Guardian columnist Victor Keegan recently joined a growing chorus of forward-thinking people in calling for lawmakers to roll-back or at least counter-balance the ever-tightening regime of copyright law. Keegan laments the efforts of entrenched Hollywood interests to further extend the lifespan of copyright protection and calls for lawmakers to tip the balance of copyright law […]
Entries from November 2006
Tipping the balance of copyright law
November 28th, 2006
Tags: sharing · intellectual property · policy · copyright
Chapter 1 of Wikinomics available for download
November 23rd, 2006
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything is set to hit the shelves in just over a month from now. Don Tapscott and I have had a lot of good book-related news recently, including freshly-inked deals to translate Wikinomics into Japanese and Spanish. Now we’ve decided to make the introduction and chapter one available to potential […]
Tags: wikinomics
Open source Java a major win for openness
November 13th, 2006
Sun Microsystems announced today that the its opening up the source code for its popular Java software platform. With Java powering some 3.8 billion cell phones, supercomputers, medical devices, and other gadgets, the announcement represents one of the largest additions of computer code to the open-source community and marks a significant shift for a company […]
Tags: sharing · intellectual property · open source
900 sign on to write Wikipedia-style management book
November 8th, 2006
To say that all books will soon be wiki-style books is no doubt an exaggeration, but the day is surely coming when a significant proportion of books will have some wiki-component. A number of books are already being made available for wiki-style editing and elaboration after the “first edition” is published and we are now […]
Tags: wikinomics · web 2.0 · wikipedia · publishing