GPL v3 v3

(via House of Commons and Groklaw) The third draft of the GPL version 3 is now available for comment. I haven’t had much time to go through it in detail, so I will be making comments later, mostly building on previous praises and criticisms here, here and here. However, one Read more…

Brussels

I’m in Brussels for a workshop of a European project on creating an E-Infrastructure for E-Science Digital Repositories. We are discussing legal and economic aspects of digital repositories.

Pirates complain about P2P

This is an excellent read from TorrentFreak. They interview a real pirate, one of those people who makes physical copies of copyright content and sells it in marketplaces, car-boots or pubs. Tony, a physical pirate, complains that P2P has stolen their sales, and they have had to close down some Read more…

P2P in the news

This is yet another well-informed technology article from The Guardian on P2P, IP and downloads. I often complain about journalistic inaccuracies, but praise where it’s due, sometimes they get it right.

Virtual communities and IP

The Beeb runs a story on a new report by research consultants Screen Digest on the Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming (MMOG) market. The big headline in the report is that the MMOG market has now passed the $1 billion USD revenue mark from subscriptions worldwide. While big revenue is to Read more…