Author and digital rights activist Cory Doctorow sheds light on the twisted logic connecting publishers, ebooks, DRM and user lock-in into certain ebook platforms.

Brand Eins, certainly one of the best business magazines in Germany, inquires into the way copyright works - or fails to work - in a digital context. It's a long, in-depth interview in German. Well worth reading.

The copyright system is pretty badly broken. Duke University's Center for the Study of the Public Domain shows a few of the cultural works that would have entered the Public Domain - allowing you to reproduce, remix, and share them - under the copyright law in it's 1978 version. That is, before copyright was extended from formerly 28 years after publication to last ridiculously long, namely for 70 years after the author's death. There is a whole treasure trove of culture, locked away and in many cases inaccessible.

RT @maxsenges: #Copyright #CoLab auf Heise: Google-Denkfabrik fordert grundlegende Neuausrichtung des Urheberrecht

RT @doctorow: 1st #copyright fight over #3Dprinting ends without bloodshed, but things are just heating up

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And so as I said at the top (in my "bottom line"), I have decided to shift my academic work, and soon, my activism, away from the issues that have consumed me for the last 10 years, towards a new set of issues: Namely, these. "Corruption" as I've defined

Great documentary about copyright (2007)

Cory Doctorow's students blog on DRM, Trusted Computing and the like.

great! and available as PDF

article on copyright, DVD distribution etc, interview, good quotes