Tag Archives: Free Culture

Government for the People Makes You Special

Posted on February 26, 2010 by Lloyd

“It turns out that the International Intellectual Property Alliance, an umbrella group for organisations including the MPAA and RIAA, has requested with the US Trade Representative to consider countries like Indonesia, Brazil and India for its “Special 301 watchlist” because they … Continue reading →

Posted in Free Culture, Open Source | Also tagged Andres Guadamuz, Brazil, copyright, Copyright Laws, IIPA, Indonesia, intellectual property, IP, MPAA, Open Source, RIAA, secretive anti-counterfeiting treaty, Special 301, Special 301 Watchlist, TPM, US Government, US Lobby Groups, Watch List | Leave a comment

WordPress Declaration of Independence

Posted on January 22, 2010 by Lloyd

The WordPress Foundation is a charitable organization founded by Matt Mullenweg to further the mission of the WordPress open source project: to democratize publishing through Open Source, GPL software.
The point of the foundation is to ensure free access, in perpetuity, to … Continue reading →

Posted in Free Culture, Open Source, WordPress | Also tagged 501(c)3 non-profit organization, GNU Public License, GPL, Matt Mullenweg, Non-Profit, Open Source, Web Publishing, WordPress, WordPress Foundation, WordPress.com | 1 Comment

Counterfeit Intellectual Property

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Lloyd

What’s interesting is that there’s clearly a collateral campaign underway to support ACTA by hammering on the wickedness of counterfeiting – allowing the bait and switch game to be played again. Here’s an example:
Canada trails far behind the United States, United … Continue reading →

Posted in Free Culture | Also tagged contentious labels, copyright law, DMCA, implicit viewpoints, intellectual property, pejorative labels | Leave a comment

Free and Open Source from the Roots Up

Posted on October 2, 2009 by Lloyd

“Free and open source from the roots up. “Open source” can be much more than a development methodology. For me, it also constitutes a world view that upends institutionalized notions of competitive advantage that saw their apex in the twentieth … Continue reading →

Posted in Free Culture, Open Source | Also tagged Automattic, codepoet, Free and Open Source from the Roots Up, Matt Mullenweg, Open Source, Paul Kim, Toni Schneider, Upends institutionalized notions of competitive advantage, WordPress, WordPress.com VIPs | 5 Comments

Develop diverse widespread community commitment

Posted on October 19, 2006 by Lloyd

Chris Messina in response to his own post (with a little help from Richard MacManus):

Posted in Collaborating, Firefox, Free Culture, Humanity | Also tagged Chris Messina, Firefox, Firefox 2, Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 7, Open Source | Leave a comment

Knowledge that expires

Posted on August 7, 2006 by Lloyd

While reading my blog buddy Don Dodge’s blog, I went down a trail that led me to MySpace faces call to crack down on predators. I am interested in reading this article because it sounds relevant to all online communities. … Continue reading →

Posted in Collaborating | Also tagged collaborating, Communicating, knowledge, Reuters | 1 Comment

Licensing is the suck!

Posted on July 27, 2006 by Lloyd

As I recently wrote the obvious, “licensing is legal, and legal things are complex”. I should have wrote, licensing is the suck!
When ever I start thinking about licensing and it being the suck, I think to Lawrence Lessig’s keynote presentation … Continue reading →

Posted in Collaborating | Also tagged A theft of our common culture, bsd, cc, collaborating, copy, copyright wars, create, Create like itâ€™s 1790, creative, creative commons, creativity, eff, fair use, free society, gnu, GPL, harm, Help us by writing on the check you send in, I got to go back to my life., If you are explaining, If You Are unwilling to Fight For Your Freedom . . . Yo, innovation, intellectual property, it was nature in 179, license, licensing, nature, no-brainer, Nothingâ€™s changed, Open Source, Open Source Movement, patent, patents, property, rebuilding nature, share, unregulated, unregulated use, What have you done about it, you are losing, You build a common base that other people can build upo | 3 Comments

Pirates don’t steal digitalized information

Posted on May 18, 2006 by Lloyd

The term piracy when referring to theft of digitalized information is ridiculous. Piracy is a vile act involving theft, kidnapping and murder still committed today in the world’s oceans, and seeming on the increase, it has nothing to do with … Continue reading →

Posted in Free Culture | Also tagged contentious labels, copyright law, DMCA, implicit viewpoints, pejorative labels | Leave a comment