Intellectual Property and Open Movements (IP&OM)

Issues and developments related to Intellectual Property (e.g. Copyright, Fair Use, Patents, Trademarks, Trade Secrets) and Open Movements (e.g. Open Access, Open Data, Open Educational Resources (OER)), examined in the "Intellectual Property and Open Movements" and "Ethics of Data, Information, and Emerging Technologies" graduate courses I teach at the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. -- Kip Currier, PhD, JD

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Saturday, October 31, 2009

Will Three Strikes Ever Really Get Implemented In The UK?; TechDirt, 10/30/09

Mike Masnick, TechDirt; Will Three Strikes Ever Really Get Implemented In The UK?:

"With Peter Mandelson announcing this week (as everyone expected) that he's going to introduce a proposal to kick file sharers off the internet under a "three strikes" plan, it's been amusing watching defenders of this idea try and fail to answer the question "how will this make people buy more stuff." ...

But, perhaps an even bigger question is whether or not it will ever actually get implemented in the UK."

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091030/0328096729.shtml