Tag Archives | creative commons

State of the Commons

Business models for digital goods in the face of the ‘culture of free’?

By 10 December 2014 26

Piracy of digital goods is an issue that we have already addressed many times on this blog. Here is an additional post on the topic, which does not contain new material or analysis but which simply points you to two instructive resources that were recently published. First, there is this excellent video, produced by RetroReport.org, […]

Un livre devenu libre par emprunt? Le suites du plagiat de M. Houellebecq, prix Goncourt pour “La carte et le territoire”

By 5 December 2010 45

L’affaire du plagiat de M. Houellebecq, le prix Goncourt 2010, connaît des rebondissements inattendus. En septembre dernier, un journaliste révélait que certains passages de “La carte et le territoire”, le dernier roman de M. Houellebecq, plagient trois articles de Wikipedia (sur la mouche domestique, le politicien Frédéric Nihous et la ville de Beauvais). Ce n’est […]