The war against the kids

I’ve written about the complicated relationship between copyrights and creativity for Morgenbladet. The text is in Norwegian, but you can try Google Translate if you are interested. One remark – in the original article I wrote that the European Parliament had voted to extend copyrights for music from 50 to 95 years.  The result is … Continue reading »

The law of the internet – Swedish pirates, copyrights and the EU

For your copyright/freedom geeks out there, wake up, these are the days! Some major trials are taking place in several countries, they might change the way we are using the internet/consuming content. I’ll give you some links from the few cases I’ve followed lately, I’m sure there are many more (please send me links for … Continue reading »

Follow the Brussels Twestival tonight

I’m doing some blogging and twittering for the Brussels Twestival today, just came back from the European Parliament where Mikhail Gorbatchev, Prince Albert II from Monaco and Hans-Gert Pöttering talked about Peace With Water. Today I will test out liveblogging with CoverItLive for the first time, seems like a very handy tool for live reporting. … Continue reading »