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Copyright often seems like a joke. I see ppl infringing it on here literally every few minutes, posting photos and videos that aren't theirs.But this will not last. Although technology
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What's the best movie or TV show ever made about invention? Not just the trials and tribulations of the inventor, but which brings alive the process of invention itself. Wow,
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Today, Matthew Taylor (@RSAMatthew) announced he's stepping down as head of @theRSAorg. It'll be interesting to see what happens next, as his 15 years in charge accelerated a decades-long phase
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I’m not a philosopher, but one line struck me: that academics are pressured to write for publication, not to be *read*. Since leaving an academic post last year, I’ve done
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Who invented the steam engine?The usual answer focuses on British inventors like Thomas Newcomen, or Thomas Savery. They were both active in the late 17thC.But there's also a much earlier,
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You see blue plaques dotted all over Britain, commemorating such-and-such a famous person who lived in a building. They seem, at first glance, just a nice reminder of history. But
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Because of colonialism and widespread printing, we know a lot about what Europeans thought of Asia in the 17th and 18th centuriesBut what did Asian visitors think of Europe? A
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A personal story about copyright, and why it needs reform.At Christmas time last year, my book publisher got in touch to just double-check that we had the rights to use
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Copyright lasts a long, long time.The Berne Convention, to which most of the world is signed up, stipulates a minimum duration of 50 years after the creator's *death*. It seems,
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When you think of environmentalist royals, you probably think of Prince Charles.But he really gets it all from his father, Prince Philip, who was at the forefront of the very
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