links for 2007-05-31
- Lessig On “The Cult Of The Amateur” “But what is puzzling about this book is that it purports to be a book attacking the sloppiness, error and ignorance of the Internet, yet it itself is shot through with sloppiness, error and ignorance. “ (tags: review fisk amateur lessig)
- Boing Boing: Weinberger talks about Everything is Miscellaneous “how the Internet is exposing and undermining the arbitrary categories we use for knowledge, social organization, and employment.” (tags: ontology critique internet)
- James Purnell speech to IPPR – ‘Making Britain The World's Creative Hub' | theideafeed.com “Third, we need to modernise our intellectual property framework, and in places it may need to be strengthened.” (tags: ip-maximalism uk)
- Boing Boing: Copyright’s Authorship Policy: how to make an art-neutral copyright “Tim goes on to suggest a simple and cunning mechanism for minimizing copyright’s impact on authorship, a method that will allow the largest variety in art and expression. This is great stuff” (tags: copyright critique policy)
- Definition – Definition of Free Cultural Works “Freedom Defined” is now at version 1.0. Good stuff. (tags: free-culture definition)