The concluding report of the ippr's intellectual property report is published today, and I'm a co-author. You can download a pdf here. One of its recommendations, of a private right to copy, has led to a good deal of press interest, mostly in yesterday's papers, but also in today's Guardian.
Update: the powers that be have taken the decision not to give this report away for free as a pdf, which is ill-judged in my view, given the subject matter. But if you want to download a pdf, there's a link to it in this BBC article.
the irony!
Posted by: jamie | November 02, 2006 at 03:18 PM
Tell me about it.
The god father of all things open, Lawrence Lessig, has also noticed the, ahem, irony...
Posted by: Will Davies | November 03, 2006 at 11:41 AM
It might be fairer to describe Richard M Stallman as "the god father of all things open." Stallman wrote the GNU manifesto in the early 1980s: CC licenses were inspired by the GNU GPL twenty years earlier, rather than vice versa.
And to my knowledge, Stallman has yet to endorse DRM. It sounds unlikely that he ever will, either.
Posted by: Andrew Orlowski | November 03, 2006 at 08:38 PM
I think it is stupid not to post the PDF on your report on the IPPR, since offering the electronic version for free will increase the requests for the printed version. (As a compromise solution, it seems that the electronic version will be sent to those who request it by email.)
Posted by: Pablo RodrÃguez | November 05, 2006 at 05:59 PM
hi will,
sometimes good things happen in spain, a judge just ruled that free music downloads are legal for own use, the whole story at the guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1938286,00.html
Posted by: jaron | November 06, 2006 at 09:11 AM