Technollama is coming to you today from the Playfair Library, where we are attending the very interesting conference named “Towards Utopia or Irreconcilable Tensions: the interface between intellectual property, competition and human rights“. More reports later, but I am hoping Read more
This is an interesting article in the excellent WorldChanging blog. The article looks at the possibility of using open source models in drugs and biotechnology. Although the article cites many of the possible uses for the technology, it fails to Read more
2004 has been the year of the blog. The BBC reports that the word “blog” has now been included in the Merriam-Webster dictionary. The definition reads: “BLOG noun [short for Weblog] (1999) : a Web site that contains an online Read more
This is a rather good report in The Register that talks about the digital divide in the United States, where internet access is still the realm of the high-income white guy. The idea of the cosmopolitan world wide web is Read more
SCO’s website has been defaced by hackers for two days running. The website’s masthead was changed with a new banner that read “We own all your code – pay us all your money“. SCO has become the favourite target of Read more
The movie industry keeps flexing their muscles to fight piracy. They have won a case against a website that charged its users to download music. Good for them! This serves to lend momentumn to their efforts to sue P2P users Read more
The Register brings two stories that are relevant to the music download debate. The first one is that music sales in the UK are still increasing, with growth in the last year of 2.1%. Wait a second! Aren’t music downloads Read more
This is sort of old (from last Tuesday), but I haven’t seen it posted elsewhere. The heirs of the sculptor Paul Landowski, who is the author of the famous Christ the Redeemer statute in Rio de Janeiro, are asking for Read more
Remember Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall”? Remember the chorus of kids singing “We don’t need to education”? Now, those kids are asking for the royalties that they are due from the recording of those famous lyrics. EMI, Pink Read more
This is an interesting exchange of ideas about open access journals between Matthew Cockerill, the editor of BioMed Central, and John Enderby, vice-president of the Royal Society. The centre of the debate is about the fact that publicly funded research Read more