New paper on Remix Rights
When Ronald Coase passed away last year, it occurred to me that no one had really applied a Coasian framework to the characterisation of copyright regimes.
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The Irony of Public Funding
Misunderstandings and misstatements perennially pervade any debate about public funding of research and development. That must be so for any topic involving public money, almost by definition, but arguments about funding for scientific research and development contain a unique and special irony.
An important development for fair use on YouTube
There has been much discussion regarding YouTube’s approaches to copyright protection.
Uber’s tough market design challenge
Uber has a difficult challenge. Faced with voracious interest group attacks, every misstep is a potential public relations problem.
It’s not complicated, just chill
I have just finished danah boyd’s new book, It’s Complicated: The Social Life of Networked Teens. danah was (and still is) a researcher at Microsoft Research when I was there in 2011. I didn’t interact with her too much as I was focussed on other matters but it always struck me that her investigations into the behaviour of teenagers would prove very interesting. The book does not disappoint in that regard. I couldn’t put it down.
Apple’s goto fail is pretty interesting and worth reading about
I update my Apple devices regularly so when, four days ago, a security alert was issued and then an iOS software update appeared, I did not think too much about it.
Coase, Net Neutrality and Netflix
Comcast and Netflix have come to a deal on ‘peering.’ Ba
Why the mobile operating system market won’t tip
Fear of tipping dominates information technology. The most famous example of this was PC and Mac where an orientation towards business led to a greater variety of software titles being available for Windows than Mac which wasn’t dislodged until the use of the Internet became the primary use case for a computer. But today, where the primary use case remains on-machine software, Microsoft dominates (i.e., in Enterprise).
WhatsApp to Facebook? Strategic compatibility, that’s What
There’s nothing like $19 billion dollars to set the cat amongst the pigeons. And what’s more for something most people even those tech savvy neither use and, in many cases, haven’t heard of.