...ts reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – writ... ...free substitutes to every information product, no matter how superior. Web based media companies (such as Salon and Britannica.com) have been experim... ...tes to every information product, no matter how superior. Web based media companies (such as Salon and Britannica.com) have been experimenting with p... ... Sam Vaknin Are content brokers - publishers, distributors, and record companies - a thing of the past? In one word: disintermediation The... ... will seek to distinguish oneself, to "brand" oneself and to auction one's services, ideas, products, designs, experience, physique, or biography, et... ...etamorphose. This is because they fulfil a few functions and provide a few services whose importance is only enhanced by the "free for all" Internet ... ...ly given a bad name to whole segments of the industry (e.g., small, or web-based publishers). Consumers - inundated, disappointed and exhausted - wil... ... journalists plagiarize, many with abandon. Even advertising agencies and financial institutions plagiarize. The amount of material out there is so o... ...vernmental organizations (NGOs), trade unions, etc. Bedevilled by limited financial resources, they regard the new medium as a cost effective way of...

...Essays dedicated to the new media, doing business on the web, digital content, its creation and distribution, e-publishing, e-books, digital reference, DRM technology, and other related issues....

... be accessed through the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congr... ...n, and the Commons.” 2 For several years now I have been a columnist for the Financial Times’s “New Economy Policy Forum.” Portions of Chapter 5 and C... ...a result, the structure of the book is designed to facilitate self-selection based on inter- est. The first three chapters and the conclusion provide t... ...ntirely, decentralized to the people who actually might use the products and services that result. This is our innovation policy and it is increasingl... ...nd who knows what else. It is a network that produces useful information and services. Frequently, it does so at no cost to the user and without anyon... ...nited States, does not see intellectual property as a claim of natural right based on expended labor. Instead it is a temporary state-created monopoly... ...r daily actions you scrupulously ob- served the rights—all the rights—of the companies that have interests in the texts, tunes, images of celebrities,... ...uld be made, but subsequent changes would be harder and harder as people and companies built their activities around the rules that had been laid down... ..., the value of which increases as the network does. I write a column for the Financial Times, but I lack the fervor of the true enthusiast in the “Gre...

...ll depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent,...