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Closed Data
Was ist eigentlich das Gegenteil von „Open Data“, und was sind die Hintergründe weshalb nicht grundsätzlich schon alles „Open Data“ ist?
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Closed Data
Was ist eigentlich das Gegenteil von „Open Data“, und was sind die Hintergründe weshalb nicht grundsätzlich schon alles „Open Data“ ist?
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Whining about copyright violations? Shut the fuck up!
A world fragmented I recently got “upgraded” from google android market to “google play” which supposedly lets you also buy movies, music and books apart from android apps. Guess what? We’re sorry. The Google Play music player is currently only available in the United States. And We’re sorry, the document you requested is not available…
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Whining about copyright violations? Shut the fuck up!
A world fragmented I recently got “upgraded” from google android market to “google play” which supposedly lets you also buy movies, music and books apart from android apps. Guess what? We’re sorry. The Google Play music player is currently only available in the United States. And We’re sorry, the document you requested is not available…
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An Intellectual Poverty Law
Upon my research on 18th and early 19th century England, I stumbled upon a process that was taking place from the 16th to the 19th century in rural England. It’s enclosure. Basically, the medieval system is, that a village has, in addition to the fields of the individual farmers, a large commons, where all the…
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An Intellectual Poverty Law
Upon my research on 18th and early 19th century England, I stumbled upon a process that was taking place from the 16th to the 19th century in rural England. It’s enclosure. Basically, the medieval system is, that a village has, in addition to the fields of the individual farmers, a large commons, where all the…
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Competing against illegal copies
I was somewhat baffled about the success of Apples iTunes-Store. As I detailed in an earlier article Schwarzkopien und Marktwirtschaft in german, illegal providers of copies of works are effectively a competition to legitimate providers. In principle, they offer the same product for less money. Market says, in that case, people will acquire the cheaper…
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Lies, Damned Lies and Propaganda
Propaganda trumps scientific evidence everytime. Face it, there is nothing like propaganda, backed by some hearsay evidence and a few vivid examples. And science cannot offer anything to counter that. It used to be “Statistics” in that title-phrase, but that’s not true anymore, if it ever was. You don’t need statistics to make people believe…
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Ways out of Darkness – Re-Attenuating Copyright
I am a pretty verbose critic of todays copyright, and I highlighted several Issues in past blog-posts: Aufstand der Toten — per Urheberrecht On the consequences of granting rights beyond the death of the creator. Artificial Scarcity When old works compete with your new ones. Stealing from the Public Domain Indulging in Copyfraud by claiming…