Just off the press: Lucie Guibault, Christina Angelopoulos (eds.), Open Content Licensing. From Theory to Practice, Amsterdam University Press 2011. Full text download / Table of Content. „To promote the use of open content licenses, it is important to better… Mehr lesen >
DRM: Ubisoft: our DRM “is a success”, PC Gamer, 28.7.2011 DRM: Weiter im Einsatz bei eBooks, Bibliothekarisch.de, 6.3.2011 US is introducing data retention law, Cnet, 28.7.2011 HADOPI geht in die letzte Eskalationsstufe, Netzpolitik, 25.7.2011 PayPal, IFPI and Police Collaborate To… Mehr lesen >
Activist and programmer Aaron Swartz has been indicted for downloading more the four million articles from the academic repository JSTOR. Aaron is a fellow at Harvard University’s Center for Ethics, co-author of the RSS 1.0 specification, founder of Demand Progress,… Mehr lesen >
„Despite the huge PR campaign surrounding the “eG8 forum”, citizens and civil society must hold their ground to reclaim a free Internet and its social and democratic values. A club of corporation CEOs (Publicis, Facebook, Orange, Google) is going to… Mehr lesen >
Re-Touching McLuhan – The Medium is the Massage. Marshall McLuhan Centennial Weekend, 27–29 May 2011. Conference, screening, installation, performance. Embassy of Canada / Marshall McLuhan Salon, Leipziger Platz 17, Berlin. The international conference Re-Touching McLuhan: The Medium is the Massage… Mehr lesen >
On 25-27 August 2011 the American University Washington College of Law in Washington DC will host a Global Congress, no less. If you want to participate in „one of the most important meetings on international intellectual property law and policy… Mehr lesen >
The 6th Annual Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) will take place on 30th June – 1st July 2011 at Kalkscheune, Johannisstr. 2, in Berlin. This year’s topics include Open Data Technology, Open Science and Open Data in Academic Research, Open Law,… Mehr lesen >
Grassmuck, Volker Ralf, Academic Studies on the Effect of File-Sharing on the Recorded Music Industry: A Literature Review (14 May 2010). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1749579 for Acesso a bens educacionais e culturais no Brasil, Projeto de Pesquisa de Grupo de… Mehr lesen >
Ever since Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff appointed Ana de Hollanda as new Minister of Culture in December 2010, the situation has been escalating. There was a first Open Letter by the Brazilian civil society at the end of December and… Mehr lesen >
This is the extended version of my talk notes for the Alternative Compensation Systems panel at Rethink Music on 27 April 2011 in Boston, MA. For some impressions from the conference in general see here. The video recording of our… Mehr lesen >