Book: The Case for Copyright Reform

Pirate MEP Christian Engström and Pirate Party founder Rick Falkvinge just presented their book The Case for Copyright Reform in the European Parlament.

On the web page www.copyrightreform.eu you can find it for free in various electronic formats (PDF, ePub, OD etc.). If you are on a mobile phone, you might want to go to the mobile-friendly minimalistic HTML-file, to start reading on your browser at once.

And if you are sitting by your computer, and have Flash installed, you can read it right here, right now:

Open publication - Free publishing

Do you prefer a book on paper? Order it at Lulu (ww) or Books on Demand (Scandinavia).

Harvard Business Review: "Big Content" Is Strangling Innovation

Here is an American perspective...

Harvard Business Review: "Big Content" Is Strangling American Innovation

I principle, the same can be said about Europe. The music and film industries unwillingnes to adopt to new technology and to a changing market damages innovation climate, growth and development.

Copying Is Not Theft

Our free culture anthem gets a fabulous arrangement by Nik Phelps. Vocals by Connie Champagne. Animation and song by Nina Paley.

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When Copyright Goes Bad

A film by Ben Cato Clough and Luke Upchurch.

Suddenly, copyright rules no longer do what they are supposed to do. They have gone bad.

This is a film about how copyright has become one of the most important consumer issues of the digital age; why corporate lobbying risks criminalising the actions of hundreds of thousands of people; and what the future holds for the fight for fairer copyright laws.

When Copyright Goes Bad is an introduction to the renegotiation of copyright and is for anyone interested in how copyright is affecting consumers. It features some of the key players in the copyright debate, including:

Fred Von Lohmann - Electronic Frontier Foundation; Michael Geist - University of Ottawa Law School; Jim Killock - Open Rights Group; and Hank Shocklee - Co-founder of Public Enemy.

For more, visit www.A2Knetwork.org/film

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Lawrence Lessig on Copyright laws

Stanford Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig talks about the problems and shortcomings of current copyright laws and discusses solutions on how to revise copyright laws to end the war on prohibition and build on a new hybrid economy.

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How Intellectual Property Hampers Capitalism

Presented by Stephan Kinsella at the 2010 Mises Institute Supporters Summit. Recorded in Auburn, Alabama; 9 October 2010.

Stephan Kinsellas web-page.

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Michele Boldrin: Against Intellectual Monopoly

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Cato Institute . Book Forum . November 10, 2008

http://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=5362

Larry Lessig: Creativity is being strangled by law

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The Future of Copyright

The Future of Copyright from Bobby Martiniello on Vimeo.

Podcast: Boldrin on Intellectual Property

From EconTalk, Libary of Economics and Liberty:

"Michele Boldrin of Washington University in St. Louis talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about intellectual property and Boldrin's book, co-written with David Levine, Against Intellectual Property." 

"Boldrin argues that copyright and patent are used by the politically powerful to maintain monopoly profits. He argues that the incentive effects that have been used to justify copyright and patents are exaggerated–few examples from history suggest that the temporary and not-so-temporary monopoly power from copyright and patents were necessary to induce innovation." 

"Boldrin reviews some of that evidence and talks about the nature of competition."

Listen directly / download the podcast as an MP3-file, download the book (legally) and find relevant links here. »

What is Creative Commons?

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Creative Commons - A Shared Culture

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Lecture: How do the Artists get Paid?

Here you can find documentation from the seminar "How can Europes Creators get a Fair Deal in the Digital World?" in the European Parliament.

Read, see and listen to Professor Roger Wallis and Dr Lars-Erik Eriksson:

Sound file (MP3, 28,7 MB)
PowerPoint-slides
Video at Vimeo
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