In the last week a major report has been released in the UK on the state of IP and economic growth. This is really quite significant because what it serves to do is to look at the issues of copyright and patenting not from the subjective point of view of corporations in the content industry, [...]
The movement to mobile is incredible, isn’t it? I have been reading up on data relating to the growth of mobile over the last couple of days so that I can deliver a reasonably coherent lecture on a number of issues relating to mobile to first year communication students at UoW. At the same time [...]
Systems evolve over time. Look at the eco-system that drives most of the western world. It has been around for a relatively short time in historical terms. It is a sub-set of capitalism that may now be showing signs of weakness as a continuing driver for wealth creation. I’m talking about consumerism. Consumerism is assumed [...]
We are living in a constantly changing world. More of those changes are taking place than we have ever experience before, and for some reason people are shocked by much of the change. But we shouldn't be. Much of what is taking place should not really be surprising, because it is largely predictable. All this [...]
OK Go is a band that had a massive video on YouTube a couple years ago, featuring exercise machines…. You would have had to be disconnected from the world to have missed it. Their self made video got them a record deal, their record went to #1 around the world and it looked like they [...]
Back in 2002 an opinion piece was published in the Christian Science Monitor debunking the concept of Al Qaida as the “top brand” in terrorism, and how, in doing creating this myth, western security forces were creating a rod for their own backs. The article went on to talk about the phenomenon of “exaggerated enemies” [...]
The Music Industry continuously claims that it has been harmed by file sharing. Yet it has also, failed to provide empirical evidence of the actual damage. Whilst we disagree with their modus operandi in criminalizing their consumers, we do find that there would appear to be a difference in the reality of music sales [...]
Setting the Scene. Consultants are people/firms that are hired to divorce an organisations internal politics from a result and quite often, consultants bring with them a differential focused expertise in the area requiring their expert attention. There’s an accepted modus operandi for consultancy firms in business, “When you get hired, look for more [...]
Sometimes you can read a paragraph and skip right over important words. It is not till later that something in the brain clicks and says “Whoa”! The other day I quoted a paragraph from wikileaks: In 2007 a select handful of the wealthiest countries began a treaty-making process to create a new global [...]
I was slammed into reality the other day by the fact that a Solicitor that I have known for many years who dealt in the area of the law known as Trade marks which falls under the auspices of Intellectual Property Law, got some basic knowledge about the Australian Copyright Legislation wrong. (No 'P' it's [...]