that treat society as a group of criminals until proven otherwise. He also discussed how lawsuits against consumers did not provide any income to the artists the lawsuits allegedly helped to defend.

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