Christopher Sprigman, professor of law at the University of Virginia discusses his forthcoming book, The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation sparks Innovation, co-authored with Kal Raustiala. The book is an accessible look at how industries that are not generally protected
http://surprisinglyfree.com/2012/07/17/christopher-sprigman/
It be Wednesday… There is no IP address to listen live, only the button on dirtyboxers.net/live works. Power issues have been threatening, but not
http://dirtyboxers.net/2012/07/04/db452-ubuntus-crock-of-crop/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
"I’m a councillor to sick corporations and their disease is intellectual property"
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Changing the Proprietary, Closed, and Almost Secretive Phone Network Picture is from 2600 Hertz Pproject Team.pAlmost every morning between 4 and 6 AM 2600 Hertz, Application programming interface, Cloud computing, darren schreiber, freeswitch, TechCrunch, Tropo, Twilio, Voice over IP
http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/2011/05/2600_hertz_project_interview.html
Vint Cerf takes his title of Internet Evangelist for Google seriously. He is knee-deep in several projects to bring the next versions of the "Internet" into the world, including IPv6 adoption and the creation of a new extraterrestrial Internet, the so-called "InterPlaNetary Internet." At the annual Digital Broadband Migration conference in Boulder, Colo., Vint sat down with Network World’s Julie Bort to discuss the future of IP, home networking, the Interplanetary Internet, cloud computing standards and other topics. (15:19)
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by Intellectual Property Colloquium Every year, at least one major copyright case brings to the fore the complexity, importance, and unpredictability of fair use analysis. That case this year? Shepard Fairey v. The Associated Press. In this edition of the Intellectual Property Colloquium, we dig into the Fairey fair use fight, talking with Mark Lemley, who represents the artist; Dale Cendali, who represents the AP; and, for some outside perspective, Ken Richieri, Senior Vice President and General Counsel at the New York Times. UCLA law professor Doug Lichtman hosts.
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Copyrights and patents have come to be called “intellectual property,” a phrase which suggests that they are much akin to ordinary property. They are not: they are a government grant of monopoly power. The argument in favour of intellectual property must then be that these monopolies provide important offsetting incentives for innovation and creation.
However, all the available evidence suggests that patents and copyrights are a failure, and inhibit innovation and creativity at least as much they encourage it.
In this lively and entertaining lecture, Dr. David Levine documents the history of intellectual property, arguing that the best strategy for stimulating creativity in 21st century society is to eliminate copyrights and patents entirely.
SFU/BMO Bank of Montreal Lecture Series