Eben Moglen

I am not particularly sympathetic to Kim Dotcom personally; but: Intellectual Property is illegitimate, anti-social, immoral. We should oppose its enforcement, both within states and in international contexts. I am reminded of Eban Moglen's "dot-communist manifesto" of 2003, worth a read: https://moglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/dcm.html There's also the matter of the USA being able to enforce its legal norms on people living in other countries, via instruments like extradition but also sanctions for less-friendly world states.

For anyone interested, I highly recommend _Theory of the Leisure Class_, in which Veblen developed the notion: http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/LCS/theoryleisureclass.pdf

>Browsing the web without an ad blocker is a miserable experience. That is your experience. Mine is the opposite. >Users who have never tried or don't know how to set one up would be delighted. Perhaps. "I would prefer not to." — Bartleby, The Scrivener https://moglen.law.columbia.edu/LCS/bartleby.pdf

i think the gator ruling might cover this: https://moglen.law.columbia.edu/CPC/archive/eyeball/16GATO.html

E-book: * https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/833 * http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/LCS/theoryleisureclass.pdf

this http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/LCS/theoryleisureclass.pdf ?

Not really http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/lu-18.pdf

It's more nuanced than hand-waving away anyone that wants to talk about copyright reform with neo-capitalist 'everyone will choose to be a freeloader' hyperbole. "If you could feed everyone on earth at the cost of baking one loaf and pressing a button, what would be the moral case for charging more for bread than some people could afford to pay? This represents the difficulty at which we find ourselves straining at the opening of the twenty-first century." --- Eben Moglen, speech he gave in 2003 - refer: http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/maine-speech.html

A transcript for Eben Moglen's talk is available at http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/berlin-keynote.html

The GPL has been enforced by the FSF / Eben Moglen repeatedly and even defended in court by other companies (1)(2). To quote Moglen: > Despite the FUD, as a copyright license the GPL is absolutely solid. That’s why I’ve been able to enforce it dozens of times over nearly ten years, without ever going to court. [...] http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/lu-12.pdf PDF The claim however has to come from the copyright owner, not a third party that attempts vigilante-style justice like the disgruntled employee. The employee should signal the license breach to the original authors. ---- 1. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/02/27/gpl_enforcement_goes_to_court… 2. https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/first-us-lawsuit-to-test-gp…

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville (of Moby Dick fame.) Incredibly well-written and hilarious short story about an apathetic office worker. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartleby,_the_Scrivener http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/LCS/bartleby.pdf

Eben Moglen made this point during the first crypto wars, in 1999: http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/yu-encrypt.html ("The right to speak PGP is the right to speak Navajo")

Better URL: http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/LCS/theoryleisureclass.pdf [For me, anyway, because gutenberg.org blocks VPNs.]

Eben Moglen's arguments are quite convincing. His talk titled "Die Gedanken Sind Frei"[1] really strengthened my convictions in favor of free software. [1] http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/berlin-keynote.html

>The group claims that the patents violate the First Amendment by restricting the free exchange of ideas on human body parts. It will be interesting to see this argument being handled in the Supreme Court. If looking for a specific gene is patentable, it comes very well into the definition of patenting a purely mental operation. In a comment about patents two days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5540438), I linked to a talk which also brought up the fist Amendment issue with patents, and how it connect to software patents. You can also just read it (and thus jump directly to the related parts) in this transcript: http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/twiki/bin/view/LawNetSoc/BilskiAndBeyon…

Ethics and design guy here-- I think this is one of the most, "purposeful" articles I've seen in forever if you don't mind the pun. (I'm from Utah). I'm asking myself the question of fundamentally why UI designers are making decisions to include the, "tasteful delay" and its ultimately as the article points out prioritizing, "delightful presentations" for, "tools that ultimately serve the users purposes most effectively." I don't think I have to preach to a converted choir here about that but I'm reminded of Thorstein Veblen's famous book and I wonder; at a deeper level isn't misanthropic to reduce software to, "tools?" Lumiere created motion pictures and we told stories. We invented the interactive motion picture and we jerry-rigged into an automated office suite. Outside of the very sexy Alan Kay-Dan Ingalls fringe computer interfaces of all stripes descended from that very idiosyncratic paradigm. I wonder what crazy shit Ted Nelson is building with Claude right now. Sweet fuck. https://moglen.law.columbia.edu/LCS/theoryleisureclass.pdf

Gaming has been addressed for years by others as it pertains to learning and the future. There are also others working in areas that are proving very useful. (one of the best videos I've seen) http://www.phibetaiota.net/2010/09/video-visions-of-the-gamepocalypse-… "Serious games" http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~rich/courses/imgd404x-c11/playable.html http://www.gamesforchange.org Child-driven education http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/ Music + hands-on creative work http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/s_543015.html There's an incredible story (inspiring & practical) of a boy without healthy legs gaining access to salvaged computers and free software to apply his graphics skills to pull his way out of the slums....it's less than 3/4 of the way through this speech by Eben Moglen called "Before and After IP: Ownership of Ideas in the 21st Century" http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/audio/DSG-CUNY-BeforeAndAfterIP.mp3 I've been collecting a ton of related links and posting them at http://re-configure.org/drupal/node/33