Information as Property

Information is quickly becoming one of the main assets in corporate life. This paper attempts to study the relationship between the law and information. The questions posed are (1) can information be considered as property (2) How does this answer effect the legal practitioners and business (3) Is the legal point of view compatible with the everyday actions of business today? Keywords: Intellectual property, Information, Knowledge, BRT Keywords: AD, AM, B

OPEN ACCESS BARRIERS: AN ACTION RESEARCH

Abstract ICT has provided the infrastructure to enable easy access to scientific information. Despite this, libraries are suffering from the rising of journal subscriptions. Additionally, the structure of scholarly publications is creating a wasteful situation where publicly funded research is being paid for several times over. University libraries are struggling to deal with these new realities at the same time as they provide a level of service with acceptable access to publications. The work of librarians is being heavily affected by the influence of copyright and licensing which together are creating barriers to open access. The work in this chapter draws from an action research in progress undertaken by Lund's University in order to explore the barriers to open access to scientific research output in Sweden

Från vax tll moln : Musikens upphovsrätts- och teknikhistoria

Musikens teknik- och upphovsrättshistoria från första inspelningar till molnetSponsorship:Filip, FoU Nämnden</p

Från vax tll moln : Musikens upphovsrätts- och teknikhistoria

Musikens teknik- och upphovsrättshistoria från första inspelningar till molnetSponsorship:Filip, FoU Nämnden</p

ON THE INTERNET NOBODY CAN SEE YOUR CAPE: THE ETHICS OF ONLINE VIGILANTISM

The discussion of vigilantism has been most active in the legal discourse, in which the term has been classified historically and divided into classical vigilantism, neovigilantism, pseudo-vigilantism and faux-(Hine 1998). However, a major problem with this discourse is that, for the most part, online activity would not fit easily into the existing terminology. This paper will open up the discussion and merge the theoretical, social and technical discussion on vigilantism by drawing on its modern forms

Disruptive technology : effects of technology regulation on democracy

This work develops the thesis that there is a strong relationship between the regulation of disruptive technology and the Internet-based participatory democracy. In other words, attempts to regulate disruptive technology have an impact upon the citizen’s participation in democracy. This work will show what this relationship is and its effects on democratic participation. Taking its starting point from the recent theoretical developments in regulation, disruptive technology and role of ICT in participatory democracy, this work is the application of theoretical discussions on the field of the Internet-based participatory democracy. These theoretical discussions are used in the empirical exploration of six areas: virus writing and dissemination, civil disobedience in online environments, privacy and the role of spyware, the re-interpretation of property in online environments, software as infrastructure and finally state censorship of online information. The purpose of these studies is to explore the effects of these social and technical innovations upon the core democratic values of Participation, Communication, Integrity, Property, Access and Autonomy. The overall research question for this thesis is therefore: How do attempts to regulate disruptive technology affect Internetbased participatory democracy? The specific contribution of this thesis is the development of extended understanding of the way in which we regulate disruptive technology. This understanding helps us to better regulate that which is new and threatens that which is established. Additionally, the extended understanding in this field can then be applied to all domains where regulation of technology may occur. This thesis contributes towards a richer understanding in the research areas of e-democracy, technology regulation and disruptive technology.This work is licensed by the author and cover artist under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License www.creativecommons.or

Informational commons

This paper examines the theoretical and practical development of informational commons in the digitised and interconnected environment. This is done by looking at the theory behind intellectual property and licenses in their role of creating and maintaining the commons. This paper will also present the practical work in the form of describing a large-scale development project concerning the localisation of the creative commons licenses to the Swedish jurisdiction. The goal of this work is to provide practical and theoretical foundations in the study of the role of informational commons in the knowledge society

Open access barriers: An action research

ICT has provided the infrastructure to enable easy access to scientific information. Despite this, libraries are suffering from the rising of journal subscriptions. Additionally, the structure of scholarly publications is creating a wasteful situation where publicly funded research is being paid for several times over. University libraries are struggling to deal with these new realities at the same time as they provide a level of service with acceptable access to publications. The work of librarians is being heavily affected by the influence of copyright and licensing which together are creating barriers to open access. The work in this chapter draws from an action research in progress undertaken by Lund's University in order to explore the barriers to open access to scientific research output in Sweden