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Friday, October 11, 2002
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Copyright and the Commons: "There's the old saying that good artists copy and great artists steal, and that's not based on outright theft, but the acknowledgement that we are all influenced by others' work, and things like hip hop music and photoshop collages point out how great new art can be created when combining other works into new works." [Daypop Top 40]
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David Weinberger on Microsoft's Palladium digital right managmeent system: "Ultimately, I think you have to ask what world will be better, one with enforceable usage rights that drive out the leeway and hard-codify fair use, or one in which there's reasonable (and even unreasonable) leeway where some genuine piracy happens, a lot of genuine cash-for-use happens, and a whole bunch in between goes on at every level of society." [Werblog]
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Understanding the Privacy Space: "This paper reports on an ongoing research project focusing on privacy tools, and services available on the Internet. A detailed examination of 133 different privacy-related software tools and services rendered a list of 1,241 features relating to privacy." [Privacy Digest]
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...radio free beowulf points to Fortune.com: Because media companies see intellectual property as their only asset, they're willing to risk totally alienating their entire customer base in order to protect that asset. ... instead the companies should learn to view their the customers themselves as the asset and figure out ways to partner with them, or treat them as what he calls "co-participants, rather than an inert audience that merely consumes media".
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