Promising new book (free online) from Jamie Boyle.
if i could tag this ip with both meanings of the term, i would
"Trying to shift the burden of proof back onto themselves, I asked why they don't contribute to the open-source projects from which they derive so much value. Many indicated that it's too hard to contribute back to open-source projects due to internal legal issues and the high bar to knowing how to contribute. They suggested that they would instead prefer to pay the open-source companies to do that work for them."
"Benkler attributes their success to ways they have found to assure contributors that when you produce you will be able to control what you produce. Cash doesn’t change hands. The challenge is to learn about human collaboration in general from these web-based examples. In Benkler’s words “replacing Leviathan with a collaborative system.â€"
Beautiful, eloquent response to a Revealing Error post. "In the real world, police and prosecutors can’t help but exercise discretion with every decision they make. And while it’s true there is rampant abuse of the power to decide when to drop the legal hammer on some schlub’s life, that discretion is the humanity in our justice system. People are messy and inconsistent, but only human judgments yield human justice."
References to a great series of articles on Slate on non-enforcement of laws in the United States by Tim Wu.
Weird. In a good way! The NY Times and John Markoff seems to have made an about-face in their representation of free software. Awesome
