The document discusses the history of copyright and its impact on creativity. It notes that in 1774, the Donaldson v. Beckett case established the idea of a "free culture" by limiting copyright to a set number of years. However, over time copyright duration continued to be extended, limiting creative works entering the public domain. The document argues that current copyright and technology regulations have led to a society with increasingly less freedom and one where creativity and innovation are highly controlled.
Livability is a concept that has enjoyed tremendous popularity in recent years. The Federal Highway Administration established a formal “Livability Initiative” and in 2010, published a guidebook to educate transportation planning and design professionals.
So how are we doing? Are we improving the health and safety of the traveling public?
Even with the enormous amount of data showing direct and tangible connections between street design and public health and safety (i.e. livability), bad design continues to show itself on a regular basis on our street networks.
If good design promotes livability, then bad design must promote the opposite of livability…killability.
We can do better! Help put an end to dangerous design and save some lives!
This presentation was originally delivered during the 2014 National Planning Conference in Atlanta, GA.
The various movements based on digital openness – free software, open content, open data, open science, open government etc. – have made huge strides in recent years, and transformed many aspects of the modern world dramatically. But that is just the beginning. The key drivers of openness – the shift from analogue to digital, and global connectivity – imply much more: digital abundance. And that, in its turn, requires us to re-examine ancient intellectual monopolies born of analogue scarcity.
THE ANTI-PATENT MANIFESTO
We are the anti-patent manifesto.
Our only reason for existence is to save people from wasting their time in order to be baptised as “inventors”.
Livability is a concept that has enjoyed tremendous popularity in recent years. The Federal Highway Administration established a formal “Livability Initiative” and in 2010, published a guidebook to educate transportation planning and design professionals.
So how are we doing? Are we improving the health and safety of the traveling public?
Even with the enormous amount of data showing direct and tangible connections between street design and public health and safety (i.e. livability), bad design continues to show itself on a regular basis on our street networks.
If good design promotes livability, then bad design must promote the opposite of livability…killability.
We can do better! Help put an end to dangerous design and save some lives!
This presentation was originally delivered during the 2014 National Planning Conference in Atlanta, GA.
The various movements based on digital openness – free software, open content, open data, open science, open government etc. – have made huge strides in recent years, and transformed many aspects of the modern world dramatically. But that is just the beginning. The key drivers of openness – the shift from analogue to digital, and global connectivity – imply much more: digital abundance. And that, in its turn, requires us to re-examine ancient intellectual monopolies born of analogue scarcity.
THE ANTI-PATENT MANIFESTO
We are the anti-patent manifesto.
Our only reason for existence is to save people from wasting their time in order to be baptised as “inventors”.
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65. Jonny Appleseed (1955) 20,000 Leagues (1954) Cinderella (1950) Alice in Wonderland (1951) Pinocchio (1940)
66. Sleeping Beauty (1959) Sleepy Hollow (1958) Paul Bunyon (1958) Jonny Appleseed (1955) 20,000 Leagues (1954) Cinderella (1950) Alice in Wonderland (1951) Pinocchio (1940)
67. Jungle Book (1967) Kidnapped (1960) Sleeping Beauty (1959) Sleepy Hollow (1958) Paul Bunyon (1958) Jonny Appleseed (1955) 20,000 Leagues (1954) Cinderella (1950) Alice in Wonderland (1951) Pinocchio (1940)
68. The Little Mermaid (1989) Jungle Book (1967) Kidnapped (1960) Sleeping Beauty (1959) Sleepy Hollow (1958) Paul Bunyon (1958) Jonny Appleseed (1955) 20,000 Leagues (1954) Cinderella (1950) Alice in Wonderland (1951) Pinocchio (1940)
69. Hunchback (1996) Beauty and the Beast (1991) The Little Mermaid (1989) Jungle Book (1967) Kidnapped (1960) Sleeping Beauty (1959) Sleepy Hollow (1958) Paul Bunyon (1958) Jonny Appleseed (1955) 20,000 Leagues (1954) Cinderella (1950) Alice in Wonderland (1951) Pinocchio (1940)
70. Mulan (1998) Hunchback (1996) Beauty and the Beast (1991) The Little Mermaid (1989) Jungle Book (1967) Kidnapped (1960) Sleeping Beauty (1959) Sleepy Hollow (1958) Paul Bunyon (1958) Jonny Appleseed (1955) 20,000 Leagues (1954) Cinderella (1950) Alice in Wonderland (1951) Pinocchio (1940)
156. “ [Y]our site contains information providing the means to circumvent AIBO-ware's copy protection protocol constituting a violation of the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act .”
198. If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today’s ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete stand-still today.
199. The solution . . . is patenting as much as we can. . . . A future start-up with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose. That price might be high: Established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors.
200. The solution . . . is patenting as much as we can. . . . A future start-up with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose. That price might be high: Established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors.