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The Recasting of Copyright & Related Rights for the Knowledge Economy

by Balazs Bodo, posted on April 7, 2007 - 5:55pm.

P.B. Hugenholtz, M.M.M. van Eechoud, S.J. van Gompel et al., from U. of Amsterdam, Institute of Information Law have published their report to the European Commission on The Recasting of Copyright & Related Rights for the Knowledge Economy.

Substantive Tags: intellectual property
Free tags: Europe, policy

Lessig joins RIAA board of directors

by Balazs Bodo, posted on April 2, 2007 - 12:01am.

Here are some of the April Fool's news from the file-sharing universe. The scary thing is, that they are (or should be) all real alternatives, and each and every prank shows a solution to the current problems.

Lawrence Lessig joins RIAA board of directors

Pirates and Hollywood

by Balazs Bodo, posted on March 17, 2007 - 1:19pm.

I am researching for my talk to be delivered to the International Intellectual Property Program at Chicago-Kent Law School.

Free tags: hollywood, piracy

It’s not the technology, stupid

by Balazs Bodo, posted on March 9, 2007 - 7:23pm.

I had an AHAAA moment last night reading Martha Woodmansee’s „ The Author, Art, and the Market”. She writes „As my sketch of writers’ struggles suggests, eighteenth-century Germany found itself in a transitional phase between the limited patronage of an aristocratic age and the democratic patronage of the marketplace.

Copynorms

by Balazs Bodo, posted on March 2, 2007 - 12:32pm.

In the last few weeks I bumped into several articles addressing the question why people feel OK to up- and download mp3s despite all the laws and legal threats, and how to close the gap between existing copyright legislation and social norms, norms that seem to have a much greater effect on how people behave than laws.

Turning point in copyright infringement cases

by Balazs Bodo, posted on February 5, 2007 - 12:24pm.

This is the most important thing that has happened on the intellectual property front lately. Former Soviet president Gorbachev asks Microsoft's Bill Gates not to pursue IP litigation against a high school teacher in Perm who used pirated software in classroom because:

- he is poor
- he has dedicated his life to teaching

How public opinion on artistic practices changes

by Balazs Bodo, posted on January 25, 2007 - 9:31pm.

First it was "Rip! Mix! and Burn!" Now it is simply just "Burn!"

www.warsystems.hu

by Balazs Bodo, posted on November 25, 2006 - 6:17pm.

Please see my research blog at www.warsystems.hu, where i post news clipping from the world of intellectual property and file-sharing daily.

Substantive Tags: intellectual property
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