Nicholas Bentley's link recommendations on Intellectual Proprety

We featured Nicholas Bentley’s proposals on Intellectual Property reform before. He recently send us some recommended resources on the subject.

Nicholas Bentley:

Innovation and intellectual property – National Consumer Council
“Traditionally, businesses and policy-makers have tended to think of consumers as being at the end of the value chain, choosing from the range of products and services offered by providers. This does not describe how value is created in a modern economy and the role consumers can, and do, play in innovation and the co-creation of products and services.”

Treat IP like real property

“I’ve got an easy solution to IP issues. Treat intellectual property just like real property. One of the big differences between IP and real estate is property taxes. Every year or two, someone comes by to assess the value of your property, and you pay a tax based on that. We could do the same with IP. The value of some patent is based on the money you make from it. The value of the patent would also go up a lot if you used it as the basis of a lawsuit too.”

The Adelphi Charter – Criteria for copyright, patents, trademarks and other intellectual property in the 21st Century

“Humanity’s capacity to generate new ideas and knowledge is its greatest asset. It is the source of art, science, innovation and economic development. Without it, individuals and societies stagnate. This creative imagination requires access to the ideas, learning and culture of others, past and present. Human rights call on us to ensure that everyone can create, access, use and share information and knowledge, enabling individuals, communities and societies to achieve their full potential.”

Information markets and the public domain
http://www.indicare.org/tiki

The journal article reviewed here (Holtgrewe 2005) attempts to explore the changing boundaries and interrelations of information markets and the public domain in the light of digital technology, digital goods and changing intellectual property regimes. The music sector and scientific publishing are the cases studied in more depth. The concepts used are derived from a sociology of knowledge understood as an interactionist and constructivist endeavour.\n

Intellectual Property, Communism and Contextuality

This paper explores current changes in German copyright legislation in two fields in which the digitalisation of creative works has changed the relationship between commercial and non-profit activities: the music industry and scientific publishing. For years the music industry has been facing a decreasing demand due to Internet distribution and filesharing networks and a lock-in of traditional business models. Scientific work is confronted with a supply crisis of information. The resources of libraries, which traditionally used to mediate commercial and non-profit activities, are dwindling while the role of commercial databases and meta -information systems for academic reputation is gaining importance.\n

Fair Use
Information markets and the public domain
The journal article reviewed here (Holtgrewe 2005) attempts to explore the changing boundaries and interrelations of information markets and the public domain in the light of digital technology, digital goods and changing intellectual property regimes. The music sector and scientific publishing are the cases studied in more depth. The concepts used are derived from a sociology of knowledge understood as an “interactionist” and “constructivist” endeavour.

Intellectual Property, Communism and Contextuality
This paper explores current changes in German copyright legislation in two fields in which the digitalisation of creative works has changed the relationship between commercial and non-profit activities: the music industry and scientific publishing. For years the music industry has been facing a decreasing demand due to Internet distribution and filesharing networks and a lock-in of traditional business models. Scientific work is confronted with a supply crisis of information. The resources of libraries, which traditionally used to mediate commercial and non-profit activities, are dwindling while the role of commercial databases and meta -information systems for academic reputation is gaining importance.

Fair Use
“Are increasingly heavy assertions of control by copyright and trademark owners smothering fair use and free expression? The product of more than a year of research, Will Fair Use Survive? paints a striking picture of an intellectual property system that is perilously out of balance.”
And also here:
“Fair use” is a crucial part of our copyright system. It allows any of us to quote and reproduce parts – or sometimes all – of copyrighted works, if the use advances creativity and democratic discussion. There are similar free expression safeguards in trademark law. Together, they assure that the owners of “intellectual property” cannot close down the free exchange of ideas. These safeguards in our copyright and trademark systems are at risk today.”

Internet Rights Forum
“This private body, supported by the French government, is a collective adventure: all the actors of the internet, private companies, non-profit organisations, public authorities and users are called to discuss and suggest the uses and rules of online activities. The Forum aims at finding a balance between self-regulation and legal regulation through open and pragmatic discussions. It will help to imagine and practise the virtual world through the debates it will organise on all legal aspects of the internet.”

Digital Rights Network

Providing news and commentary on intellectual property and the regulation of information in the digital environment from a public interest perspective.\n

Nick

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Nicholas Bentley
Providing news and commentary on intellectual property and the regulation of information in the digital environment from a public interest perspective.