THOUGHT FREEDOM: Why copyright is backwards in a world of One
There’s always been a debate over who “discovered” that the Earth is round. Pythagoras apparently suggested the idea around 570 BC, but it was Eratosthenes who ...
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INTERNET RIGHTS: The impact of the Internet on human rights [infographic]
The Internet impacts our lives in many ways. One aspect of our lives that it has a big impact on is our human rights. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights for example...
STONE SOUP: Peer-to-Peer networks as the basis of a gift economy
Stone Soup is a Brothers Grimm fable found in many different versions all across Europe about the benefits of cooperation and selflessness. According to the story...
Online censorship blocks creative expression
Artists have lots of problems. We get plagiarized, ripped off by publishers, savaged by critics, counterfeited—and we even get our works copied by "pirates" who give our stuff away for free online...
OPEN SOURCE JOURNALISM: Jay Rosen profile
Jay Rosen was born in Buffalo, NY, in 1956. Both sides of his family were Jewish immigrants from Poland: one grandfather arrived in North America via New York, the other via Toronto. Rosen's...