| Here are a couple of opposites. The first link is about someone who, at his own expense, gives away (for personal use only) intellectual property. (Sounds like TestingTesting.) And the second link is about those who want to hoard and control the same.
Jacket
Jacket magazine is published quarterly on the Internet in January, April, July and October. It is free. (See the importunate kangaroo, below.) It was founded by John Tranter in a rash moment in 1997, to showcase lively poetry and prose. You can't actually subscribe to the magazine - just drop by every few weeks. The old issues will still be there, and the current number will be posted piece by piece until it's full.
Do drop by.
And on the other side - the dark side:
The End of Innovation?
by Richard Koman
2001 has been a bad year not just for dot-coms but also for people interested in preserving the public's right to fair use of copyright materials. From the shutdown of Napster and the DeCSS case to the prosecution of Dmitry Sklyarov, federal prosecutors and U.S. courts have acted in support of copyright interests and against the public's ability to use technology to secure fair-use rights. OpenP2P.com editor Richard Koman talked about these turns of events with Lawrence Lessig, a leading expert in Internet law and policy and a keynote speaker at the O'Reilly Conference on Peer-to-Peer and Web Services.
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