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July 22, 2016 4:50 AM
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May 16, 2016 2:50 PM
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All Prior Art is a project attempting to algorithmically create and publicly publish all possible new prior art, making the published concepts un-patentable
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May 11, 2016 3:18 PM
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The Peer Production License (PPL) allows cooperatives and solidarity-based collectives, but not corporations, to monetize cultural works.
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April 16, 2016 8:09 AM
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Blockchain based distributed applications, Commons based licenses, network effects and antitrust legislation and much more in this David Bollier interview.
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April 5, 2016 11:57 AM
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Right-wing techno-libertarianism is a last-ditch effort to capture the technologies of freedom and abundance and harness them to their own greed.
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March 25, 2016 4:33 PM
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People, not corporations or governments, make things: Labor is what has produced things under every ism in history. The isms just determine who gets paid.
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March 2, 2016 4:19 PM
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Aaron Swartz was one of the pioneers in the struggle to tear down that wall in academia. And the job he did so much to help start is now nearing completion.
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February 25, 2016 5:23 AM
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As used by right-wing apologists for “free market capitalism” capitalism is the source of everything good in the world, although it's never existed.
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February 16, 2016 2:26 PM
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The approval of the current Trade Secrets directive would lead to very serious threats for citizens who undercover corporate abuses
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January 23, 2016 9:51 AM
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“To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusiv…
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January 7, 2016 5:01 AM
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German publishers have filed a complaint against Google in a row over whether or not the search engine should pay the publishers to show their articles online, a spokesman for VG Media - a consortium of around 200 publishers - told Reuters.
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December 26, 2015 9:36 AM
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This is an article in the amazing Pirate Book! Marie Lechner explains: “Liang claims that piracy makes cultural products otherwise inaccessible to most of the population available to the greatest number of users, but also offers the possibility of an “infrastructure for cultural production.” The case of the parallel film industry based in Malegaon is …
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December 18, 2015 9:53 AM
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The SocialCapital plugin is a key piece for the promotion of GNU social as an operating system for cities.
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July 3, 2016 6:20 PM
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The cultural industries have proven to be surprisingly creative in the strategies they employ to combat piracy substantiated by the documents in this book.
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May 16, 2016 2:46 PM
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Isaac Anderson, a former MakerBot employee, tells a cautionary tale about the perils of venture capital inserting itself in the Open Source community
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April 19, 2016 8:33 AM
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Creative Commons licensing is the smart way to distribute local or national news content when the goal is maximum impact and outreach.
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April 6, 2016 12:31 PM
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Market competition socializes the benefits of technological progress, absent artificial property rights that enable capitalists to enclose them as rent.
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March 31, 2016 5:55 AM
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It would take a single mum, working a backshift in Asda for £6.70 an hour before tax, half a day's labour to access just one science article on a topic that interests her.
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March 6, 2016 3:34 PM
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We must declare Facebook to be independent, and we must plan it and administer it so that it responds to the needs of its citizens around the world.
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February 25, 2016 8:51 AM
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Copylove started in 2011 as a local informal network for investigations into commons and feminist practices. Later, it turned into a public and open investigation via www.copylove.cc (only in Spanish) led by Sofía Coca (ZEMOS98, Sevilla), Txelu Balboa (COLABORABORA, Euskadi) and Rubén Martínez (Fundación de los Comunes, Barcelona) in which we tried to extract, from the experiences we had, what kind of ties and relations are established within a community of agents, whose practices and ways of doing generate commons for the whole community. Copylove was a way of getting deeper into all that we consider that reproduces desirable conditions of existence: affection, processes of interdependence, mutual aid, community love, care, etc. When we say Copylove, we mean everything we produce and reproduce that can take us closer to “good living”, to a sustainable living, and not simply in monetary...
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February 20, 2016 4:35 AM
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To see just how stupid this “argument” is, we only have to imagine its equivalent being used by apologists for other class systems throughout history.
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February 4, 2016 11:48 AM
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Author, Amelia Tomasicchio, recently published an article entitled "Copyright Management: What If Instagram Used The Blockchain?
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January 9, 2016 10:16 AM
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An interesting situation has developed with the proposed Star Trek ‘fan film’ Axanar which may highlight how we find ourselves in a transition period between two eras: the old era which relies on ‘Intellectual Property’ (IP), heavyweight corporate power and lawyers; against a new agile era based on crowdfunding and free access to information. hollywoodreporter.com …
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December 28, 2015 4:22 PM
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Let’s start with the auto producer (leading battery maker and logistics data collector) Tesla. Once the Gigafactory is f…
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December 23, 2015 3:23 PM
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Megaupload founder promises new appeal in case that's dragged on for nearly 4 years.
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