
One of the things I've come to appreciate over the past ten years or so of amateur stumbling round the intellectual property landscape is the amazing job that so many librarians do.

John Sulston and Joseph Stiglitz recently shared a platform at the launch of Manchester University’s new Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation and both warned of the dangers of unbalanced intellectual property laws and practices. From IP Watch:

I’ve been reading The Word of Mouth Manual: Vol 2 by Dave Balter of BzzAgent, which interested me because: 1) it is available free as a PDF although you can buy it for $45 through Amazon 2) he is one of the few people I know of who usefully differentiates betwe