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29 Nov 09

The Imperfect Is the Enemy of the Good: Anticircumvention Versus Open Innovation

"I characterize a “DRM imperative” and explore the technical incompatibilities between regulation by code and exploration of code. We see DRM centralizing development and forcing the black-boxing of complementary media technology, in a widening zone as it mandates that protected media be played only on compliant devices, that those may output media content only to other compliant devices, etc. The home media network is thus progressively closed to open-source development.

Foreclosing open development costs us technically, economically, and socially. We lose predicted technological improvements, those of user-innovators (von Hippel) or disruptive technologies (Christensen) from outside the incumbent-authorized set, that could offer new options for content creators and audiences (such as better playback, library, mixing, and commerce options). We lose social and cultural opportunities for commons-based peer production.

In the full cost-benefit analysis of anticircumvention, the loss to open innovation would outweigh the gains from this imperfect mechanism of copyright enforcement. Treating code literally as law leaves the law with too many harmful side effects.
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Wendy Seltzer. 2009. "The Imperfect Is the Enemy of the Good: Anticircumvention Versus Open Innovation" ExpressO
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/wendy_seltzer/1
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06 May 08

Clay Shirky's Internet Writings

  • My new book, Here Comes Everybody: The
    Power of Organizing Without Organizations    , is coming out
    in February 2008, from Penguin Press. Here Comes
    Everybody     is about what happens when people are given the
    tools to do things together, without needing traditional
    organizational structures.

    It's coming out first in the
    US and the UK, and can be pre-ordered at booksellers
    everywhere    . (Later this year, there will be a Dutch, Portuguese,
    Chinese and Korean translations.)

    Along with the book, I
    am launching a Here
    Comes Everybody     blog    , designed to both chronicle and
    extend the themes of the book. I'm delighted to finally have to book
    out, and to be able to begin blogging about it. In addition, this site
    collects many of my older writings, from which many of the themes of
    the book arose.

    Thanks, as always, for reading,

    -clay
28 Jun 07

TED conference

  • Technology, Entertainment and Design - really energizing ideas - helaine on 2007-01-26
25 Jun 07

TED Blog

  • The TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference is an annual event where leading thinkers and doers gather for inspiration. (More at TED.com) The TEDBlog covers the same ground, on a rather more frequent basis.
13 Feb 06

TechCrunch

  • TechCrunch profiles and reviews new web 2.0 products and companies. TechCrunch is written by Michael Arrington.
08 Feb 06

MyStickies, Sticky Notes for the Web

  • To put it simply, MyStickies allows you to place little yellow squares of digital paper anywhere and everywhere you feel like in the whole wide web. Along with the ability to put sticky notes on webpages mystickies offers a powerful interface to browse, search, sort, edit and generally have a wonderfull time with your sticky notes from any computer that has internet access.
29 May 05

RSS Digest

Used this service to add the RSS feed from my Del.icio.us account to the USC Film Blog sidebar - iBlog. It's like Feedroll.
The link to the service is: http://www.bigbold.com/rssdigest/index.html
The link to their forums is: http://www.bigbold.com/rs

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21 Mar 05

A9.com > More Columns

  • A9.com searches more than the web—we have a library of columns that you can add to your column list (the list of buttons you see on the right of search results).
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