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Intellectual property gone mad
Friday night, I tweeted a link to a Guardian article stating that app developers were withdrawing apps from Apple’s app store and Google’s Android market (and presumably also Amazon’s app store),...
View ArticleIntellectual Property Strategy: a book, a panel, and a movement
I attended one of Berkman’s panels of leading thinkers at Harvard on Monday, and picked up (legitimately) a copy of John Palfrey’s new book, Intellectual Property Strategy. The speakers on Monday, who...
View ArticleThe week the web changed Washington
This morning, Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), the Senate Majority Leader, said in a statement that he would postpone next week’s vote on the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) followed with a...
View ArticleJury to Eolas: Nobody owns the interactive web
As Joe Mullin reported at Wired earlier tonight, a Texas jury has struck down a company’s claim to own the interactive web. The decision in this case comes after more than a decade of legal wrangling...
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Fair use: A narrow, subjective, complicated safe haven for free speech
Questions of fair use continue to arise, with the most recent fair use judgment coming from a U.S. federal court in Nevada, which ruled that excerpting copyrighted materials — up to 10% of the original...
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Developer Week in Review: Oracle's big bet fails to pay off
I’ve been taking the opportunity this week to do some spring office cleaning. Unfortunately, I clean my home office infrequently enough that at a certain point, cleaning it becomes more an exercise in...
View ArticleFour short links: 4 February 2011
Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property (MIT Press) — with essays by knowledgeable folks such as Yochai Benkler, Larry Lessig, and Jo Walsh. Available as open access (free) ebook as...
View ArticleSoftware patents, prior art, and revelations of the Peer to Patent review
A report from the Peer to Patent initiative shows that the project is having salutary effects on the patent system. Besides the greater openness that Peer to Patent promotes in evaluating individual...
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At the eG8, 20th century ideas clashed with the 21st century economy
The scene was set, the players chosen. Amidst the gorgeous environs of the Tuileries Gardens next to the Louvre in Paris, an immense pavilion and grand dais would host a global conversation on the...
View ArticleShould the patent office open its internal guidelines to the public?
Anyone following policy issues around technological innovation has noticed the power and scope of patents expanding over time. For instance, most people are aware of the Supreme Court’s decision to...
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