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Cold Pizza Piracy
While waiting for inspiration to write my next article, I stumbled upon this ColdPizza Parody by Scott Lazar and others. I can’t help but think that translating a normal license to another area ends up as a hilarious parody makes … Continue reading
Tagged Church of IPR, Fun
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EU Database Directive: Hooray to faith-based legislation?
In February 1996, aEU directive called "Directive on the legal protection of Databases" was adopted to create a copyright-like 15 year monopoly on databases to "to protect their investment of time, money and effort, irrespective of whether the database is … Continue reading
Tagged Church of IPR, EU, Politics
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COLDPLAY hates Mozart, the damn pirate!
Digital Restrictions Management, as the experts call it, or DRM for short, is working hard to demotivate people from giving money to the musicians they listen to, as David Pakman, President & CEO, eMusic.com Inc.; Managing Director, Dimensional Associates, Inc.. … Continue reading
Tagged Church of IPR, DRM
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When doing good does bad
I am a fan of critical analysis and thinking, of going beyond and below superficial appearances and "what everybody knows." And in some cases, such articles dare to be questioning what most people take for granted based on nothing but … Continue reading
Tagged Articles, Church of IPR, Microsoft, UN, WIPO
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Microsoft “gets” 2 million EUR per day for X-Mas
Whatever you were wishing to receive for X-mas, I am pretty sure it was not a fine of 2 million EUR per day.This however is what Microsoft is finally about to receive in response to its failure to comply with … Continue reading
Fellowship signatures
I noticed that some people started using Fellowship signatures. Karsten Gerloff and myself go for the "keep it short & simple" approach: Join the Fellowship and protect your freedom! (www.fsfe.org) Ciaran O’Riordan already goes for a little more fancy: … Continue reading
Tagged Fellowship, Fun
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RMS Interview: Free Software as a Social Movement
For your pre-Christmas reading, and to possibly evade the stress this season usually brings, ZNet carries a very interesting interview with Richard Stallman, titled "Free Software as a Social Movement". For those familiar with his writings, much will be familiar, … Continue reading
Tagged Free Software, GNU
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IPI to the rescue of Microsoft… NOT!
Many of you will already know our good friend Mr Thomas Giovanetti of the of the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) from the WIPO reports of Karsten Gerloff ( "WIPO is not about creativity", "Free Software commies", "Lawrence Lessig is … Continue reading
Tagged Church of IPR, EU, Microsoft, UN, WIPO
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LACFREE 2005
As you may know, I am currently in Recife and Olinda in the Brazilian Northeast. While most people come here for vacation on some of the most beautiful beaches in the world, I hardly found time to enjoy any of … Continue reading
Tagged Conference, Free Software, Travel
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Fellowup on Vienna Manipulations
There has been quite a bit of very positive response to the GROKLAW article and the "Fellow Me: Say NO! to Vienna Manipulations" call. Thanks a lot to everyone who has written, raised awareness and joined the Fellowship! Also, thanks … Continue reading