P. S.: Post Scriptum » copyright http://blog.pietrosperoni.it Pietro Speroni di Fenizio's web log Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:25:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Copyright © P. S.: Post Scriptum 2011 pietros@gmail.com (P. S.: Post Scriptum) pietros@gmail.com (P. S.: Post Scriptum) http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg P. S.: Post Scriptum http://blog.pietrosperoni.it 144 144 Pietro Speroni di Fenizio's web log P. S.: Post Scriptum P. S.: Post Scriptum pietros@gmail.com no no Ebooks, the next revolution. But this time is BIG! http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2008/11/22/ebooks-the-next-revolution-but-this-time-is-big/ http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2008/11/22/ebooks-the-next-revolution-but-this-time-is-big/#comments Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:21:41 +0000 Pietro http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2008/11/22/ebooks-the-next-revolution-but-this-time-is-big/ Another revolution is about to happen.

A revolution that is many times in size and importance bigger than the music revolution. I call it the e-book revolution.

In this moment a number of technologies are coming together:

On the one side OCR technologies are reaching a level of sophistication, where it is nearly as easy [...] Related posts:

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]]> http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2008/11/22/ebooks-the-next-revolution-but-this-time-is-big/feed/ 1 Blogging over the line http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/04/16/blogging-over-the-line/ http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/04/16/blogging-over-the-line/#comments Sat, 16 Apr 2005 08:17:17 +0000 Pietro http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/04/16/blogging-over-the-line/ I have been reading Boing Boing lately. It came with the feed reader of the mobile phone. I especially like it because the feed contains the complete article and not just an excerpt. Which, when you are reading a feed while being inside a bus, is handy. I really liked the series on the UN [...] No related posts.]]> http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/04/16/blogging-over-the-line/feed/ 0 On Artificial Scarcity http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/04/08/on-artificial-scarcity/ http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/04/08/on-artificial-scarcity/#comments Fri, 08 Apr 2005 11:31:10 +0000 Pietro http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/04/08/on-artificial-scarcity/ Some time ago I posted about how artificial scarcity applied to travellers. Today I read about Clay Shirky who has a hard time in copying his own material, of which he is copyholder, because modern tools have been adjusted not to make this copy feasible… to protect copyright. His comment was:

This is because copyright [...] No related posts.]]> http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/04/08/on-artificial-scarcity/feed/ 0 And I Patent War and Copyright the declaration of War http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/02/17/and-i-patent-war-and-copyright-the-declaration-of-war/ http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/02/17/and-i-patent-war-and-copyright-the-declaration-of-war/#comments Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:59:04 +0000 Pietro http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/02/17/and-i-patent-war-and-copyright-the-declaration-of-war/ Wikisource is a repository of open source materials. Various texts are present, all totally open source. This resources repository is necessary, as the commons are getting daily smaller. Well, browsing among the present texts I spotted: The declaration of war on Germany dated 1917.

We keep the document in this repository to give to all [...] No related posts.]]> http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/02/17/and-i-patent-war-and-copyright-the-declaration-of-war/feed/ 2