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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (35188)	8/23/2010 6:48:29 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

@artbrodsky: Great editorial (Free That Tenor Sax) on @copyright and orphan works from @nytimes. nyti.ms ------

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (35188)	8/23/2010 10:26:35 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	1 Recommendation Respond to of 46821

[IPR] The Real Reason for Germany's Industrial Expansion? By Frank Thadeusz \| Spiegel Online \| 08/18/2010 Did Germany experience rapid industrial expansion in the 19th century due to an absence of copyright law? A German historian argues that the massive proliferation of books, and thus knowledge, laid the foundation for the country's industrial might. Article and photo slide show: spiegel.de [fac: this article has been recommended to me today by multiple parties who have read the uplinked Comman as Air book review at #msg-26771726; in particular, a hat tip to forum member pltodms, whose suggestion sent me over the top to the point of actually reading it, and I concur with him that it merits mention here as a read by others; a hat tip also goes to Rudolf van der Burg on the Cook list, who received an interesting comment from Andrew Odlyzko, which I'm certain will appeal to our very own poster ftth, in noting (the following is a snippet of a longer message from Andrew): "I am very skeptical. There is no pointer to the original work by Hoeffner, so I can't check what he wrote, and also don't have time to dig up the information I do have about publication rates in the 19th century. The 1,000 books per year for mid-19th century Britain seems about right, but 14,000 for Germany seems far too high. There may be some confusion about what is being counted. In addition to the 1,000 books, Britain also published several thousand pamphlets per year in that period, so perhaps the comparison is between books for Britain and both books and pamphlets in Germany."/snip] FAC ------

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (35188)	8/27/2010 12:09:23 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

Interview: Lewis Hyde, author of Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership Mike Linksvayer \| August 27th, 2010 Excerpt: "It isn’t entirely true that Common as Air avoids addressing the piracy / unauthorized use option. After all, there’s a whole chapter called “Benjamin Franklin, Founding Pirate”! When Franklin ran away from his Boston printing apprenticeship, he broke the law and, in a sense, “stole” the craft knowledge that his brother had been passing on. More to the point, when Franklin was stationed in France after the Revolution, he encouraged British artisans to ignore their country’s anti-emigration laws and bring both machinery and know-how to America–clear acts of piracy from the British point of view." Complete: creativecommons.org see: #msg-26771726 ------