Author Archives: John Helmer

Copyright infringement off the starboard bow: poetry and piracy

March 10, 2010 – 4:42 pm

In my recent post, The value chain strikes back: Google and the history of copyright,  I touched on the threat of internet piracy, which is a highly contentious issue at the moment throughout the digital industries. In researching that piece I came across some interesting historical sidelights on book piracy, which deserve more attention than [...]

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The value chain strikes back: Google and the history of copyright

February 18, 2010 – 3:15 pm

In an article in the London Review of Books in 1995 John Sutherland wrote: ‘Momentous changes in copyright law, such as those of 1710, 1842, 1890 and 1911, are preceded by periods of turmoil and radical uncertainty about the rights and wrongs of intellectual property. We are in such a period now.’
Sutherland could hardly have [...]

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Online publishing tech buzz 2010

January 13, 2010 – 9:29 am

Taking inspiration from the stars (currently obscured by a thick layer of snow-clouds over Brighton) we bring you the online publishing tech buzz for 2010: what’s up, what’s down – and what’s coming back for a second time around.
This isn’t completely a matter of personal prejudice. We’ve taken as a starting point the Gartner hype [...]

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Response to Online publishing, e-learning and knowledge management parts 1 & 2

December 23, 2009 – 4:38 pm

Thanks for all the positive comments about these posts, and especially to Steve Weissman, who contributed this short summary, which has a pleasing conciseness I failed to achieve in the original pieces:
‘… KM is a business practice, e-learning a teaching (learning) technique, online publishing a distribution mechanism. The commonality? The underlying enabling technologies for each are [...]

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Online publishing, e-learning and knowledge management – Part 2

December 17, 2009 – 10:17 am

The only thing holding us back from more convergence between e-learning, online publishing and knowledge management, is the lack of mutual understanding.

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