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Consumentenbond goes Twitter (and hopefully learns from it)

Sjoerd Tuinema | 13 December 2009, 1:47 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , ,

The Dutch consumers union, the ‘Consumentenbond’, wants to reach new audiences. With their monthly magazine, readers can figure out which broom or coffee machine is the best buy, often leaving out impurities of production methods (well, not always). This time, noticed by a friend, they announced a debate to be held on Twitter. The topic would be

Changing Turn in Copyright Debate: Cultural Industry is to Move

Harro Heijboer | 21 October 2009, 11:51 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , ,

Many theorist have already expressed their concern with the current copyright system; Simon Frith (1987), Lawrence Lessig (2002), Yochai Benkler (2005), Hal R. Varian (2005), Chris Anderson (2009) and many others. A lot of their arguments are based on cultural development and innovation. Argument from pro copyright organizations on the other hand are not about cultural development or innovation, but…