...nufacturing marketing - is the continuation of a long term trend. Consider music for instance. Streaming audio on the internet ("soft radio"), or dow... ...le MP3 files may render the CD obsolete - but they were preceded by radio music broadcasts. But the novelty is that the Internet provides a venue fo... ...very substantially. Content creators can thus concentrate on what they do best: content creation, and reduce their overhead by outsourcing the funct... ...his simple business model does to entrenched and age old notions such as "original" and "copies", copyright, and book identifiers. What is the "ori... ...l product, composed and selected by him? What about the copyrights of the original authors? Or take BookCrossing.com. On the face of it, it present... ... and an alphabetically arranged series of in-depth essays authored by the best in every field of human erudition. When the CD-ROM erupted on the... ...y agencies (like the Better Business Bureau - BBB, VeriSign, TRUSTe) - or awards won (from credible and reputable organizations). Links from other, ... ...ks from such "bad" Websites actually contribute negatively to the overall score. The top results in all 154 keywords I have been diligently monitori... ...990 to 1995 President of the Israel chapter of the Professors World Peace Academy (PWPA) and (briefly) Israel representative of the "Washington Time...

...a brilliant composer, not only educated me in composition and the history of musical borrowing but co-taught a class on musical borrowing that dramati... ...s, and Carol Rose. Kembrew McLeod and Siva Vaidhyanathan inspired my work on music and sampling. Peter Jaszi was named in my last book as the person w... ... book as the person who most influenced it. That influence remains. Beyond the academy, my main debt is to the board members and staff of Creative Commo... ...he environment, or civil rights, or the way the economy works. I will try my best to be fair, to explain the issues and give both sides of the argumen... ...right and patent law give me a limited right to exclude other people from my original expression or my novel invention. Why create such a right and ba... ...f-regulating cultural policy in which the right to exclude others from one’s original expression fuels a vibrant public sphere indirectly driven by po... ...on fuels a vibrant public sphere indirectly driven by popular demand. At its best, it is supposed to allow a decentralized and iconoclastic cultural f... ...Congress? To the defendants, DeCSS looked like a physics equation, a musical score, or a recipe. To the movie studios, DeCSS had all the First Amendme... ...implicitly underscored this point in a series of cases concern- ing football scores, horse racing results, and so on. Rejecting a protectionist and on...

...Our music, our culture, our science, and our economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Do...