The Escalating Copyright Wars

Copyright wars and learning objects

One of the most serious threats to the development of the learning object economy as described by Downes (2002) is the consistent campaign by the controllers of copyright to undermine, and render inoperable, the public domain. The learning object economy is the system of learning object repositories, distribution systems and rights’ management that is currently being developed by a wide variety...

Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars

Copyright holds a fascination for members of the free and open source community. The copyleft nature of the GPL can exist only because copyright laws exist.1 This review considers William Patry's book “Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars”, and examines its argument that copyright laws are not fit for purpose.

Copyright in the networked world: gray copyright

Purpose – This paper uses an inductive approach to define “gray copyright.” It is needed to describe those situations in which the practical degree of copyright protection can best be measured in shades of risk rather than in simple terms of black and white. Design/methodology/approach – Two methods are used. One is an inductive definition builds up the term’s meaning example by example and lay...

The New Wars Debate:

The statin wars.

1 The Lancet. The statin wars: why AstraZeneca must retreat. Lancet 2003; 362: 1341. 2 Uretsky BG, Thygesen K, Armstrong PW, et al. Acute coronary findings at autopsy in heart failure patients with sudden death: results from the assessment of treatment with lisinopril and survival (ATLAS) trial. Circulation 2000; 102: 611–16. 3 Krum H, McMurray JJV. Statins and chronic heart failure: do we need...