August 12, 2005
More on whether open source can outcompete proprietary solutions
There's more this week on whether open
source can outcompete proprietary solutions--this time from the
Wall Street Journal.
According to the article, entitled "Linux Feels Growing Pains As Users ...
August 12, 2005
Intellectual property and its discontents--Washington Times
Just to make sure that IP Blog is a complete
repository of the work done by affiliates of IPI, I thought I'd put a link
to a piece I wrote in late 2004, "Intellectual Property and Its Discontents,"
...
August 12, 2005
Thanks to IPCentral for complements and linking
Thanks
to Jim DeLong at IPCentral for linking
to our piece on a
recent switch from Linux to Microsoft products.
And thanks for the complement.
Looking forward to seeing you all in
Aspen
nex ...
August 12, 2005
IP oversight costs "Dukes of Hazzard" big-time
Here's
an interesting story about how an intellectual property oversight cost
the makers of the "Duke's of Hazzard" movie a little over half
of their first week's gross.
It's mainly interesting ...
August 11, 2005
Pioneering users of open source software revert to Microsoft
According to this
article in ComputerWeekly, Central
Scotland Police, which "pioneered the use of open source, including
Linux desktops," is switching back to Microsoft products.
Central
Scotla ...
August 9, 2005
Libertarians and IP over at IPCentral
Solveig Singleton, occasional
policy resource for IPI and
more frequent blogger over at IP
Central, is
undertaking a series on the views of Libertarians on IP.
I'll be following it with inter ...
August 3, 2005
Okay, so which side in the IP battle is it that engages in extreme, utopian, moralistic rhetoric?
Okay, so let's
read this interview with Cory
Doctorow of EFF and see who's rhetoric is the more extreme and inflammatory,
that of the defenders of the property-rights model of innovation, or that
...
July 31, 2005
The Copyfighters take on IP Blog
The copyfighters over at, well, Copyfight,
have
taken on IP Blog.
I'm there, as you might guess.
As I say in my comments, almost every one of these IP skeptics who have
blogged about IP Blo ...
July 30, 2005
U.S. anti-piracy lawyer in China has plenty of job security
Thanks to my colleague Merrill Matthews
for bringing this
story to my attention.
It's a profile of Mark Cohen, an IP
lawyer with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, on loan to the U.S. Embassy ...
July 26, 2005
New IP enforcement position within the US gov't
Here's
a quick blurb on the new position
that has been created within the U.S. government for intellectual property
enforcement. ...
July 26, 2005
Who is opposed to the patent reform bill?
If you were wondering who was going to
be opposed to the patent reform legislation in the US this fall, here
is one answer.
The Professional
Inventors Alliance USA wants
to preserve the first- ...
July 26, 2005
I know you think I'm exaggerating about these IP skeptics . . .
I know you think I'm exaggerating about
the extremism of these IP skeptics.
Well, check this out. Here is the blog of a guy who is apparently an intern
with the Free Software Foundation. I know ...
July 26, 2005
IP Watch's coverage of IPI's intervention at WIPO
William New's biased little IP
Watch journal mentions
IPI's intervention at WIPO's IIM/3,
as well as the little incident where I confronted the person who accused
me of misreading Article 27 of th ...
July 26, 2005
Luminousvoid doesn't like IPBlog.org
Luminousvoid
doesn't see the humor in our "show me your open source tee shirts"
episode.
Because LV has no sense of humor when it comes to these things, he can
only assume that we at IPBlog don ...
July 26, 2005
"Creative Commons Humbug"
I just KNEW I liked John Dvorak . . .
While Dvorak wants shorter copyright terms and perhaps a larger public
domain, he says things I've been saying in this column, "Creative
Commons Humbug."
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