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 →

European Parliament – music copyright extended to 70 years

I’m disappointed, but not surprised. The EP has voted to extend music copyrights 20 more years compared to today (50 years). The original suggestion was an extension from 50 to 95 year, but that got changed during the voting in Strasbourg today. I’ve written an article about copyrights vs. creativity that will appear in tomorrow’s … 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 →

The ultimate wedding hit

I went to an amazing Norwegian-Mexican wedding for my brother-in-law recently that were situated in the mountains of Hemsedal, a Norwegian ski resort. It might sound like a strange combination, and when you add that 16 different nationalities were represented, you get the whole global picture. The big question is – how do you get … Continue reading →