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Intellectual Property

Articles concerning the intellectual property issues surrounding web publishing.

The heart of the matter

by Giles Turnbull -- 2003-02-07

Noah Grey wrote a piece of software called Greymatter, and with it helped the blogosphere take its first hesitant steps into the limelight. Then he kind of disappeared, and then he kind of came back again. Last week, he kindly agreed to spill his heart to WriteTheWeb, about Greymatter, blogs (and hating the word "blog"), copyright, and spirituality.

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Standing up against legal threats

by Giles Turnbull -- 2002-03-19

Small-time web publishers, fanzine writers, and webloggers have had little or no chance of standing up against The Man when sent a legal letter or email asking them to "cease and desist" with whatever it is they are publishing online. Not until now, that is, thanks to the arrival of Chilling Effects.

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Controlling the moving image

by Giles Turnbull -- 2002-03-01

The movie industry wants to avoid getting Napstered at all costs. It is taking unprecedented steps to protect moving images from being digitally copied.

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Did you hear the one about the copyrighted joke?

by Giles Turnbull -- 2002-02-18

Just to prove how hard it can be to keep control over copyrighted material on the net, one author has been horrified to find his work widely circulated by email.

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Alternatives to copyright

by Giles Turnbull -- 2002-02-13

Why should we stick with copyright, when we could come up with something else that would work better for digital media? Lawrence Lessig is working on it.

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Watch those radical librarians

by Simon St.Laurent -- 2001-07-12

The Association of American Publishers seems to find libraries and the free sharing of information they promote to be dangerously radical stuff.

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The future of music

by Giles Turnbull -- 2001-07-09

Last week, some of the best minds from the music industry got together to hammer out, in public, what the future holds for digital music now that Napster appears to be dead in the water. Believe it or not, some industry insiders are finally beginning to Get It.

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Copyright and the right to link

by Giles Turnbull -- 2001-01-15

One of the most fundamental things about the web is that you can link any page to any other page, right? Yeah, we kind of thought that too...

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Fear of being Napstered

by Giles Turnbull -- 2000-10-05

What are non-musical artists to make of Napster, or more importantly, the spawn of Napster? With the digitisation of all media, artists want some way of preventing their works being Napstered the way Metallica's songs were.

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Making content pay

by Giles Turnbull -- 2000-08-31

How do you make good content pay? If copyright really is dead (see WtW stories passim), what should a webmaster who wants to create something special do to protect the valuable material he or she wants to create?

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File sharing is freedom

by Giles Turnbull -- 2000-08-24

Even if Napster is doomed to be closed down by the courts, the concept of file sharing will live on, according to BT's technology guru Peter Cochrane.

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Copyright is dead

by Giles Turnbull -- 2000-08-17

Napster was just the beginning. The record industry has decided to fight it, but the cat is out of the bag already. Now people have discovered that they can trade just about any media over the net, royalty-free. People who create original content - of any kind - are wondering what they should do to protect their interests.

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The lawless internet

by Giles Turnbull -- 2000-08-15

What are webmasters to do about lawlessness online? With the recent media exposure of the katie.com row, who can be sure that their domain is safe from the interests of big business?

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crude's Home Page

by crude's Home -- 2004-01-11

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