Exponential Innovation
For more than forty years, the software development community has leveraged huge increases in computer chip performance and steady drops in chip prices to give consumers what they want: better [...]
Cablevision Lawsuit Didn’t Stop Innovation
Yesterday the Supreme Court declined to hear the television and movie producers' appeal from a Second Circuit decision which held that Cablevision's new Remote Server DVR did not violate copyright law. [...]
Third Verse, Same as the First? Open Gov Initiative, Phase 3
Phase three of the White House's Open Government Initiative ends this Sunday, and with it a tripartite experiment on receiving public comment about how to make government more open. This [...]
World Copyright Summit: What does gridlock have to do with copyright?
Recently, CISAC hosted the World Copyright Summit in Washington,DC. Having been to my share of intellectual property conferences, I didn't expect to hear anything new or interesting. And while some panels did indeed beat the dead horse [...]
IP Education — Gettin’ ’em Young
A few weeks ago I blogged about the various events that were held around town in conjunction with World IP Day on April 26. At one of the events, there [...]
When You’re Getting Software or Other Stuff on the ‘Net for Free, what are the Costs?
Come one, come all. ACT will be hosting a lunch event next Tuesday (June 23) at noon on privacy, free software, and government procurement. We’ll discuss “free” software (ie. no [...]