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Bowie Bonds

The value of stocks will rise and fall with popularity. As a producer this plays havock on the value of your productions, and thus you use copyright to protect access and thus control, to a degree, the value of your work. With file sharing at notably high levels, contolling access Continue reading »

• 23rd Aug, 2006
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Berkman Center Podcasts

The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University has a number of great podcasts related to openbusiness; including Traci Fenton of WorldBlu on "organizational democracy," Yochai Benkler on "The Wealth of Networks" (a great introduction to his book of the same Continue reading »

• 19th Aug, 2006
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Illegal Computers

The age of illegal computers in Brazil is about to come to an end. In 2004, the South American nation was on its way to becoming world leader in the trade of illegal computers, as 74% of the machines sold collected no taxes Continue reading »

• 15th Aug, 2006
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Netaudio London > 15 – 16 September 2006

Netaudio '06 - London Netlabel Festival

After Netaudio’05 in Berne and Netaudio V2.05 in Cologne, it is time for the London installment of the series with Netaudio’06: the London Netlabel Festival. Netaudio’06 is a celebration of the communal effort Continue reading »

• 9th Aug, 2006
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Create your own Prime Time TV

A new age is dawning for television. Democracy player by the Participatory Culture Foundation is a free, open source, open content player which is downloadable might change the way we watch television forever. Even though the player has been around for Continue reading »

• 7th Aug, 2006
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Money, Lies and Music

“The copyright regime encourages creativity and safeguards the livelihood of artists”. This is the major claim, in many variations, which is made in support of the way the copyright system works. Why? Well, presumably, because it’s a good way to collect and Continue reading »

• 1st Aug, 2006
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Crowdsourcing – No Way Back

A term not yet recognised by spellcheck programs has been coined by Jeff Howe writing for last months Wired magazine. Influenced by the open-source culture and outsourcing by companies, the idea of crowdsourcing has the potential to overthrow the traditional relationships Continue reading »

• 28th Jul, 2006
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Building a license better than the GPL

Copyright licenses seem to matter - millions are using Creative Commons and the perhaps biggest collaborative, collective effort of our times - Free Software - is based on the GPL. The General Public License has been the beacon for how to develop large Continue reading »

• 28th Jul, 2006
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How to Build an Online Community

Building an Online Community

This is a summary of succesful strategies for building and developing online communities.

What is an online community/social network?

A good community is one where people meet and have the possibility exchange ideas about specific or general topics. Good social networks Continue reading »

• 20th Jul, 2006
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P2P Finance – Follow Up

Another site has come to our attention in the P2P finance category: Fundable.com offers the opportunity for a group of people to collect money for a specific goal. This group of people can be a closed group of friends planning a Continue reading »

• 18th Jul, 2006
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