Browsing by Author "Poynder, Richard"

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Enclosing the Digital Commons
(2003) Poynder, Richard
"There’s growing concern that aggressive use of intellectual property is threatening the development of the Internet. Many are drawing parallels to the 'enclosures' in pre-industrial Europe. Through this system, commonly held or unoccupied land was taken into private ownership, leading to considerable abuse. But is there really a threat? If so, why? And what are the implications?"
Reclaiming the Digital Commons
(2003) Poynder, Richard
"Today, there’s considerable concern that aggressive use of intellectual property—most notably copyright and patents—threatens to 'enclose' the open nature of the Internet and therefore privatize it by stealth. "The fears are twofold. First, critics argue, today’s overgenerous patent system will enable opportunistic companies to appropriate the Web’s infrastructure and transform the Internet’s free and open platform into a proprietary network. Second, ever more powerful copyright laws, coupled with copy-protection tools and industry consolidation, will enable a small group of media and information companies to exert increasingly monopolistic control over digital content."
The Role of Digital Rights Management in Open Access (Blog Entry)
(2005) Poynder, Richard
"Growing conviction that scientific progress will significantly benefit if scholarly articles and research papers are made freely available on the Web has given rise to the Open Access (OA) movement. While there is some awareness that OA articles may require digital rights management (DRM), there is currently only low-level interest in the topic, with many OA advocates maintaining that it has no relevance to OA. The issue is complicated by the fact that there are currently two ways in which research papers are made OA, each of which has different implications from a rights point of view."