There is an interesting legal dispute arising over the use of data licensed under Creative Commons. AOL owns CrunchBase, which is a free database of technology companies, people, and investors; AOL acquired it as part of their deal to purchase Read more…
What a difference a scandal makes. Turn your minds, if you may, to December 2012. The Syrian civil war enters one of its most deadly passages. The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton and Bruce Springsteen perform a benefit concert for victims Read more…
The Internet began with the forging of the Great Rings Three were given to the Root Servers Immortal, wisest, and fairest of all beings Seven to the Engineers Great miners and craftsmen of the mountain halls And nine, Nine Rings Read more…
The Long Tail is dead. The Long Tail is a theory penned by Wired editor Chris Anderson which states that the rise in digital markets, and the slow demise of brick and mortar shops, particularly in media and entertainment, will Read more…
A special issue of SCRIPTed, a Journal of Law and Technology, is now live for your enjoyment. This issue has some papers from the last BILETa conference in Liverpool, and it has the added bonus that this will be the Read more…
Judith Rauhofer has sent me this gem of a patent. I present you U.S. patent 6,935,954 which protects a “Sanity system for video game”. The abstract reads: “A video game and game system incorporating a game character’s sanity level that Read more…
I have been toying with an impossible idea. Can the Internet be rebuilt? I am starting with a simple premise: the current Internet is broken. It is no secret that many of the protocols that make up the Web were Read more…
So far, the most serious report to arise from the NSA files has been the revelation that US authorities have been involved in a systematic program to defeat Internet encryption. By any objective measure, the revelations are astounding: intelligence agencies Read more…
New issue of SCRIPTed is now live: Issue DOI: 10.2966/scrip.100213 Cover Matrix Code David.Asch Playing with long exposure zoom. CC-BY-SA on Flickr. Editorial Copyright Management for Open Collaborative Projects –Inbound Licensing Models for Open Innovation Catharina Maracke, pp.140-148 | HTML Read more…
The Guardian has reported that on July 20th 2013, “shadowy” government officials destroyed several hard drives in their offices, under threat of legal action that would make it impossible to continue publishing stories about the NSA surveillance scandal. These devices Read more…